Proofreading
EBooks sell, but they have to be good eBooks. British author Stephen Leather has been a published writer for 25-years. He says “the vast majority of self-published eBooks are bad. Worse than bad. Awful. There, I’ve said it.”
Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, etc., have no quality standards. Anyone can publish anything. Luckily, what Leather thinks is bad can be fixed. He goes on -
By “bad” I don’t just been badly formatted or lacking originality. I mean badly written. Bad punctuation. Clichéd descriptions. Clunky dialogue. And here’s the thing. When I hear “Indie” writers talking about their books, all they seem to talk about is how they go about marketing their work. How they blog, how they work their Facebook contacts, how they post on the forums. I never hear them talking about how they want to improve their craft. For most of the ones I come across it’s all about the selling. I get emails all the time from “Indie” writers asking me what the secret is to selling a lot of eBooks. I don’t get any asking how they can become better writers.
I can help you with those things. I spend a quarter century as a journalist and newsroom manager. As such, I copy edited tens of thousands of scripts written by scores of reporters. You can get the same service from me. I’ll proofread your book, check punctuation and spelling, look for bad dialog and descriptions, look for logical inconsistencies, etc.
Email me, or telephone at the number in the sidebar on the left.
Stephen Leather’s book “Nightfall” is available at Amazon. It begins as a police procedural and turns into a horror novel. A good read.
Relax and let me proof your book
