Editing Tips for Indie Authors

By Norman Price

Penned by a fellow author and professional editor, this modest book will help new independent authors on a limited budget to self-edit their prose and avoid the pitfalls awaiting them. It contains helpful guidance on formatting, spelling, punctuation, grammar, and determining the level of readability of the author's text. Copy-editing exercises are included, with fully edited versions for comparison.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Norman Price
• Release date: Jun 20, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301734146

Norman Price

A former soldier, senior lecturer and author of several mainstream textbooks, Norman Price has worked as an editor for many years. Having lived and worked for several years in the Far East, his first novel 'Share a Crooked Rickshaw' is an exotic, action-packed thriller set in the 1960s when Hong Kong was a British Crown Colony. His second novel 'Chen' is a highly charged thriller set in Singapore. His most recent non-fiction books are 'Editing Tips for Indie Authors' which made it to #1 in the Amazon Kindle Top 100 Paid list for Adult and Continuing Education books, and 'Key Writing Skills for Morons & Managers' which will prove helpful to all who wish to improve their written communication skills in the shortest possible time. Norman now lives in the delightful UK county of Pembrokeshire, and is a keen windsurfer.

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Editing Tips for Indie Authors

A Manuscript Appraisals Handbook

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About the author

In addition to his self-published eBook titles, Norman Price has had books published by George G. Harrap, Heinemann Educational Books, Edward Arnold, First & Best in Education Ltd., The Singapore Government, and the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority. He has worked as a professional editor for more than 25 years, during which time he has taught creative writing at Pembrokeshire College, and also served as a book reviewer of technical and fiction titles for various publishers. He is currently Editorial Director with Manuscript Appraisals, a leading UK-based literary and editorial agency (www.manuscriptuk.com).

Introduction

This modest handbook is for those of you who are writing or have written your manuscript and are intending to bypass the arduous traditional publishing route and publish your work independently. By so doing, you will guarantee publication, eliminate the heartache of rejection, and speed up the process of publication by one or more years. You will also enjoy a royalty payment rate of up to eight times that paid by the major publishing houses. The importance of competent copy-editing and an attractive cover cannot be over-emphasized if your new book is to achieve the success your efforts deserve. If you can afford and find a first class professional editor, the financial investment will surely prove money well spent. But as an 'Indie' author working on a tight budget, you have to arrange or do everything yourself, meaning cover-design, copy-editing, and product promotion.

Editing Tips for Indie Authors assumes you write well and have reasonably competent keyboard and word processing skills. This book will help you to avoid most of the obvious pitfalls and help you to copy-edit and hone your text to a commendable standard. We will proceed one step