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Do you want to write a Best-seller? (Part 3)
By Arthur Zulu
“He who whose face gives no light shall never become a star.”—William Blake
In the second part of this series, attention was drawn to the importance of styling, promoting, and timing your work if it must become a best-seller. But other things are involved in this.
Get a good publisher
Your success and stardom or your weal and woe, starts with the publisher. Note this: there are more Shylocks than Samaritans in that family. Or better still, more sharks than the friendly whales.
You will know a good publisher from the contract. Examine it critically. Some seemingly "good" contracts will not give you the full right of your book till you die! If you do not understand the document, get an attorney to examine and interpret it for you.
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Or you could contact an author who has published with the potential publisher for advice. The author will tell you the truth because some of them are already going through Catholic hell with their publishers--legal suits over rights, royalties, and so forth.
You could also check with other sites for information about the publisher. I have earlier provided you the most credible site to check up with. The site owner gives the most updated, fearless critique of all the publishers. He throws his darts without giving a heck whether it lands in the White House.
A good publisher should give you the right of your book, pay your royalties regularly, and--mark this--promote your book. There are few of such ones. The majority are hypocrites.
Publish in different formats
It is best to make your book available in many formats. The wisdom in this is that sales will be coming in from different sources—from just one book.
What did they say about one man’s meat? The fact is that people have many choices. So publish your book in hardcover, paperback, e-book and as an audio book. Also have it put in movie, DVD, and video.
The present technology can handle all of that. Look around and you will see that all the selling books today are produced in that way. And there are even readers who will buy your book in more than one format. Why don’t you make hay as the sun shines.
Keep revising your book
The man that would write an error free manuscript has not been born. Or maybe he lives on second earth out there in outer space. Why is that so? Because the writer is an imperfect creature. This means that your book can be revised even after publication.
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