iUniverse Post-Publishing Tips: How to Create Your Own Publicity

How can you get noticed in a world where hundreds of thousands of books are being released? iUniverse Writer’s Tips tells you how.

In today’s media-saturated culture, it can be challenging for an author to get noticed. So how do you go about creating your own publicity, and driving awareness of you and your books? Try these techniques….

YouTube: Make a trailer. Almost everyone has access to a camera that takes video and editing software like Microsoft movie maker on their computer. Keep it simple, and don’t go overboard with effects. Upload it, and tweet the link to your video, and share it on your Facebook page and your blog. Be sure to add plenty of relevant keywords, so that people will find it when they search for other related topics.

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iUniverse Shows You How To Go Over the Editorial Process

iUniverse looks in depth at that most crucial stage of your writing that a slight botch of it can disappoint your readers and put all your efforts in vain.

Editing is an arcane profession carried out by individuals, often working freelance, who offer a unique and important service for authors, and who lend their personal talent and insight to a manuscript.

As an author who has decided to self-publish, you should understand the editorial process a book undergoes in the traditional publishing world. You must give your book the same level of care and attention, and recognize that proper editorial treatment is much more than simply proofreading for grammar and spelling errors.

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How To Self Publish Stress-Free the iUniverse Way

iUniverse believes that now is a great time to be an Author. Set yourself up for an enjoyable and exciting writing experience. Hopefully you are writing from the heart because you can’t help doing otherwise. After devoting so much time to something, your hopes are up that others would take time to notice your work and hear what you have to say.

Time is money and writing a book is time-consuming. It’s is then fair to seek recompense for your work, but remember that writing the book is only a small part of monetizing your effort. You can’t sell lemonade without a stand.

iUniverse Publishing suggests the following things to consider to .

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iUniverse Tips on How To Avoid Common Writing Mistakes

The best writers have always self-edited their work to be concise and overflowing with nuance. You want your sentences like punch bursting with flavor, and not watered down. This is the art of writing and it takes practice. Hemingway said, “My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”

Evaluate your work as you go. At each comfortable stopping point, writers should re-read what is on the page. iUniverse Publishing offers you the following advice.

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10 iUniverse Tips on How To Edit Your Drafts

Before handing on your manuscript to your editor, it’s a must to take care of the basics to facilitate the editing of your book. If you think you have no use for an editor and you can weed out unnecessary words and correct misspellings and grammar slips all by yourself, we hope to ease your task with these iUniverse editing tips.

Learn the rules as a foundation for book editing skills.

When editing a book, it is important to use grammar and punctuation correctly. There are several resources available to help you improve these skills. The Brief English Handbook by Edward A. Dornan and Robert Dees is a required reading for English majors at American universities. It covers grammar, punctuation, and the writing process among other English skills, in great detail.

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