Social Networks for Writers and Readers

TheBookDesigner.com, a popular blog on book design, book marketing, and the future of the book. Joel is also the founder of an online training course called “The Self-Publishing Roadmap.

Guest Topic: How to Evangelize Amazon’s Best Reviewers, by Dr. Bojan Tunguz

Finally, TheInDesigner is a useful website to learn how to create book-length documents with InDesign.

As Marilyn Monroe said, “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”

I’ll give you a power tip about the early stages of a book. After I’ve taken my best shot at an outline, I place a copy on Google Docs and invite a few million close friends to read it and send me feedback. This is called crowdsourcing feedback. I do not allow comments in the Google Docs document because there are usually too many. Instead, people

Websites. Writer.ly is a new company that helps writers

Figment also enables writers to share their works with readers. By facilitating this sharing, it helps readers to discover new writers and helps writers to obtain feedback. Figment’s emphasis is on teen fiction.

Alvear coined in his book Make a Killing on Kindle.