6 Reasons Why I Refuse to Have My Work Edited

I want people to tell me my book is horrible. I think it's great and that's all that matters. I want 1-star reviews! It fuels me to keep writing; the 1-star reviewers are just jealous. I want people to see me as an amateur, not a professional. After all, writing is my hobby. I want to be known as an author who doesn't value my own work.  I want people to refuse to buy my work in the future. One sale is plenty. I want to sabotage my own writing career and keep my day job a good while longer. Honestly, those are the only reasons I can come up with, and all of those reasons are asinine. I can't figure out for the life of me real reasons...

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Traditional or Self Published? You Decide.

By Carolyn Kellogg January 9, 2014, 1:00 p.m. Writers prefer to be published by a traditional publisher over self-publishing. Go figure. More than 9,000 authors responded to questions about the publishing industry in a report to be issued next week. Of the writers surveyed, 57.8% said they'd rather go the traditional route with their next book than try self-publishing. These aren't just old-fashioned authors. That percentage includes writers who have been both self-published and traditionally published. What's more, the survey was conducted by Writers Digest and Digital Book World -- which certainly captures people interested in digital publishing. Of course, traditional publishing houses publish e-books too. They'll be among those at the Digital Book World Conference,...

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Make 2015 YOUR Year!

We are searching for 10 aspiring authors who want to become published in 2015. Stop pretending your talent doesn't exist and MAKE this year your year! Submit your query online line her...

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Book Promoting Sites

40 Book Promoting Sites – Part 1 (via ePublish a Book) 40 Book Promoting Sites – Part 1   When publishing a book, the key to success is promotion and distribution. Both are meant to give books as much exposure as possible. In order to gain time, it is best to know where to find opportunities to gain exposure easily. This is why we are now creating...

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Sesame Street Now on Nook

DIGITAL PUBLISHINGSesame Street Now On NookBy Dianna Dilworth on February 2, 2012 12:25 PMBarnes & Noble is now selling Sesame StreeteBooks on the Nook Color.  This includes titles such as The Monster at the End of This Book.The books are being published by Sesame Streetand Random House Children’s Books, who announced a new digital imprint partnership last week. This spring, the imprint will put out another eBooks including: Get Moving with Grover, Big Bird Says and Baker, Baker, Cookie Maker.A select group of these new books will include audio narration from Sesame Street veteran Bob McGrath.Wendy Bronfin, Senior...

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Nook Color Battery Life

Your Nook Color battery life is probably important to you for many reasons. An ereader’s primary attraction is its ability to function wirelessly on battery power. Therefore, a device with a short battery life is fairly useless and potentially a waste of money. Owners of the Nook have an additional reason for wanting their battery to last a long time, these ereaders run on rechargeable batteries which cannot be replaced by their owners.Most Nooks come with warranties so that you can avoid the inconvenience of having to submit the device for a replacement. Either way, replacing the battery is not for the do-it-yourself types. The Nook Color BatteryThe Nook Color has a rechargeable battery, like its predecessor. It can function for as much as eight hours after a full recharge. However,...

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The Release of a "Slew" of E-books

A small team at Penguin India's New Delhi office is agog with excitement as the publishing powerhouse - with 250 titles every year - waits for its E-moment - launch of the first set of 150ebooks slated for this month. Not just Penguin, other Indian book publishers are taking the risk to launch e-books to try out the potential of this virgin market at a local level. Top publishing houses like Harper Collins and Amar Chitra Katha are all expected to release their first set of e-books within the next six months. "We are aggressively converting books into e-books. At this point in time, there is not a big market for e-books...

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First-Time Author Mistakes

Prior to being published, first time authors frequently make mistakes that damage or even preclude their book's marketability. Commonly, these errors include Poorly designed or stock cover art Unedited or unprofessionally edited text Under funding of or lack of a book marketing budget Inadequate online presence Absence of book platform and clear audience for the material Book Covers make or break your ability to obtain reviews and readers. You can judge a book by its cover. As James Cox, Editor of Midwest Book Review puts it, "Stack #3 are those titles that are immediately rejected — not for their subject matter; not for being written by...

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Should You Make Your EBook Free?

One author's take on making a title available for download at the price of FREE!With permission from Stephanie HaddadWhy Free Was For Me - Stephanie HaddadIf you’ve been following my announcement over the past month, you might have caught on to the fact that I’ve made my novel, A Previous Engagement, free as an ebook. (Paperbacks aren’t free, sorry…LOL). You can download it just about anywhere: Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo, and iTunes. It was a risky move, just giving away my work, but it was one I felt I needed to make.See, to be totally honest, before I made that novel free to download, sales weren’t going so great...

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Three Secrets to Selling More Books

If you ask a group of authors "how can I sell more books" you are likely to hear a number of responses, from scheduling book tours, to buying and distributing promotional items, to spending time on social networking and blogging sites. None of these are wrong, and honestly, no one really has a magic formula for what works 100% of the time. If there were such a thing, there would be no room on the best sellers' lists, right?  I can tell you that the art of book sales takes a lot of work. A LOT of work. None-the-less, here are three quick and easy tips that are sure to be helpful. Know HOW to Talk about Your Work.Do you have an elevator...

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Now Accepting Submissions

We are currently accepting submissions for digital publication (Nook, Kindle, etc.) of Women's Commercial Fiction. You may email a query letter along with a brief synopsis and the first ten pages of your manuscript to  submissions@kissedpublications.com . If we take an interest in your work, we will notify you via email. Completed works should be 65,000 - 80,000 words. Click here  for complete submission guidelines. Click here  for more details on our Digital Publishing progr...

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