Good books:what does a good publisher really contribute?

Yesterday I downloaded samples of a couple of novels for my Kindle,and with some excitement began to read.

The Amazon site indicated the ideas and plots would be great. The novels could indeed have been great,but for me they weren’t. I guess next time I’ll be checking that a novel has been [...]

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Can I really do this? Do I really want to try?

I’ve just been reviewing the last post,and the most important thing is missing.

It sounds like everything is going smoothly and we’re brimming with confidence,but that just isn’t true.

Every day I wonder what the hell we think we’re up to. We aren’t up to this. We don’t have the knowledge,the skills,[...]

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Rising Star 10:Star is progressing,here’s an extract

As energy and enthusiasm creeps back after two years of ME (see this post) I’m back working on the novel originally called Sunken Star. At last I feel I’m getting somewhere. The novel is not quite complete,and weighed in at 133,000 words before I started this latest edit. I’m now well over half-way through [...]

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Rising Star 8:brainstorming

Some thoughts on brainstorming effectively,and how the novel ‘Ted’is benefiting. [...]

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Rising Star 7:considering aspects of being a publisher

BeWrite Books are a small publishing house specialising in fiction. To some extent they are a model of what we want to be. [...]

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Rising star 0:A new category

The first of a new series about how a real novel is being written (the easy bit),and how the author attempts to sell and then publicise the end product. [...]

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