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Why did I become a writer?
Why did I become a writer?

There has been a lot of discussion on Threads recently about becoming a writer, but don’t give up your day job. I have seen a lot of arguments from all sides, some people saying they became a successful full time writer, others saying they would never give up their job, then there are others who became writers full time then went back to another job. Writing has always been a hobby for me, but this discussion has made me think more about why I write.

Adding social icons to the Bulma Clean Theme footer
Adding social icons to the Bulma Clean Theme footer

Version 1.1.0 of Bulma clean theme has been released. It has a small update that allows you to easily add social media links to the footer of your site.

Marketing an ebook with the 4Ps
Marketing an ebook with the 4Ps

I have seen a lot of threads from indie authors asking for advice with marketing their ebook. If I’m honest, I have never really had a strategy for marketing my books, I just assumed that I could put it out there and people would find it. In the real world, that does not seem to be the case.

Building a landing page for your book
Building a landing page for your book

This post follows on from my last post about using your website to promote your ebooks. The first step of the article explains that you need to make a website, but didn’t go into too much detail. This post aims at explaining how you can build a landing page for your book with Bulma Clean Theme.

How to promote your ebooks with your website?
How to promote your ebooks with your website?

I’m a web developer by trade and a part-time author, so here are a few things that I have done to help promote my books and ebooks using my website and my tech know how from my day job.

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Using Tailwindcss with Codepen
Using Tailwindcss with Codepen

I created a free account for Codepen to provide a demo with my blog post about ‘Creating a custom toggle in TailwindCSS’ but it took me a little while to figure out how to use Tailwindcss with codepen. So, this is what I did to get it working.

Creating a custom toggle in TailwindCSS
Creating a custom toggle in TailwindCSS

I’ve only just started using TailwindCSS, (I know late to the party huh), and I wanted to create a custom toggle switch that looked a bit nicer than a standard checkbox. This blog post goes through some of the thought processes and the tools that Tailwindcss v4 has out of the box that you can make use of.

Five book blurb writing observations
Five book blurb writing observations

Amazon KDP gives you a basic text editor for your book’s blurb, but here are five observations that I have made from researching other books. All of the examples are taken from Mystery books in the Amazon UK store.

How NOT to make a website

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