Hey everyone! Welcome again to Me, Me, Me Monday. I want to start by telling you how excited I am. Red the Were Hunter, which is the first book in my Fairelle Series has finalled in another contest. I found out yesterday.
I am super excited because this is the second contest it has placed in and this it the first book that I am self publishing. It is being released on May 1st.
So, to talk a bit about where I left off last week, I got lots of great advice from other amazing Self Publishers. And one of the best pieces of advice is do first things first. Write the book. Well, I’m assuming that most people are there or almost there. The next is, don’t just put it up there. You need to edit it, and edit it, and edit it and you need to then have someone else edit it. You need critique partners, good ones, beta readers, and then when you’re done with that, you need to hire a freelance editor to look at it. YES, YOU DO! You make think you don’t but you do.
There are lots of great freelancers who aren’t outrageously priced that are excited to work with indie writers. You may not agree with everything they say, that’s your prerogative, seeing is how it’s your book, but you do need other sets of eyes on your book that don’t know everything you know.
So the first piece of advice that I got was, get a freelance editor. In the same vein, also get a proofreader. I have one I love, but if you can’t afford one, get a critique partner who is really good with proofreading to look it over at minimum.
So there is my first piece of advice for self publishing. Next week we’ll talk a little about should you, or should you not, start your own publishing company. Have a great week!