Review: A Good Resource for Beginning Writers
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 1, 2014
The author breaks down writing a book in sequential steps.  I had to laugh at her notation that what you write in the book is not as  important that you wrote a book and had it professionally edited.  I found a couple of serious editing errors in her book but that is just nitpicking.  She takes you step by step through the process. She suggests that Kindle does give you a free ISBN number for their e-books but I am suggesting that you get your own ISBN number in case you have problems and want to take it away from Amazon.  You may as well because Bowker charges $125 for one number but only $250 for 10 numbers.  You should also consider doing a print book which requires another ISBN and audio books take another number as well.While she does give you a thorough explanation with contractor resources that you can outsource different parts of putting the book together, she does basically nothing to tell you how to promote your book. This is where the real work  starts and most authors fail miserably. The sad state of publishing is that 95% of all books published never sell more than a thousand copies in the life of the book.  This is strictly the author's fault because they did not do the hard work of promoting their book.One other nitpick, she did not put out an audio book nor does she give you any instruction on how to do that, but most authors never do to their own detriment.  Audio books are big profit makers and there is MUCH LESS COMPETITION IN THIS NICHE THAN PRINTED AND E BOOKS.