Tech Help For New Writers

Currently, it's no secret that Amazon has completely altered the way books are published. Not only is Jeff bezos' company getting into transitional publishing, with the ebook Kindle platform (not to mention competing products such as Kobo, Nook etc.), authors are no longer at the mercy of immense New York publishing companies. Nor is the only other choice vanity publishing, in which you are required to spend a lot of money before the printing process starts to pay a company to print, bind and stock your books (which may or may not sell). At this point, it's no problem for neophite writers to write a manuscript, upload it and begin collecting money via Amazon's distribution network.

But unwary writers will still deal with a lot of traps on the way to achieving success. To start with, there must be hundreds of thousands of people who are writing and uploading ebooks nowadays. Unsurprisingly, with such a extensive amount of competition, getting your work noticed necessitates a fair amount of sweat. And this is where a lot of new writers are falling down on the job. They seem to think that once the manuscript is done, they're finished. But there are still a lot of things to do.

Number one: get a good cover made. If there's one thing that makes a book stand out, it's a well-executed, eye-catching cover. And a shoddily done cover will limit your sales (and therefore your income). It makes sense; who would bother to take a chance on a story when the author hasn't bothered to get a good cover made for it?

Second, there is the technical process of formatting the manuscript for Kindle, Kobo and so on. Each device has a different standard, and just putting an MSWord document up on Amazon is going to create a Kindle book that has odd spaces, line breaks, chapter breaks, etc. In extreme cases, this lack of formatting can render the manuscript all but unreadable, and even in cases where it's not that extreme, bad formatting will leave a bad taste in the reader's mouth. Along the same lines, you should employ a professional proof-reader to give your work a once-over. Misspelled words, run-on sentences and the like will drive away many readers, and if your book should happen to get reviewed by a blogger with a large following, you can bet that technical English issues will draw criticism. Unfortunately, all too many authors neglect this vital aspect of publishing, resulting in books that are, in a word, unprofessional. If you plan to sell your books, that means that you are going to be a professional writer. So you should uphold the standards of professionalism as much as you can.

Finally, there is uploading the manuscript to whatever website or service you're going to use to distribute it. Again, many authors simply don't want to deal with the hassle of this step. But even someone who is technically challenged will have to either figure this out or else engage someone to do it for them.

Happily, there are services out there that can aid in solving all of these issues. And they don't have to cost all that much. Depending on how much help you want, you can get, for instance, a guide to upload books on Kindle, complete with snippets of HTML code already written out for you, for as little as a few dollars. You can employ an editor to go through your (normal-length) manuscript for less than a hundred dollars, assuming that it doesn't call for an unusual amount of attention. Good cover artists are around who can be employed for an equivalent amount. A quick web search will turn up enough that you can take your pick. Alternatively, there exist reputable companies that can furnish some or all of these services as a package deal, thereby saving you both money and time... time that you can then spend on getting your second book written.

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