I'm almost impressed with myself!
I've (finally) started getting ahead with writing the blurbs for my daily photos, mostly because ive figured out that each post follows the same basic outline, including certain tags, so I can write them once, ^C/^P into place as many times as I need, then fill in the blanks.
A first runthrough will see reg, type, airline, location, and date details filled in, followed by filling out all the hashtags, all of which is done on my desktop.
I can then do a 2nd run, filling in any other details for the caption, then writing the AltText, on any other computing device I can get my hands on (my wife's computer or my ChromeBook if I'm cooking, tablet or phone if I'm out, or anything else).
Doing this, ive suddenly gone from writing in panic mode, to just needing to write AltText for 3 photos today and 5 photos for tomorrow, while Friday just needs AltText for 2 photos, and a 2nd run for 3.
Why has it taken so long to figure this out?
And I realised just after I started typing this that if I have a text file I could just copy each post outline from, I could write it once, and copy/paste forever!
Doh!
All I need to do now is finish that new watermark, and I'm set up for the year!

#AvGeek #writing #WebStuff #blurbs

Audio Interview: Updating, Rebranding, and Managing Your Books With Anna Featherstone and Catherine Bilson

ALLi nonfiction adviser Anna Featherstone interviews Catherine Bilson, who writes in multiple genres across four pen names, about the practicalities of updating and rebranding books. With more than 60 titles published and hundreds of translations under…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-rebranding/

#Podcast #backmatter #blurbs #bookcovers #indieauthors
@indieauthors

To Blurb or Not To Blurb

Earlier this year, Simon & Schuster’s Sean Manning wrote an article on blurbs that took the publishing world by storm.
https://writerunboxed.com/2025/04/08/to-blurb-or-not-to-blurb/

#business #Publicity #Writinglife #adviceforwriters #blurbs
@indieauthors

#Flashback #blogpost, My Bookcase Blurbs (February 2023): I thought I'd share front-cover blurbs from my bookcase in this post, but because I have so many fiction and nonfiction books, I narrowed my selection criteria. 📚 #books #blurbs

Link to post on Tall And True: https://www.tallandtrue.com.au/blog/my-bookcase-blurbs

Book blurbs going away? I somehow doubt it, being direct to consumer/reader marketing. Seems like a job for comical AI. I tend to skip considering books with blurbs entirely by people/authors I don't recognize. But if one of my favorite authors says it's the greatest book since...

#books #publishing #blurbs

https://lithub.com/in-a-dazzling-move-simon-schuster-is-dropping-their-blurbs-requirement/

»Der US-amerikanische Verlag Simon & Schuster will seine Autorinnen und Autoren von der Pflicht entbinden, für neue Romane Werbezitate von Kollegen einzuholen. Aber was ist gewonnen, wenn Blurbs fehlen?«

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/themen/us-verlag-simon-schuster-verzichtet-auf-blurbs-fuer-buecher-110281890.html #usa #blurbs

One co-author was curious about the little bright coloured buttons on the side of our new #bioRxiv #preprint. He clicked on the "automated services"... and found there 2 "#AIbstracts" of our manuscript, #AI generated #blurbs factually nearly correct and featuring only slighlty more than usual the commonplace attention catchers we scientists use.

Old news, it seems, though, but I hadn't noted it before.

https://connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/11/08/summaries