All tagged authors
Well, I can share my experience and hope it encourages you. And I would love to hear what you have to share with me! EACH CHARACTER HAS A JOURNEY…
So you’ve written your manuscript, revised it with a developmental editor and a few trusted readers (and then revised it again), and you feel ready to move forward. What is your next step? Well, if you are self-publishing, now is the time to connect with a professional copyeditor to give your manuscript that final polish.
Want to know something crazy? More people will read your author bio then will ever read your book! Think about it. When you are shopping for a book, what do you look at? The front cover, the synopsis on the back cover, reviews, the author bio and maybe a sampling of the contents, right?
Everyone has a brand...BUT IS YOUR BRAND WHAT YOU WANT?
Our brand is the way we present ourselves and how others perceive us. It’s our writer persona and personality. It’s how people identify us in their minds and emotions. Think of an author, any author. What comes to mind? Their face? Their signature? Is it something they wrote? Or something they said? Something others said about them?
The pay-to-publish world (also called subsidy or vanity publishing) includes publishers who sell their expertise to help launch unrecognized authors, unscrupulous pseudo-experts making as much as they can off inexperienced authors, and many others in between. Going with a subsidy publisher can be cheaper and seem easier than paying for quality editors, designers, and project managers, but it’s not uncommon to end up with a shoddy product. Here are five important things to know about paying to publish…
