Recent Posts Tagged With 'authors'

• Twitter Users Missing the Point with Automated Follow Responses

  Posted on Monday November 17th, 2008 at 19:32 in Marketing, spam, authors, social, brand, twitter, platform, social-media, social-networks, social networks and media

  Like many of you, I use Twitter. (@chriswebb) I use it for a variety of reasons, both personal and professional but have always thought of it as a very ‘personal’ tool. By that I mean ......

• Author Charles Petzold on Deadlines and Letting Go

  Posted on Thursday May 22nd, 2008 at 14:24 in publishing, authors, deadlines, alan turing, computer-science, charles-petzold

  Author Charles Petzold discussing our forthcoming book, The Annotated Turing: In an ideal imaginary world, a book is finished only when the author is fully satisfied that every word and comma is perfect. In the real world, that doesn’t work. Th...

• Guy Kawaskai on Darren Rowse on Seth Godin

  Posted on Tuesday May 20th, 2008 at 15:07 in authors, author, problogger, guy kawasaki, seth-godin

  This week, Guy Kawasaki interviewed Wiley Author and creator of Problogger.net Darren Rowse on on his Sun Innovation blog.  (It was nice to see a little plug for Darren’s and Chris Garrett’s Problogger book as well.) If you have ever see...

• Why Word of Mouth Matters

  Posted on Tuesday May 6th, 2008 at 15:36 in authors, word of mouth, social-media, e-content, gary vaynerchuk, social networks and media, winetv

  I have held this in for too long, and it is time that I finally admit it to myself, and to you. I am a Vayniac. Seriously, Wine TV is great, but trust me - the real gold is on Gary Vaynerchuk’s blog. If you don’t already read it, start. ...

• Publishing Contracts - Understanding Reserve for Returns

  Posted on Monday January 7th, 2008 at 14:45 in publishing, authors, contracts, returns, reserve, publishers

  I had a conversation with an author recently about the Reserve line on his royalty statement, and thought other authors might benefit from a quick primer. Books sold to most resellers - stores like Barnes and Noble and Borders for example - are retur...

• The Book Proposal: Tips for Writing a Winning Book Proposal

  Posted on Tuesday November 27th, 2007 at 15:34 in publishing, authors, writers, published, publishers, book-proposal

  You will find quite a bit about writing winning book proposals on this site - but you wont find them all in one place. All the posts are tagged book-proposal, but I thought it would be a good idea to group them together. Keep in mind I work in tech...