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SoulPublications
Ltd
print on
demand specialists
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We recommend
that you construct a website to promote you book |
This should be simple and the ones already shown on
this website are
examples of what points you should be covering, with
a simple no fuss
layout.
We recommend that you do this even if you are
publishing through Amazon.
On your Amazon listing you can have a link through
to your own book
promoting webpages.
The pages should be optimized so that keywords and
other variable
descriptions will capture interested readers from
various search parameters
within the navigation structures of the internet.
We can do this for you for a small fee and for a
little more we can build
your book promotion website for you.
Remember; promotion, marketing of your book is
essential, we are now living
in a new publishing age, its cheaper and more
efficient to publish on
demand. Finding an old fashioned publisher who will
print your book and
market it will take all the profitability from your
work. And forget about
selling through bookshops they will take a further
slice. What little return you
may obtain from your work
should at least be kept for yourself.
You can compete in this new publishing age, but you
need to do the marketing
yourself and this begins with a webpage or a
small website for
each of your books. |
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Checking, checking and
re-checking. |
Writing a book is often a
very difficult and lengthy
process and you may think
that its the end of the
process once you’ve
completed your manuscript.
However copy editing and
proof reading can be a
longer and very difficult
final process.
With copy editing:
everything needs to be
checked read and re-read
for, consistency and
grammar, questions need to
be addressed - does it make
sense, in paragaphical
blocks and also in the
entire sense of the piece,
the structure and the plot,
the overall narrative, the
spelling all these areas
need to be thoroughly
checked.
There are professional that
can do this (for a fee).
Same thing applies with
proofreading.
Proofreading is the final
stage it means laboriously
checking again, spelling and
grammar, punctuation,
checking and scrutinising
the text for typesetting
errors, inconsistencies,
mistakes in the overall
design, the layout, chapter
headings, everything needs
also a final dispassionate
look through.
My experience is that no
matter how many times you
might check your document
yourself it will still have
errors because you know what
‘you’ mean and this acts
like a form of ‘blindness’
and you mind compensates for
errors that your eyes might
miss. Then it can be
compounded with differences
in a computer screen and a
‘printed version’. I have
noticed that I read
differently for each option
so its best to print out
your book in its final
layout format and read it
again.
Also it’s a very good idea
to get someone other than
yourself to read it, to
check it, best if its two
persons and one that has a
good handle on spelling and
grammar.
Even the professionals that
you pay a fee too for doing
this job can make obvious
mistakes!
The next step is to get the
document printed as a
finished book.
We recommend
Booksurge for
this, as they are the best
cost efficient and modern
marketing outfit that suits
the current trends in book
buying.
However their self
publishing operation has
certain issues and these
will be covered here soon.
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