http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/13/carlos-acosta-from-ballet-to-galley-proof.
Bloomsbury have commissioned.
I trust they'll have a better spellchecker than I do.
Self Publishing Page 3
The new opportunities for writers are amazing--I wrote romance for years for Harlequin and other publishers, and I'm grateful to them because I earned a good living. But the restrictions and the editor input were discouraging. I think Kindle and Smashwords, etc. are such an improvement on the old system--and I've always believed agents were a huge stumbling block to getting published at all. The problem is with quality. The race to get a book up on Kindle seems to often skip the editing process, and the result is a less than acceptable read. In my opinion, if the quality is bad, Amazon is soon going to decide to charge writers to publish, which is unfortunate. So lets make certain the books we "throw" up on Kindle are the very best we can make them. It costs to have a professional edit your work, but that book is going to be up and (hopefully) selling for the foreseeable future. Isn't it worth a small investment and a bit of care before we hit the publish button?
Quote: don rushmore @ January 20 2012, 7:08 PM GMTHow many books has Carlos Acosta written? I only know of one - his autobiography. He's probably quite qualified to write that.
How did you come to know about it Don?
Before self publishing, try this!
http://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/wrg/2808822307.html
Bound to work...
Quote: Marc P @ January 20 2012, 11:25 PM GMTHow did you come to know about it Don?
I adore ballet.
Nobody but nobody is interested in short stories these days
Quote: bushbaby @ January 24 2012, 12:07 AM GMTNobody but nobody is interested in short stories these days
But that is a complete contradiction!
