Whether you’re an author publishing through traditional means or delving into self-publishing, you are going to want the feedback of a good editor or perhaps more than one. The difficulty for authors, especially those choosing self-publishing is when do you take an editor’s advice and make changes and when do you determine you’ve gotten enough [...]
Have you given much thought to the voice of your narrator? Perhaps you assumed the narrator in your novel should remain neutral. Many writers believe that the narrator should have little in the way of identity and the use of a narrator is essentially a necessary means of moving the story from one scene to [...]
There’s an estimated 3 million Independent authors worldwide. If these writers join forces the potential impact is staggering.
As of right now, the print-on-demand companies estimate that over 90% of their authors sell less than 30 books per year. The question is: how do you expand the position and exposure in the bookselling market and offer [...]
Getting a manuscript published has never been easier; marketing and selling books has never been harder. Authors who pursue the smallest place for their Independent book on the shelf of a traditional bookseller is wasting valuable time and resources.
The six largest publishers in the world, all based in New York (five owned by foreign corporations), [...]
You’ve spent hours researching, writing and self-publishing your book. Now, you want to reap the benefits of selling it yourself, but where do you begin?
Here are five simple tips to help you get started.
1. Figure out your market.
“Bookstores are lousy places to sell books,” says self-publishing guru Dan Poynter in USA Weekend . “Find the [...]
There is some beautiful literary styles that thrive on the repeated use of words and phrases. The language is poetic and beautiful. This, however, is not an article that encourages the use of repeated words.
Unless you are writing in a style that demands the use of repetition it may be in your best interest to [...]
October
28
A Discourse With Swindle out of Costelloe, Inventor Of Coinage Of Commitment, A Fiction Wide Higher Fondness From A Servant’s Angle
Undedr: writing
Today, Model Goldman, Publisher & Rewriter is chuffed to have as our company, On Costelloe, architect of Coinage of Commitment.
Proper date Hold up and thanks in behalf of participating in our interview.
Measure: When did your passion in the service of column begin? What keeps you going?
Rob: I wrote earlier in life, including a teeth-cutting first [...]
Has anyone else noticed a trend of books, both self-published and from commercial publishers, that were originally ebooks and have not completely shaken the unfortunate signs of their origin?
1.Since ebooks can be sold easily at 80-100 pages, but print books cannot, the book version gains length through appendices that take up one-third of the page [...]
I came to realize early on in my stay in this beautiful country of Thailand, that Thai women were not only perfectly groomed and gracious, but they were absolutely “svelte.” I mean, how many more attributes do they get? I felt like Gulliver in the land of the Lilliputians.
As a newly-arrived expat in Thailand, I [...]
Creating a printed book is a bit more complicated than creating a PDF eBook. More steps are involved, just by right of producing a tangible finished product that needs to be handled in the physical world (versus an electronic document that can be distributed by e-mail or online). The basic print publishing process for a [...]
