The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- AuthorRise, Social Network Analytics System for Authors and Self-Publishers, Shows Promise
Now there’s a new metrics program that is designed specifically for authors and over time will provide analytics for a range of social media networks on one simple dashboard. This new application is appropriately called AuthorRise and at least while it’s in Beta it’s free to use.
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- How to Use Visual Marketing to Sell Books
Visual marketing may seem foreign to an author, after all we specialize in words, right? Changes in social media have shifted slightly to a more visual world with Pinterest, Instagram, and the wild popularity of YouTube.
- Photoshop Tutorial: Elegant Glossy Text Effect
This tutorial will show you how to use Photoshop’s Layer Styles and some simple Brush settings to create an elegant, slick text effect.
- How To Run The Best Virtual Meeting Ever
My colleague Ken Perlman shares his tricks for running incredibly effective and enjoyable meetings – from 3,000 miles away.
- Hindsight is 20/20: My First Year in Self-Publishing
I’d say that’s probably the most accurate account for most self-published authors who went into the publishing and writing industry as blindly as I did. They say that life is a rat race. Self-publishing is a rat race where every wrong turn means you get electrocuted and when you do find a scrap of cheese, you have to fight all the other rats in a switch blade match to the death. Okay, maybe not that bad, but close enough.