Fictive Universe

iClever Keyboard Review geared for writers using Scrivener iOS on mobile devices. I use it on my iPhone, so that’s what I show in the video. iClever Keyboard Review   I love Scrivener iOS. I use it on my iPhone, but tapping away on the phone’s screen with those tiny keys was a bit much, […]

Fixing Google search results is pretty straightforward and I show you how to do that in this video: Background About Fixing Google Search Results If you watched the video above, you can see it’s an easy process to contact Google via its “Feedback” link to report a problem with Google’s search result. For me, this […]

Sign PDF Documents Free As indie authors and publishers we’ll have to documents to sign. Usually, they’ll email you a PDF document. I would print it out, then sign it, then scan it back into my computer so I could email back the signed copy. There has to be a better way to sign PDF […]

Import emails to Aweber (or MailChimp or whatever you’re using as your email marketing software) is a very easy process as you can see from this video (I walk you through the process step by step in less than three minutes). Import Emails to Aweber Video Tutorial Try AWeber’s Autoresponders for Free How to Import Emails to Aweber […]

2017 Goal Setting for my writing and publishing goals is pretty straight forward: I need to publish more books in 2017 than I have published between 2013 and 2016. 2017 Goal Setting: Publish or Perish From Wikipedia: “Publish or perish” is a phrase coined to describe the pressure in academia to rapidly and continually publish […]

Customized Amazon Gift Cards are a great way to send out gift cards to winners of your author giveaways or to send out review copies. Note: Although this a whole different subject matter, I want to mention, that I don’t recommend sending out an Amazon Gift Card to possible reviewers since there is no guarantee […]

Daily Word Count Tracker basic spreadsheet that you can download for free. UPDATE: The Daily Word CountTracker for 2018 is ready for direct download: 2018 Word Tracking Spreadsheets. Tracking your daily word count is a true and tried method used by a lot of successful writers. It keeps them focused and on track of their writing […]

Book typos (grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, and plain old typos) are inevitable no matter how thoroughly your manuscript has been edited and proofread; errors and typos will get through! As indie self-published writers, we get a bad rap about this issue, but every single indie author that I know goes to great length and expense to […]

I had to deal with an unpleasant event recently and that was having to fix WordPress Hacked Site. About a month ago my WordPress-powered website for my Thriller Author Interview Podcast was hacked and brought down hard. It took a week to recover. I’ll walk you through what happened, why it happened, and how I […]

Google Voice Call Recording for Podcast Interviews Google voice call recording is an easy and free way to record calls for interview guests who don’t have or don’t want to use Skype. All you need is a free Google Voice phone number. Ask the interviewee to call that Google Voice number. Answer the call, to […]