DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE PUBLISHED
By Arthur L Burton III
To be published every writers dream. There is a way to ensure that your manuscript is published and that is to sell yourself to your readers. In the beginning, you could land an Agent, produce a manuscript and like magic you were published if your manuscript was good. Now the business has changed because there are so many writers just like you, and the bookstores are full of unsold books. Corporations like Barnes and Noble, Waldenbooks, and Borders Stores have taken over but they only accept known writers on their shelves. It takes a lot of marketing on the writer’s part to ensure that their books will sell once it is published. So many Authors make the mistake of paying internet companies to place their websites in a top position on Google and Yahoo, but even if your site is, number one who would know how to access your website. The new wave now is doing it yourself and that way you are in control. While writing your manuscript it is important that you begin making your name known to readers in your genre. The website should not wait to be designed once you finish your manuscript, but once you have the idea of writing your manuscript. The longer your name appears on the web and in posters and in your local newspapers the better your book will sell once it is on the market. Writing articles is one of the best techniques of building an online portfolio. Think about this for a moment, when you go to buy a book by a known writer, you find it, you carry it to the counter and you buy it. When you are looking for a new writer, you read the back of the book. The story line might be excellent but the writer does not have an extensive bio and now it a chance that you buy it. A writer of a mechanical book who has in his bio a degree in mechanical engineering will allow you to feel more comfortable with the information that is in the book, but if he has a degree in social services but he wrote a mechanical book you might pick the other author with the experience. If the writer has been working for mechanical magazine and has it in his bio, then it does not matter what he degree is in because he has proven himself with his articles. A writer needs to understand that marketing is the only guarantee that you will have success as a writer. There are some lucky ones, who wrote a novel and got a best seller, but there are more who have excellent well-researched novels and no one has ever heard of them because they do not market themselves.
Okay so what do you do?
You need to become somewhat of a graphic designer in order to save some money on business cards and flyers. The first thing you do is buy a software program called Adobe Photoshop and design yourself some flyers. The flyers should look professional and should contain colorful pictures to draw attention to the flyer to make people want to read it. The next you need is some business cards, you can download the templates from Microsoft for business cards and for twenty dollars go to staples and buy the business card paper and make your own cards. Please do not forget in the midst of all of the other things you still need to concentrate on your manuscript. There are so many ways to promote yourself free on the web that you can save a bundle by taking 20 minutes a day and research marketing information for your website and your unwritten manuscript.
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