Essential advice for beginning writers on writing, proofreading, editing, query letters, and how to approach literary agents and book publishers with your novel.

Publishers are sellers. They are only interested in books that sell. They don’t want to spend time reading bad book manuscripts. You have to convince the publisher that your book is better than most and it could be a bestseller with their expertise. You can do that by writing a good book proposal.

While the In­ter­net may be harm­ing pub­lish­er chances of mak­ing a prof­it, it has been down­right help­ful to au­thors and con­tent cre­ators, and self pub­lish­ers. There are very con­ve­nient In­ter­net on de­mand ser­vices where all you have to do to get start­ed is to open an ac­count, up­load your book and art­work for the cov­er, and set up your IS­BN num­ber.

Maybe you have just submitted a manuscript to a publisher. How can you prepare for rejection?

Publishers are often very tactful while wooing authors. Their reservations are shared after you cash the advance check. It would take several books to describe all of the mistakes we authors sometimes make. Here’s a list of a few steps you can take that will help you avoid them.

Until you actually put your money where your book is, you really do not know anything at all about what self publishing is and what is expected of a self-​published author. These are some of the things you should be aware of before you self-​publish your book.