Alexvox

Author's details

Name: Alex Myers
Date registered: June 9, 2012
URL: http://alexvox.com

Latest posts

  1. Free Writing Stuff — April 20, 2013
  2. Using technology to help write a book. — March 23, 2013
  3. Time Change B2 is Here! — March 10, 2013
  4. How Many Books Are They Selling? — February 26, 2013
  5. Doing Research for a Book — February 20, 2013

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Apr 20

Free Writing Stuff

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I’ve got to start with these writing memes .  .  . (right-click your mouse and “save picture as” on anything you want to save).     As much as I like Captain Picard he is merely pointing out the obvious.             Whereas these Avengers are pointing at me and their …

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Mar 23

Using technology to help write a book.

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I love writing books and I love technology.  It seems like mash-up waiting to happen. I like writing my outline and first drafts out in longhand. I have dozens of notebooks filled with books, stories, pictures, diagrams, maps and outlines.  I’ve gone through a myriad of styles and kinds, some romantic and fun like the …

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Mar 10

Time Change B2 is Here!

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Today I finally got “Time Change B2″ out which is book two in my time travel series.  I think a lot of “book two’s” start out as bloated “book one’s”.  I remember trying to cut book one and being at 135,000 words and still having more to say. So I went to Office Max splurged …

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Feb 26

How Many Books Are They Selling?

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There is a way to tell how many copies of a book an author is selling  by looking at their Amazon book page.  Why is this important?  Market research? Curiosity?  A tool to help one dream? To Inspire?  Whatever your reason there is a way to tell approximate sales. Here is your Rosetta stone, under …

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Feb 20

Doing Research for a Book

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I received this question on the Amazon Sales Page for my book “Time Change Book One: The Jump”. It was under the Forums section near the bottom of the page, “discussions”. “I was wondering how the writer learned to know and research real people who would have loved it that time and place in civil …

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Feb 10

Using a Treadmill Desk To Save My Life

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I am predisposed to feel guilty.  I never feel like I give enough attention to the important things in my life; work, health, family, and spirituality.  Sounds like a time management problem doesn’t it? I do know this, if I want to spend the time it takes every day to be successful, it takes a lot of …

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Feb 02

I Love When Reviews Look Like This!

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Wow!  What a review for my new book “Time Change Book One the Jump” . . . Time Change – Book One: The Jump, By Alex Myers – A Review Posted: Saturday, February 02, 2013 by Rain Stickland Time Change Book One: The Jump by Alex Myers ASIN: B00B52SOU0 Official Author Bio [Alex Myers is an …

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Jan 27

It Only Took Me 14 Years To Write This Book.

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My new time travel book is out Time Change Book One: The Jump. It started out as a way to woo my wife, then girlfriend, Renata.  There was nothing veiled about it.  The protagonist was me, my love interest was her, her father and brother were in it   We lived in Dallas at the time, …

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Dec 02

14 Tips for Good Kindle Cover Design « humblenations

14 Tips for Good Kindle Cover Design «From humblenations.   14 Tips for Good Kindle Cover Design I have been a professional graphic designer for more years than I can now remember and have designed more things than I care to name (but will): T-shirts, CD covers, packaging, Ebay listings, websites, flyers, posters, letterheads, signage … …

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Dec 02

Best Book Editors on Twitter – GalleyCat

Here is a list of Book editors on Twitter it’s from GalleyCat The First Word on the Book Publishing Industry They also have lists: If you are looking for more people to follow, check out our Best Literary Agents on Twitter directory, our Best Book Editors on Twitter list, our Best Book Publicity and Marketing …

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Jun 24

Granny’s 50 Tips on Social Media via The Marketing Nut

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50 Tips From Granny’s Social Heart to Yours! 1. If ya’ ain’t got nothin nice, useful or relevant to say then shut yer dang yapper. 2. Is social media really as hard as you make it? Be a friend to get a friend. Speak when spoken to otherwise sit there, smile, be kind and don’t …

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Jun 23

Famous Self-Publishers | How To Self Publish and Sell Your Books

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Though it took technology to spread it to the masses, self-publishing has a long in 1797 Austen tried to self publishand distinguished history, as this anecdote from Alison Baverstock’s book The Naked Author: A Guide To Self Publishing, illustrates: “In 1797, a manuscript was submitted to a London publisher by the proud father of an …

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Jun 11

It’s time to get pinning: 5 benefits of a marketing campaign that includes Pinterest | Novel Publicity

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By Sarah Tharp Pinterest is a social networking site with a twist. After launching a beta version in March of 2010, it is now the third largest social networking site and continues to grow. Users create their own collections to which they can post photos related to different themes. Other users can re-pin photos they …

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Jun 11

Frustrated? Why You’re Wasting Your Time With Facebook & Twitter

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Frustrated? Why You’re Wasting Your Time With Facebook & Twitter By Jim Kukral It totally amazes me how many people focus only on Facebook and Twitter for their marketing. You know what? There’s a social media network that I use that gives me a 1000 times better results than those. You know what the network …

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Jun 10

From the Website “Makes Me Think” Some thinks to make you think . . ..

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Today in downtown San Diego, I watched a blue collar Mexican man get harassed for being Mexican. It was a blatant act of discrimination. And the man actually began crying. As he left the office building, he took off his jacket. His t-shirt underneath read, “I love the USA!” MMT Today, I interviewed a woman …

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