Welcome to Gael McCarte's FOCUS MATTERS

Social Media: Opportunity and dilemma

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 09:15:00 -0400

Time for your social media checkup. Social media is no longer just about advertising your products...

71 year old author "learned" how to grow pot for her book

Tue, 29 May 2012 20:06:00 -0400

Linda aged 71, is a song writer and author. As she does not play a musical instrument others set...

Pin Me: The 6 Be's of effective Pinterest use

Tue, 29 May 2012 12:09:00 -0400

If you are reading this you likely know Pinterest is a social networking site with a creative...

E-book solution to rising text book costs

Sun, 27 May 2012 08:14:00 -0400

Many parents and educators worry about the spinal effects of children carrying huge backpacks...

Need relevant twitter followers? Use Follow Blast

Sun, 20 May 2012 16:42:00 -0400

Want more relevant followers. Think of the key words you need to use to find them. As my first novel...

How To Plan a Successful Book Promotion

Tue, 15 May 2012 08:39:00 -0400

Book done? Nearly done? Well done. Time to promote it. Don’t think you have to? Think again....

Writers, Never Give Up: by guest blogger Ron Katz

Fri, 11 May 2012 18:50:45 -0400

I lead a support group for people who are unemployed. I received an e-mail from a member of my the...

Focusing your website

Fri, 11 May 2012 09:40:00 -0400

Simon Jordan who has had amazing success online and who focuses on clarity in promotion and...

trou-de-ver: St. Malo, France.

Mon, 07 May 2012 07:59:28 -0400

trou-de-ver:

St. Malo, France.

The Third Fate, by Nadja Notarini: Book Review

Mon, 07 May 2012 00:16:00 -0400

The Third Fate by Nadja Notariani follows her previous two books, Claiming The Prize and Her Dark...

It's Here!! My new ebook.

Sun, 06 May 2012 09:19:36 -0400

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0080RXZIO

Elena Martina author: "Clinging to Deceit"

Sat, 05 May 2012 18:15:00 -0400

The first thing you notice about Elena Martina’s facebook page...

Winning when a long term female friendship ends is the subject of my book, released May 5, 2012

Fri, 04 May 2012 20:31:00 -0400

Females in long time friendships become as close as sister friends. Women negotiate their...

Blogging with social media flair

Fri, 04 May 2012 13:03:00 -0400

There are many blogging and social media sites. Here are some of the more popular. Whichever ones...

Speakers: Social media turns audiences into clients

Thu, 03 May 2012 09:45:00 -0400

You have been invited to speak, paid in advance, the limo waited for you at the airport. You found...

Antedote to performance anxiety:Drug free, and natural

Tue, 01 May 2012 12:00:00 -0400

Anxiety sucks. Skilled, well trained, passionate about music, she could not play her loved cello in...

Cyber multi tasking

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:20:00 -0400

Waiting to fly, all those round me at the airport were connected. Smartphone, not so smart phones,...

Unintended consequences of the cyber age

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:47:00 -0400

The internet has brought thousands of unintended consequences. Not only have the buying practices...

The cover for “The Con”. Readers say: “You got me, I...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:47:53 -0400

The cover for “The Con”.

Readers say: “You got me, I did not see that ending coming” JN, Washington State

“Finished your book yesterday, it was great! I cried during the bombing portion, the balloon was precious. The ending was unexpected. Good job, I look forward to reading more of your work!” CV, retired government worker, Olympia, Washington

“There are so many layers, so much to wonder about, clever - it brought laughter and tears…indeed I was surprised by the ending. When is the sequel? “ KP, professional therapist and seminar speaker, USA

“BIG Congratulations on your book!… I have just finished reading it!…It really got me in and I just had to keep reading till finished…Well done and do let me know if there is another one in the pipe line!!!” MB, education specialist in Perth, Australia.

“… you have a very different style to the type of books that I normally read (biographies and “pick me up - put me down” mysteries), I thoroughly enjoyed it. A lot of books are padded out with a lot of superfluous crap but yours was very succinct and economical and I loved your similes and metaphors. e.g. “decorated with the flair of a Melbourne Cup Hat Maker”.

“I enjoyed the fact that it was located in Western Australia and could therefore identify with the places mentioned and also the local idiom. I must admit, the ending surprised me. Just goes to prove that the ‘leopards spots are hard to change’ and ‘all is not necessarily as it may seem’ to think of a couple of old adages.” Real Estate professional in Perth, Western Australia

“A good strong plot, and unexpected ending” ON, editor, Queensland Australia

“You have a winner here”, editor and published author, Tennessee, USA.

visualturn: Bold Strokes: New Font Helps Dyslexics...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:46:31 -0400

visualturn:

Bold Strokes: New Font Helps Dyslexics Read

Christian Boer, a graphic designer from the Netherlands, has developed a way to help tackle his dyslexia. The 30-year-old created a font called Dyslexie that has proved to decrease the number of errors made by dyslexics while reading.

…One of the first things he did was increase the boldness of letters at their bases, to make them appear weighted, causing readers’ brains to know not to flip them upside down, as can occur with “p” and “d.” Boer also enlarged the openings of various letters, such as “a” and “c,” to make them more distinguishable from one another, and increased the length of “the tail” of other letters, like the “g” and y.” He also put certain letters at a slant so that they would appear to be in italics, like the “j,” a tactic to increase the brain’s ability to distinguish it from the letter “i.” Finally, he boldfaced capital letters and punctuation, and provided ample space between letters and words, to allow the brain more time to compute the letters and begin forming them into words and sentences.

The details of this just totally fascinate me.