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The Complete INDIE Editor: 55 Essential Copy-edits for the Professional Independent Author

The Complete INDIE Editor: 55 Essential Copy-edits for the Professional Independent Author

          
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Stay ahead of the competition with this easy to use, step-by-step proofreading guide from international bestselling author, K.J.Heritage.

When you publish as an Indie Author, be it on an electronic device via Kindle publishing or as a printed novel via print-on-demand services, readers are evaluating your writing by using Free First Chapter, etc. With so many novels competing against one another, you need all the tools you can get to convert interest into a buy...

Welcome to the world of copy-editing--the revision, correction, and adaptation of a piece of writing for publication. An edit is the singular name given to an individual edit or group of edits in the process of copy-editing. By using this guide as a grammar workbook, you can easily apply each of the fifty-five edits to your novel.

Use these Copy-edits to:
Find redundant adjectives and overused adverbs
Banish boring words
Learn dialogue writing
Write characters more effectively
Discover over thirty overused words and phrases such as that, it, up/down, was/were, had, even, got, etc.
Reduce overuse of exclamations and the ellipsis
Use italics, quotations and capitalisation properly
Target word pairs and homophones
Improve your proofreading and editing skills
Handle numbers and time effectively
Discover more about flow, show not tell, writing tenses, dialogue handling and more.

Applying these copy-edits to your fiction will allow reviewers and readers to evaluate your novel purely on the strength of your story and not on clumsy and weak prose, overuse of adverbs, repetition, and flabbiness. And in the process, you will learn to become an experienced and competent copyeditor.

Your readers may not understand why your fiction is more engaging, but subconsciously they will respond to the improved flow, the more immediate prose, and leaner sentences.

The Complete Indie Editor will not tell you how to write a novel, nor how to write like Tolstoy, or any other author. It will certainly not explain how to write bestselling fiction, how to make money, or guarantee you marketing success. What it will guarantee, is to give your novel the best chance it can get in a tough, competitive, and new publishing world.

Getting readers past page one, despite your 'explosive, fast paced hitting-the-ground-running opening', is what this guide is all about.

Let's put it in a nutshell:

The Complete INDIE Editor is no grammar for dummies guide, it is a one-stop copy-editing shop to improve your novel before publication.

"An indispensable guide for amateurs and professionals of any theme of word-based creation."

"This is a very useful and easily understandeable guide for new writers trying to self publish"

"A very useful tool to have on hand."

"A must read for any writer to avoid sending a clanger of a draft to a reviewer or publisher! Great value."

"The style is clear and accessible. This is a book that I have found invaluable as I rewrite and revise my fiction drafts. Highly recommended"

"...gives you simple, clear rules and 55 easy steps to check your book for. It won't turn a poor writer into a great one, but it will help you avoid common mistakes and give you tools to turn telling into showing"

"An extremely useful guide for editing manuscripts, written as a set of editing tips."

"This is a great resource for authors. I have used it and it works. I highly recommend this book. Great!"

About the Author: K.J.Heritage is an international bestselling UK author of mystery/crime sci-fi and epic fantasy-all with a strong emphasis on action and adventure. He was born in the UK in one of the more interesting previous centuries. Originally from Derbyshire, he now lives in the seaside town of Brighton. He is a tea drinker, Twitter aficionado and full-time human being. @MostlyWriting http: //kjheritage.com/join/


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781548109844
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 210
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 133 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1548109843
  • Publisher Date: 14 Jun 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 245 gr


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