Update: The New Astonishing Post

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If you’ve been wondering about this second prolonged silence here it’s because I’ve been working on a new WordPress version of my popular art and lifestyle tumblr – The Astonishing Post. What is The Astonishing Post you ask? Well, I think the best way to explain that is by simply quoting the about page I [...]

Feedly to Replace Google Reader as Best RSS Option

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Like many of you the death of Google Reader came as somewhat of a surprise this week, resulting in a mad scramble to hunt down a comprable replacement. In my case, I went with Feedly to replace Google Reader and in this post I’d like to talk about why I think it’s the best option [...]

Interview with Top Blogger Oliver Dale of WPLift.com

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Oliver Dale is a UK blogger who runs multiple highly successful WordPress powered blogs. He’s someone I personally work with (as a contributor for his blog WPLift.com) and I respect him a great deal. I reached out to Oliver a few weeks back and asked if he would be willing to do an interview for [...]

Update: Two Novels, New Clients, A Fashion Blog & An Alien Invasion

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Hey everyone, sorry about the two week gap between posts! To say that the last several weeks have been busy for me would be an incredible understatement. So what you’re getting today is an update on the work I’ve been doing, new projects on the horizon, and some upcoming posts I’m extremely excited to share [...]

9 Fun Urban Fantasy Books & Series

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When it comes to fiction I’m an enormous fan of just about anything magic related. I grew up reading a lot of high fantasy which typically takes place in a time period associated with the past, if not always our own world’s past. And like many lovers of fantasy I’ve often imagined how cool it [...]

How-to: Write an Introductory E-mail That Gets You Hired

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One of the things I love about blogging is that it’s a pretty laid back profession. Besides the fact that the dress code is widely open to interpretation (aka: non-existent) and 99.9% of the jobs you get are completed from the comfort of your own home, the process for getting hired can be extremely quick [...]

Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky

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Years ago I made it a habit to always have a notebook on hand for jotting down ideas. Ideas about anything really, but as a writer I naturally tended to gravitate towards ideas about what I was working on or wanted to work on in the future. I quickly discovered that for anyone paying attention [...]

9 Job Boards Every Blogger Should Be Using (And a Few to Avoid)

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It should come as no surprise that there is a constant high demand for quality content online. Businesses, blogs, and blogs as businesses have all discovered that content marketing is one of the most effective ways to drive traffic and generate targeted sales leads. As a result, professional bloggers are needed in abundance. Unfortunately, good [...]

Interview with Top Blogger Kevin Muldoon

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Kevin Muldoon has been working online since 2000. That’s 13 years of the most tumultuous and rapid development the web has seen thus far. He has created and run a wide variety of websites (beginning before blogging was even a thing) and now he spends his days writing books and blogging for some of the [...]

Self Publishing eBooks: The Free & Easy Way

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Getting published has never been as easy as it is today. While it’s true that there’s still a barrier to entry in the print world, for nearly a decade now anyone with a computer and access to the internet has been able to freely publish their work online. Now, it’s just as easy to self [...]