Do-It-Yourself Editing: A Guide for the eBook Author

Do-It-Yourself Editing: A Guide for the eBook Author

by Courage Knight
Do-It-Yourself Editing: A Guide for the eBook Author

Do-It-Yourself Editing: A Guide for the eBook Author

by Courage Knight

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Overview

Anyone can publish a book these days. Amazon has made it incredibly easy. Through their kindle format, you can upload your manuscript yourself and hope it sells. Amazon offers support every step of the way, with webpages and videos from how to create the table of contents to finding a cover artist--or even how to create the cover art yourself. They have marketing strategies built right in to their kindle select program. Because of this, thousands of people are now published authors! They no longer have to wade through months--or years--of rejection slips, as they struggle to perfect their craft. Anyone who has a computer and can plunk out a couple thousand words can publish online and even charge money for their effort.

But how many times have you bought an eBook and felt that you wasted your money? Have you tried to read an eBook with so many punctuation errors in it, that it just wasn't enjoyable? Ever ask for your money back? And then what did you do? If you're like me, you made a note of that author's name so you wouldn't make the mistake of buying from him or her again.

So it is with your book! You need to revise, rewrite and reread your novel, to make sure that it is the best it can be. Even if you are going to send your book to a publisher--online or in print--you should still do your own rewriting, and submit a clean, carefully crafted story, that is original, creative, and thoroughly enjoyable.

You are an author! You will be a published author. Take pride in that, and present only your best work. Then, continue to improve, so your best gets even better.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940151470025
Publisher: LazyDay Publishing
Publication date: 04/28/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

I started writing stories in First Grade. I had a wonderful teacher, the rare breed that inspired and nurtured me. She was a published author of children's books, and I—being perhaps a bit of a teacher's pet—read every one of them.

I came from a large family, fourth out of five children, and shared a bedroom with my younger sister. She would pester me to tell her stories every night at bedtime. I whispered them to her, as we were supposed to go right to sleep. Invariably, she would fall asleep on my stories, but every night she begged me to tell her more. Sometimes her inattention irritated me, but it also gave me the opportunity to rewind and tell a favorite part of the story again—great practice for the rewriting process.

While raising my own brood of munchkins, I didn't write much of anything although I gathered experience. I read whenever I could find five minutes to myself. I took a few workshops and courses, and I sold some nonfiction articles, but it wasn't until 1998 when I really began writing fiction. My husband took a job in another state. I stayed behind with the children and tried to prepare for a move. The days were filled and busy, but the nights were long and lonely. I poured out my soul on the keyboard, and one night I uploaded a fan fiction novel to a fan website. The Internet was still something new to me—we'd had a computer for years, but had just joined the "world-wide web." Within days, I had over 200 emails from adoring fans pouring into my inbox.

And that is how my writing career began.

We bought a home, I moved in with my darling husband, got the children settled in the new neighborhood—but still wrangled time out of my hectic schedule to fulfill this deep need to put thoughts into print and spin my tales. Over the next two years, I wrote 22 full-length novels of fan fiction. Then I branched off and started writing romance. Perhaps I've put another generation of Internet little sisters to sleep.

Visit my website: www.CourageKnight.com
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