Author Archives: Claire Webber

Announcing the New and Improved Swenson Book Development Blog Email Subscription

Announcing the New and Improved Swenson Book Development Blog Email Subscription

If you aren’t already receiving email updates from the Swenson Book Development, LLC blog, we’d like to invite you to subscribe using the form on the sidebar. If you are already receiving updates in your inbox, we highly suggest switching to our new format! Swenson Book Development has switched to Mailchimp as our official emailContinue Reading

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Enter “Nook Press”, Barnes & Nobels’ Self-Publishing Platform

Enter “Nook Press”, Barnes & Nobels’ Self-Publishing Platform

Not content to let Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing be the powerhouse of the self-publishing world, Nook Media (a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble) is rolling out Nook Press, its own self-publishing platform for eBooks. What completely sets Nook Press apart from Kindle Direct Publishing is the integrated feature of composing, editing and formatting your bookContinue Reading

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Adding a Profile Image to your WordPress Comments

Adding a Profile Image to your WordPress Comments

Although not all WordPress templates support profile images in the comments, when a profile image is allowed, wouldn’t you rather have another chance to show off your online identity’s ‘look’? Putting a face to your brand helps an author reach readers. To see if you have an associated image, log-in to your WP dashboard andContinue Reading

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Is Medium a Step Towards Solving the Collaboration Conundrum?

Is Medium a Step Towards Solving the Collaboration Conundrum?

Writing is primarily a solitary activity. But, as Stephen King wrote in On Writing, “Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open”. At some point you will share your work with someone for editing – and that’s where the art of writing gets technologically tricky. Microsoft Word has a well-documented compatibility issue betweenContinue Reading

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March Brings a New Facebook Timeline Layout to Your Page

March Brings a New Facebook Timeline Layout to Your Page

Your Facebook timeline is about to look different for spring 2013 – changes to profile pages are happening now, so don’t be suprised if next time you log in you see something a little different! The updated timeline layout banishes seperate boxes for friends, maps, photos and applications and replaces them with text tabs. TheContinue Reading

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