Sentences with phrase «money hiring editors»

Consequently, I spent time and money hiring editors and a graphic designer so the book would be as good as it could be.

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Late last year, Fusion seemed full of promise: the company was hiring a number of leading writers and editors, such as former Atlantic editor Alexis Madrigal and former Reuters writer Felix Salmon, and was spending fairly large sums of money in order to do so.

So spend the money to hire a professional editor and take the time to have someone (other than yourself) read it after it has been edited.

It has to hurt — you work hard for the «prestige» of being accepted by a big publisher, and then all of a sudden, some guy who revised his work using meetup.com groups and hired an editor off the internet, then used a cheap program to format it, and a cover off fiverr.com... he's making more money than you are.

Technically, an indie can put a book out without spending a dime (though hiring an editor, at the least, is recommended), meaning that even 99 - cent ebooks can result in tidy profits, whereas traditional publishers must put a lot more money into the process and can't afford price points like that, at least not in the long run.

I hired a professional editor and a publisher that cost quite a bit of money.

Cost and timing are important factors, but hire a legitimate editor or you may as well burn the money you'll spend along with your manuscript.

Hiring an editor too soon is a waste of money.

You definitely want to hire an editor at some stage — even if it's just a copy editor or proofreader — but there are ways to save money on this process by doing some of it yourself.

There are several reasons why would you want to spend the money to hire an editor.

Best advice I heard is when you start writing your novel start putting away money every month, so when you get to the end, you have money to hire an editor, (and cover artist if your self - publishing).

Ch 5.2 Hiring Your Team (Editors, Cover Artists) While you can go DIY on everything for your indie publishing business, I don't recommend it, especially once you start to make money and can afford to reinvest in your growing business.

And you would need money to hire an editor, your own publicist, and for marketing your own work, too.

But I hope that if I query 300 agents and NONE of them thinks they can sell my book, by then I'll have saved up enough money to hire a good editor to tell me whether the fault is in the business or my writing.

There should be no shame if an indie author (or self - published author, whatever you want to call them) decides to invest their own money to hire editors, book doctors, cover artists, publicists or publishers.

It may seem tempting to put your book out there immediately and start earning money, but before you do, you still need to hire an editor.

Correct me if you disagree, Jodie, but if an author only has a little money to spend, I'd say hire a copy editor to be sure the text is free of typos, misspellings and basic grammar errors.

If you think of writing as a career, you might want to spend more money to make sure what you create is a quality product (e.g. hiring an editor or a ghostwriter).

More importantly, these jobs don't require huge publishers with lots of money: authors can hire editors and cover designers by the hour or for flat rates, without giving up the majority of their books» revenue forever!

I've hired a professional editor, and just need to save up enough money to actually have her do her job.

It costs money to hire an editor, cover designer and publishing coach to make it good or, at the very least, make it better.

Why take the time, energy, and money to do all the work yourself (or hire designers / editors to assist you) when you could pitch the book to traditional publishers, hand the book over to them, claim a nice advance, and sit back while they do the heavy lifting?

Or the money to hire a freelance editor, graphic artist, and other professionals the way a larger publisher would have done.

As I find myself stressing over finding an artist for my next book, and still don't have money to cover an editor, I ask myself, why pay a bunch of different people whose quality I can not truly be sure of, when I can hire a company with the backing of Penguin, and produce a better quality book.

There are many good reasons to hire a professional editor, but also a number of compelling reasons to hold off and save your money.

According to their campaign page, they needed money to print the first 1000 copies, get an ISBN, hire an editor, and pay the artists who illustrated the book.

I'll do it for large sums of money, though I think Anthony would be better advised to hire a very old - fashioned professional editor.