After a few weeks of ups and downs I have gotten my 1st book, Give Me Forever back from my editor. She did copy edits for me and boy did I need it!
Now that I have it back and have looked over her corrections, I'm lost on how to proceed. It's a word doc & she used the editing tool and I get how I can accept or deny her changes, but I don't know where to go from there. How do I exit that editing program and save the doc to then have it formatted? (I use a company to do the formatting for me) Is there a tutorial for this lol?
While I waited for my book to come back from the editor, I completed a novella. It's a stand alone having nothing to do with my series. It's also not a paranormal, it's an erotic romance. I'm not sure if I will self publish it though. I think I might try subbing it to a publisher like Liquid Silver. I'm curious to see if there is any interest in it.
I've also been working on my next 2 books in my series.
I need more beta readers. I've lost a couple due to their schedules. So, I'm going to be looking for new ones.
In the month of Feb. I offered a sale on my books but only had a few sales. I'm not even sure how many. I have not been advertising my books in any way. I'm very active on Twitter but not so much on other social media.
I have now changed the prices of my books.
Novel (75,000 words) was $3.99, now is $2.99
Novella (20,000 words) was 2.99 now is $1.99
Novelette (10,000 words) was $1.99 now is .99
I feel more comfortable with these prices and will follow this model for my next releases.
More reviews have come in for my 2nd & 3rd books and they have all been very good. Average is about 4.5 stars for both. That makes me very happy!
Once I have my 1st book completed with the new edits I will rerelease it and then try to get out there to spread the word! I plan on doing a blog tour, a Goodreads giveaway and offer a giveaway on my website. We'll see how that goes.
I have been trying to keep up with my blog but I'm not so great at it! I'm working on that.
I'll post back with my sales figures for this year so far.
I also wanted to add that I went through a lot of self doubt about my writing recently. I had gotten bad reviews of my 1st book and I couldn't help taking them to heart. But, after reading them all (100x's lol) I realized something. It was all about the editing, not my story or my writing. When my editor (whom I respect very much & is a professional) confirmed what my reviewers said (I write well, my stories have great plots & they are enjoyable, it's just the errors in silly things like run on sentences and misspelled words that are the problem) I felt a renewed sense of confidence. I can do this! And I will do this the right way going forward. I will always use a copy editor!
Now that I have it back and have looked over her corrections, I'm lost on how to proceed. It's a word doc & she used the editing tool and I get how I can accept or deny her changes, but I don't know where to go from there. How do I exit that editing program and save the doc to then have it formatted? (I use a company to do the formatting for me) Is there a tutorial for this lol?
While I waited for my book to come back from the editor, I completed a novella. It's a stand alone having nothing to do with my series. It's also not a paranormal, it's an erotic romance. I'm not sure if I will self publish it though. I think I might try subbing it to a publisher like Liquid Silver. I'm curious to see if there is any interest in it.
I've also been working on my next 2 books in my series.
I need more beta readers. I've lost a couple due to their schedules. So, I'm going to be looking for new ones.
In the month of Feb. I offered a sale on my books but only had a few sales. I'm not even sure how many. I have not been advertising my books in any way. I'm very active on Twitter but not so much on other social media.
I have now changed the prices of my books.
Novel (75,000 words) was $3.99, now is $2.99
Novella (20,000 words) was 2.99 now is $1.99
Novelette (10,000 words) was $1.99 now is .99
I feel more comfortable with these prices and will follow this model for my next releases.
More reviews have come in for my 2nd & 3rd books and they have all been very good. Average is about 4.5 stars for both. That makes me very happy!
Once I have my 1st book completed with the new edits I will rerelease it and then try to get out there to spread the word! I plan on doing a blog tour, a Goodreads giveaway and offer a giveaway on my website. We'll see how that goes.
I have been trying to keep up with my blog but I'm not so great at it! I'm working on that.
I'll post back with my sales figures for this year so far.
I also wanted to add that I went through a lot of self doubt about my writing recently. I had gotten bad reviews of my 1st book and I couldn't help taking them to heart. But, after reading them all (100x's lol) I realized something. It was all about the editing, not my story or my writing. When my editor (whom I respect very much & is a professional) confirmed what my reviewers said (I write well, my stories have great plots & they are enjoyable, it's just the errors in silly things like run on sentences and misspelled words that are the problem) I felt a renewed sense of confidence. I can do this! And I will do this the right way going forward. I will always use a copy editor!