1.  Thanks to The Lady Confidential for these 13 interesting facts about Google that you might not know:

https://theladyconfidentialblog.wordpress.com/2016/07/27/13-interesting-facts-about-google-that-you-may-not-know/

2.  Thanks to Bridget Whelan for bringing this competition for a mentoring course to our attention:

Major UK publisher wants to support new writers from under-represented communities

3.  Kotobee tells us why our Epubs are being rejected by Apple iBooks:

https://goo.gl/BQ7z1k

4.  Read Dream Big Dream Often’s info on connecting your blog to social media:

4 Benefits of Connecting Social Media to Your Blog

5.  Thanks to Pearls Before Swine for this 7 step writing process:

https://thepbsblog.wordpress.com/2016/08/01/my-writing-process-in-7-steps/

6.  3 differences between a demographic and your market:

3 Differences Between a Demographic and Your Market

7.  Still time to enter Pitch Wars.  Thanks Brenda Drake for this info:

http://www.brenda-drake.com/2016/08/pitch-wars-2016-submission-window-now-opened/

8.  Great advice here from LitWorldInterviews about receiving bad reviews:

Rotten Reviews and Terrible Trolls

9.  Thanks to Ana Spoke for this info on how to get 1000 Goodreads followers with only 5 minutes of effort:

Quick How-To: get 1,000 Goodreads followers with 5 minutes of effort

10.  Thanks to Liz Dexter for this word count info:

How do I count the number of times a word appears in my document?

11.  A lovely one to end on; A Fifties’ Child by Retired? No one told me!

https://blondieaka.wordpress.com/2016/08/04/a-fifties-child/comment-page-1/#comment-2231

Thanks to Chris, the Story Reading Ape,  Smorgasbord,  and Don Massenzio  for the re-blogs.