Archive for June, 2008

Vidcast: a new tool for authors

There’s a new player in the game of author promotion: Vidcasts.
A vidcast is similar to a podcast (audio only) except there’s picture to go with the sound. I haven’t seen many authors doing this yet, but I really love the idea! Perhaps that’s why I think RomanceNovel.tv is so awesome. The way I see it, [...]

Mind Boggling Author Websites

I’ve seen this problem several times on authors websites. Usually from first time authors, and especially from authors who design their own websites. It takes time to get a website set up, work out the kinks, and make sure everything makes sense. I’ll give you that. But I have two things to mention here, there’s [...]

Simple things forgotten…

Here on Highlights, we highlight the good with the bad.
Today I was cruising Liquid Silver’s site, looking for contact information for one of their authors. Here is a great example of something simple, and yet really important, being forgotten on a publisher’s website. Author contact information. If it’s on there… I didn’t see it.
One would [...]