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Entries for July, 2008

A Little Wordle, Anyone?


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Taking a Short Break

Life.
It has a way of sneaking up on you, doesn’t it?
I’m going to take a short break from The Writer’s Technology Companion. Not more than a week or so, just long enough to rethink some things.
I have enough posts to keep this site on auto-pilot for a while, but I’m starting to think […]

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Index a Book Using Word and Excel

I recently published an academic book (Anthropology at the Dawn of the Cold War: The Influence of Foundations, McCarthyism and the CIA, since you asked) and one of the tasks I was responsible for was creating an index for my book. Yes, I could have asked them to send it out to a professional indexer, […]

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Promote Your Work on Amazon with Amazon Connect

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could stand in the bookstore next to your books and recommend them directly to anyone who stopped to take a look? You could answer questions, talk about how you came to write it, mention the sequel you’re working on, and just generally connect with your readers. Wouldn’t it be […]

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Words Count: Online Readability Analysis

You know your word count. But how do you know if your words count?
Words Count is an online readability analyzer, offering you more information about your prose than you could possibly imagine. Cut and paste in any sample of text (up to 20 pages) and Words Count will give you back the percentage of your […]

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