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By Denise Wakeman

12 Digital Publishing Tools The Experts Recommend

To celebrate the 2 year anniversary of The Future of Ink, we asked our expert writers to tell us about their favorite digital publishing tools they’ve discovered in the last six months or so.

If you are looking for tools to help you publish, curate and create digital content, you’ll find 12 terrific tools to check out in this article.

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Filed Under: Tools Tagged With: apps, digital publishing, publishing tools

By Justine Schofield

Crowdfunding and The Publishing Process – A Match Made In Literary Heaven

by Justine Schofield

The funny thing about publishing is your work is never done. Example, the publishing process in a nutshell: write, build an author platform, market, publish, market, sell books, market, sell more books, then…market some more.

Crowdfunding and the Publishing Process - A Match Made in Literary Heaven

Once a writer finishes a manuscript (and we all thought writing was the hard part), the real work of putting together a publishing team and marketing themselves and their book begins. And let’s face it, this part never really ends.

So, why not put more of an emphasis on marketing before publication? Crowdfunding is a growing trend that helps authors to do just that, fitting perfectly into the publishing process.

Although crowdfunding might not make publishing easier, at the very least it does make the process a bit more streamlined.

Picture a new publishing process: write, build an author platform, crowdfund, publish, market, sell books…well, you know the rest. At this point you might be wondering, how does this one extra step make a difference? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Tools Tagged With: crowdfunding, self publishing

By Nina Amir

8 Reasons To Use Scrivener To Write And Produce Your Books

8 Reasons to Use Scrivener to Write and Produce Your Booksby Nina Amir

If you’re like me, you’re always looking for a better and easier way—which means a more effective way—to get your writing projects finished and keep them organized.

But what if you could go straight from writing to publishing your work? That would make life a lot simpler, right?

It’s possible.

The tool you want to use is Scrivener. I’ve just begun using it for most of my writing and blogging projects, and I’m about to test out its publishing capabilities, too. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Tools Tagged With: Scrivener, write a book, writing tool

By Joan Stewart

7 Tools to Create Killer Headlines

by Joan Stewart

7 Tools to Create Killer Headlines

On average, 8 of 10 people never make it past your headline or title.

That’s because headlines are usually an afterthought–slapped onto an article, a press release or a blog post after you’ve  spent an hour or two painstakingly writing it, rewriting, proofreading and correcting errors.

By the time you’re done with all that, you’re exhausted. So you write the first headline thing that comes to mind. In my work as a publicity expert, a writing coach a former newspaper editor, I’ve identified five major problems with headlines and titles.

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Filed Under: Tools Tagged With: copywriting, Headlines, killer headlines

By Lou Bortone

Five Fab Video Tools to Make a Bigger Impact Online

Five Fab Video Tools to Make a Bigger Impact Onlineby Lou Bortone

We’re all getting bombarded with messages, and the barrage keeps on coming.  So how do you break through, stand out, get noticed and reach your peeps?  You’ve got to do something more engaging than the usual methods!

Video messaging is perfect for this, since it’s so much more personal and unique.  And there’s no need to set up a lot of equipment or do a big production.  Some of my favorite “video engagement” tools are easy and inexpensive to use.

Here are my five faves video tools:

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Filed Under: Tools Tagged With: online video, video marketing, video tools

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