Quotes By Famous People

9 Badass Quotes By Famous People

Julian Assange

If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.

 

Mahatma Gandhi

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

 

Ray Charles

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

 

George Bernard Shaw

All great truth begin as blasphemies.

 

Frank Zappa

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

 

George S. Patton

Though I may walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest mother ****er in the valley.

 

 Captain John Parker

Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.

 

Albert Camus

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

 

Bruce Lee

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; you put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; you put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

 

source:  topyaps

Friendship Transforms All Boundaries

Friendship Transforms All Boundaries

source: Awesomely Cute

Beautiful Shadow Dance

Beautiful Story - Beautiful Shadow Dance

The Shadow Theatre Group from England performs in this beautiful work of art.

Charlie Bit Me

Charlie Bit Me

It`s an oldy, but goldy, whenever I feel a little down I watch those kids

Christian the Lion

Christian the Lion

Enjoy!

Is she cute or is she cute?

Stroke of Insight

Jill Bolte Taylor's Stroke of Insight

If you are into spirituality and are looking for a (scientific) link to Nirvana, then I invite you to watch this short presentation. They might be the best 20 minutes you ever invested in learning about yourself, everybody else and the Universe.

Breakdown of 1939

Porky Pig: Breakdown of 1939

The Most Epic Ad Ever Made

How to Create Audiobooks via ACX

Reaching Readers: How to Create Audiobooks via ACX

by Roz Morris on April 26, 2014 in Reaching Readers (Sat)

British author Roz Morris describes how to turn self-published books into audiobooks via Amazon Audible’s ACX service – a great way to reach new readers and to take advantage of the growing global market for audiobooks.

British author Roz Morris

Do you want to release your title as an audiobook? If you live in the US, you can go through ACX, the DIY arm of Audible, but ACX wasn’t open to UK authors – until now. For the past month, I’ve had both my novels in production as a test pilot, and now I can tell you what I’ve learned so far about offering a title, choosing a narrator and working with them.

What’s ACX?

Good question. ACX is a network where narrators and producers can meet authors who want their work released as audiobooks. Once you’ve hooked up, you can then use the site as an interface to create the book, keep track of contracts and monitor sales. In short, it’s genius.

Setting Up

You know how tedious it is every time you set up an identity on a new site? All that form-filling and profile-making? ACX requires minimal faff. Once you tell them who you are and what book you’d like to offer, it pulls the detail off Amazon.

Getting Voices

Roz Morris’s debut novel

You can:

• opt to narrate and produce the audiobook yourself, but to do this you must have professional-quality equipment and experience of sound editing, or the book won’t pass the quality check
• pluck a willing narrator/producer out of the ether (this is what I did)

Pitching your book

Next to your book info, you can add notes to make your book more attractive to collaborators – your platform, sales figures and anything else that will convince them you’re worth working with. Which brings me to…

Costs

Making an audiobook isn’t cheap. An average novel is about 10 hours of narration (roughly 90,000 words) and is likely to cost $200 or more per finished hour. You have these options if you’re seeking a narrator/producer on ACX:

• pay up front
• pay a royalty share (which I did)

All the ins and outs of this are much better explained on the ACX site, so check them out there.

My ACX Journey – Mistakes Made and Lucky Discoveries

Roz Morris’s second novel

So those are the basics for using ACX. However, in real life there were a few things I needed to learn (more than a few!):

• Choose an audition passage that will give you an accurate feel for the way the narrators will handle your material.
• Be careful what qualities you ask for in your ‘ideal narrator’ specification and with the guidance notes you give them, or you might get a lot of unsuitable applicants.
• Once you’re in production, there are tips on working with your narrator and what your role will be.

Head to my blog for the full version of this post and the voice of experience! Like to share this post with other author friends who may be interested in learning how to turn self-published books into audiobooks? Here’s our suggested tweet: “How to turn your self-published books into #audiobooks with #ACX : http://www.selfpublishingadvice.org/reaching-readers-how-to-create-audiobooks-via-acx via @IndieAuthorAlli & @Roz_Morris”

QueryTracker Blog: Being Subtle With Subtext

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QueryTracker Blog: Writing and the Rule of Three

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Use Power Sharing to Multiply Readers of Your Blog Posts

By Carole Jelen

 

The easy path to gain more blog readers? First, give the gift of social sharing buttons right there on every post. Make it easy for readers who like your post to share it with their network right from their mobile devices or laptops. Exposure and findability count for authors: your blog readers who share your post with their networks then open a path to  multiply readers via additional networks of others. We’re living in an era of power sharing: passing along news and items of interest to people quickly in a way that multiplies posts. You can ride that wave of readership interest if you do it right. Readers love quick, easy sharing of interesting information with their networks.

You put on your duvet cover wrong

You tie a tie wrong (or too slowly)

You put your car’s side mirrors wrong

You fold fitted sheets wrong

You fold fitted sheets wrong

You pack your suitcase wrong

You dry your hands wrong

You tie shoes wrong

You fold a t-shirt wrong

You take a shirt off wrong

You throw a football wrong

You make mac & cheese wrong

You make grilled cheese sandwiches wrong

You make grilled cheese sandwiches wrong

You reheat pizza wrong

You boil water wrong

You eat cupcakes wrong

You eat chicken wings wrong

You eat TicTac wrong

Website Design for Facebook Pages

Today social media is a rapidly growing channel for promoting your business. Facebook dominates this space and provides opportunities through their business pages making a good Facebook page design important. These pages can now display your actual website using iFrame and adds another dimension to your website design challenges.

Tips to Choose an SEO Friendly Hosting

So, you have decided to launch a website for your business. You do all the research and find the right website hosting solution. It is perfect, fits your budget, great bandwidth (unlimited), shared hosting, FTP access, the works.

You do your site and launch it and everything works great. Now you got to promote your website using SEO and suddenly you have major issues you never considered. Your SEO Service keeps telling you a variety of hurdles in executing critical edits for a successful campaign.

Love your website this Valentine’s Day

This Valentine’s Day treat your website with a fresh look.

Get your website all that it needs & make it feel special. Your website needs action, so that your audience not only sits up and notices it but, virtually falls in love with it.
We have some suggestions about how you can rejuvenate your website this Valentine’s Day.

Why is HTML5 important?

HTML5 promises users a better web experience than its predecessor across all devices whether they are Smartphones like the iPhone or Android, traditional Computers and the newer Tablets and Netbooks.

The 5 Most Important Features of HTML5

HTML5, the new version of HTML offers a number of unique features which will change the way websites and users interact. We will take a look at 5 important features which revolutionize the way users view websites. HTML5 will significantly change the way websites are designed. It is already a favored platform for new age technology. Search engines will get access to tap into a richer source of information.
The Apple iPhones, iPads and Google Android phones already use elements of HTML 5. This makes it an important markup language for future website design projects across various display devices.
HTML5 features in the limelight

3 Steps to Speeding up your Website

Google has been explicit that website speed is an SEO signal. So, one should always be looking for ways to reduce website load times. Google offers great advice on this too. This is a simplified explanation of what Google recommends

upgrade your website

Why upgrade your website to HTML5

You need to upgrade your website to HTML5 and fast. Here are 5 compelling reasons to do so.
Everybody’s moving, it is the future

Google Fall In Love

Make Google Fall In Love With Your Website

As a business one of your key goals is to make it easier for your customers to find you. With more businesses getting online every day, competition is heating up while the attention span of the customer is reducing. Given this scenario, it is imperative that you are visible to the customer looking for relevant product or service.

Learn To Say No

Stop Being a Pushover: Learn To Say No in 10 Steps

When I was a child, I never wanted to say no to anyone. I was so eager to please, I found myself agreeing to things I didn’t want to do with people I didn’t want to be around. By the time I graduated from high school, I realized I needed to take a stand and live my own life. I started by flaking out on things, and quickly realized that’s a terrible way to be. Instead I adjusted my perspective and took the steps necessary to learn to say no. Here are 10 steps you can take to stop being a pushover and learn to say no.

Speak Less and Listen More

After I Read This, I Started to Speak Less and Listen More…

We’ve been blessed with a very precious gift, my friends: the gift of talking. The gift of language. The gift of being able to express our feelings, emotions, ideas or plans into something called words. But, alas, as with every gift, overusing it may lead to unexpected results.

Artificial Intelligence

Will Artificial Intelligence Destroy Us?

Advancements in the field of artificial intelligence are exciting, and they could make the world a better place. However, not everyone agrees with that. Tara discusses a recent article published by Stephen Hawking saying that AI could lead to the downfall of humanity.