{"id":341,"date":"2012-11-12T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2012-11-12T00:44:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T05:44:52","slug":"bookmark-monday-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Bookmark Monday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning! I’ve three posts and a podcast for you today. The podcast offers some advice for beginning bloggers while the posts cover the topics of loglines, productivity and ISBNs.<\/p>\n

My Advice to Beginning Bloggers<\/a><\/p>\n

For most people wanting to build a platform, a blog will be their homebase. It is the foundation of everything else they do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Writing a One-Sentence Summary<\/a><\/p>\n

Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s discuss the\u00c2\u00a0one-sentence summary, also known as a logline, a hook, or a one-sentence pitch. (It is\u00c2\u00a0not\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>a tagline, however.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Savvy Indie Author\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Guide to ISBNs<\/a><\/p>\n

If you plan to distribute your book to major booksellers or retailers, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll need an ISBN (International Standard Book Number).\u00c2\u00a0An ISBN is the thirteen-digit number that identifies each book uniquely and connects them to a publisher\u00e2\u20ac\u201cit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like your book\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s social security number.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How Productive are You?<\/a><\/p>\n

If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re like most people, you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really know for sure\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re guessing based on years of experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good morning! I’ve three posts and a podcast for you today. The podcast offers some advice for beginning bloggers while the posts cover the topics of loglines, productivity and ISBNs. My Advice to Beginning Bloggers For most people wanting to build a platform, a blog will be their homebase. It is the foundation of everything […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[96,121,80,122,82,15],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-articles-2","tag-marketing","tag-monday","tag-publishing","tag-tips","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}