Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.
My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past five years, I’ve helped more than 175 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I'm also the author of the 7 Minutes a Day... writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.
11/09/2018
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11/01/2018
21 Tips For Making And Selling Your Nonfiction Book
• Sales advantages of writing nonfiction books
• How to conduct an interview for book research
• How to structure your nonfiction book
• Potential disclaimers for your title page
• Your acknowledgements and dedication pages
• How to create your book's table of contents
• Forewords, prefaces and introductions
• How to handle direct quotations, paraphrases
• Write end of chapter summary in nonfiction books
• Enhance book with sidebars, breakout boxes
• Thinking up a title that sells your nonfiction book
• Make tables readable in your nonfiction book
• Create an index for your nonfiction book
• Writing your nonfiction book's bibliography
• Place hyperlinks in your nonfiction ebook
• Always review proof your book before okaying it
• How to write an author's bio
• Pay attention to your author's bio pic
• Seek endorsements for your nonfiction book
• Speak about book's topic to various groups
• Write articles to promote your nonfiction book
• BONUS: “Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.” - Oscar Wilde
Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.
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10/26/2018
45+ Fantastic Marketing Ideas for Authors
• Why you need to market your book
• Article directories
• Ask people about themselves
• Author's platform
• Backlinks to your website
• Back of room sales
• Blog conversations
• Blog tour
• Book club guide
• Bookmarks
• Business cards
• Carry your books around
• Discuss your book's topic online
• Distribution channels
• Donate copies of your book
• Email marketing campaign
• Email signature
• Excerpt from next book
• Exploit Your "Local" Status
• First book in series permanently free
• Free unpublished story
• Give away first in series
• Give away valuable content
• Help A Reporter Out
• Little Free Library
• Library
• Mainstream media
• Media kit
• Offer valuable content
• Online book tour
• Online storefronts
• Place free books around town
• Posting at high-traffic blogs
• Post PowerPoint presentations
• Presentations to pitch book
• Promo codes/coupons
• Pulse-pricing
• Radio interviews
• Reader's guide
• Television interview
• Spin it for a holiday
• Swap sample chapter with another author
• Wear your book title
• Website book promotions
• Web widgets
• Write then publish your next book
• Don't get hung up on watching book sales stats
• BONUS: Ways to advertise your book (mostly for free!)
Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.
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10/19/2018
3 Ways Authors Can Sell More Books Via YouTube
• Use YouTube to promote your book
• Aim for high production quality of YouTube video
• Ways to Edit Your YouTube Video
• BONUS: "The best advice on writing...is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming."
Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.
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10/06/2018
Book Promotion Tools You Need to Know
As a long-time book editor, I get the same questions over and over from my clients: How do I increase book sales? Can I get an article about my book in the local newspaper? What’s an author’s platform?
I’ve compiled answers to these and many related questions in my book 7 Minutes a Day to Promoting Your Book. It’s an easy-to-understand, step-by-step guide that takes authors who’ve self-published their book through the marketing process.
Penning a press release, setting up a website, utilizing social media sites, arranging book readings, landing radio and television interviews – I’ve helped hundreds of writers through these and myriad other techniques for selling your book. With 7 Minutes a Day to Promoting Your Book, you’ll quickly find your sales going up, motivating you to write another title!
7 Minutes a Day to Promoting Your Book has topped Amazon.com bestseller lists for writing and marketing and is available in both paperback and ebook.
Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.
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10/05/2018
8 Ways Authors Can Sell More Books on Twitter
• Tweet your book to popularity
• Put your Twitter profile text to work for you
• How to select a great Twitter profile picture
• Six great topics for authors to tweet about
• Four ways to write a great tweet that sell books
• When to promote your book using Twitter
• Maximize shares, retweets by using images
• Tips to ensure your Twitter photos sell books
• Promote your book by starting a Twitter chat
• BONUS: "It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way."
Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.
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09/28/2018
11 Social Media Tips Authors Can't Live Without
• Which social media is best to promote your book?
• Cheatsheet for social media photo sizes
• Follow social media etiquette during promos
• Add hashtags to your social media posts
• Use link shorteners for tidier promotions
• Promote books to young adults using their social media
• Use Reddit to promote young adult male books
• Place social media addresses in your book
• How to leverage Google+ for increased book sales
• Best time to promote your book on Google+
• When to promote your book using Tumblr
• BONUS: Five magic words that sell more books
Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.
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09/21/2018
5 Tips for Getting Awesome Reviews of Your Book
• Why you want reviews written about your book
• Where to find reviewers for your book
• Some guidelines for reviewing a book
• Include note asking readers to post a review
• Hold contest to get more reviews of your book
• BONUS: "Better (to) put a fox in a henhouse than to ask an author to judge his peers." - Jack McClelland
Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.
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09/14/2018
What You Must Know to Write an Author's Bio
• How to write an author's bio
• Pay attention to your author's bio pic
• BONUS: “The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it’s obscurity.”
Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.
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09/07/2018
9 Tips On How Authors Can Create A Media Kit
• Utilize mainstream media to promote book
• Create media kit to promote your book
• Yes, you can create your own media kit!
• How to write a press release for your book
• How to make your press release newsworthy
• What are "book specs" on a press release?
• Pay attention to your author's bio pic
• How to land a television or radio interview
• What to do if your press release is ignored
• BONUS: "A writer can't not write. If a writer can't write, a writer will bite."
Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.
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