Because Christmas day is one of the few days when Indie writers can’t think up good enough excuses to stay hunched over hot computers in their garrets, and the time of year when they totally invest themselves in the overconsumption of mince pies while staring resentfully at their abductors, and probably drink too much eggnog trying not to think about their abandoned work in progress, I’ll keep this Thursday’s post very short with a couple of tips for those nontechie scribblers amongst us.
1. Create a clickable link to go into your eBook. Type the text as you want it to appear in your manuscript – the name of another book for instance. Highlight that text and right click on it. Select Hyperlink and paste the URL address into the box and save.
2. If you find it painful creating HTML for clickable links on your blog posts, go to Ecalpemos and you can generate them there.
3. Instead of inserting all the HTML code yourself, if you want to create a post complete with pictures, links, and text to send out for a blog tour, click on your Text tab in a new blog post, create the post there and then copy and paste it onto a Word document. Double check before sending it out by copying the text from your Word doc, pasting it into a new post, and checking in your preview window to make sure all is as it should be.
4. Remember that all HTML posts must be done in your Text tab, and not the Visual one.
Happy Holidays!
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Information for authors NEVER stops – even on Christmas day 😀
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Thanks for sharing Chris! 😀
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Welcome as always Jo 😀
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This is great Ronovan. I had wondered about something like this just yesterday.
(And i actually do hope to be hunched over my computer today, working on a book. That would be the best present to me. So often work keeps me blocked from creating.) I hope your Christmas is everything you want it to be. Hugs. ⭐
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It really is easy Teagan. Scribble onwards! I hope your present today is loads and loads of awesome new words. Happy Christmas and hugs! 🙂
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Thanks Jo! Sorry for my early morning author confusion… I like to give proper credit. Enough people have commented that i should write about my job that now i’m trying to shut out ideas for a dystopian parody of my workplace! LOL. [Ideas fine — but no more than three works in progress at a time please, teagan’s brain.]
Merry Christmas to you too. 🙂
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I was wondering about this myself. Thanks Jo! I’ll give it a go!
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Pleasure Olga! It’s nice this way because WordPress does all the work for you. 🙂
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Very useful, Jo! Thank you… and Happy Christmas… from the computer… though complete with mince pies and the odd glass of Burgundy… 😉
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