The Lifewriting� approach to your writing career demands a relatively high creative output. It isn’t designed to coddle people who nurse a single story for years before sending it out. But students often protest that they simply don’t come up with many good ideas, and that the ideas they do generate are appropriate for novels. [...]
Writing is a product. A basic marketing truism is that you can’t sell a product if no one wants to buy it. Whether or not your writing is wonderful doesn’t matter if you are writing about a subject no one wants to publish. The moral of the story? Never create your writing in a vacuum. [...]
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If you have always thought about writing for a living or have written things that you think people would like, why wait for publishers to notice your queries and your submissions? You can make money by turning to self publishing as a business and reap the rewards of your work being sold to and read [...]
Once your book is written and you’ve determined that you will be self-publishing, there are a few serious errors you are going to want to steer clear of. THINKING YOU DON’T NEED AN EDITOR Even the best writer needs a second pair of impartial, well-trained eyes to look over their work before sending it out [...]
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All the English skills in the world will not turn a fair writer into a great storyteller.
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The trite-and-true maxim is that non-fiction will always sell much better than fiction. While that is true, the reason for it gives us an insight into what kind of fiction WILL sell.
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If you are venturing out onto your first book publishing expedition, you will find many “publish a book” how-to sites that will give you pause. Page layout is a lot easier than people make it sound.
There are myriad places where you can find low-cost book cover design or cover art help. You do get what you pay for, but not all self-publishers can afford to pay for everything they need.
Publicizing your novel is difficult but not impossible. Finding the readers to market your book to is another matter.
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