Self publishing
A series of blog posts about the process of self publishing.
Self-publishing 4 – beta readers and critique partners
So, you've finished your draft and done some editing on it, what's next? Before you publish it you should have some other people read it and give you comments. These can either be beta readers or critique partners. I'll go through the differences below. Beta readers...
Self publishing 3 – self-editing
Just writing a piece of novel-length prose is hard enough, but then you have to polish it and revise it to make it even better. The first draft of a story is often referred to as a vomit draft - just writing it all down as fast as you can to get it out. And then you...
Self publishing 2 – improving
In the previous post in this series I wrote about the importance of sitting down to write. You can't succeed self publishing books if you have nothing to publish. As well as writing, and the pure drive to get words on the page, you need to be looking to improve your...
Self publishing 1: writing
This is the first in a new series of blog posts documenting how to succeed with self-publishing. They will follow along as I do them and also be my story of how I did it. I hope they will help others succeed too, as well as providing me with a record of what I've...