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For ESL writers who are afraid of the big bad publishing world out there, a step-by-step guide on how to publish your book in English – or your mother tongue.
The ebook revolution is here. You don't need an agent for your fiction work in the twenty-first century. Be bold and go where everybody else is going – you might land a traditional contract under your own terms at some point! Happy writing and best of luck!
Barbara G.Tarn is a fiction writer who has been publishing her books independently since 2011. This is her story. The publishing world is constantly changing, so your mileage may vary...
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Barbara G.Tarn had an intense life in the Middle Ages that stuck to her through the centuries. She prefers swords to guns, long gowns to mini-skirts, and even though she buried the warrior woman, she deplores the death of knights in shining chainmail. She likes to think her condo apartment is a medieval castle, unfortunately lacking a dungeon to throw noisy neighbors and naughty colleagues in. Also known as the Lady with the Unicorns, these days she prefers to add a touch of fantasy to all her stories, past and present – when she’s not wandering on her fantasy world of Silvery Earth or in her Star Minds futuristic universe. She’s a writer, sometimes artist, mostly a world-creator and story-teller. Two of her stories received an Honorable Mention at the Writers of the Future contest. She writes, draws, ignores her day job and blogs every other day.
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How to Publish Your Book in English When You're Not a Native Speaker - Barbara G.Tarn
How to Publish Your Book in English
When You're Not a Native Speaker
by Barbara G. Tarn
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Barbara G.Tarn copyright © 2016
electronic edition by Unicorn Productions
February 2016
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Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 – Write your Best Book
Chapter 2 – Send it out to beta READERS
Chapter 3 – Edit according to comments and your guts
Chapter 4 – Send out to editor/proofreader
Chapter 5 – Final pass and formatting
Chapter 6 – Release the baby!
Chapter 7 – Blog or social media
Chapter 8 – Shout it out. Once!
Chapter 9 – Repeat all of the above
Chapter 10 – Final thoughts and recommended reading
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Blurb
For ESL writers who are afraid of the big bad publishing world out there, a step-by-step guide on how to publish your book in English – or your mother tongue.
The ebook revolution is here. You don't need an agent for your fiction work in the twenty-first century. Be bold and go where everybody else is going – you might land a traditional contract under your own terms at some point! Happy writing and best of luck!
Barbara G.Tarn is a fiction writer who has been publishing her books independently since 2011. This is her story. The publishing world is constantly changing, so your mileage may vary...
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Introduction
Who am I? Well, first of all, I'm not a young writer, since I'm half a century. I've been writing since my teens, which doesn't mean that everything I wrote is worth publishing. Quite the opposite. Some of those stories were totally dreadful, but I had a lot of fun writing them. You know the theory of one million words of crap
? I wrote those and more before I came out of my writing cave, wondering why publishers weren't knocking at my door.
Now, I come from the age of the typewriter. With the new millennium, I started going to book fairs and creative writing courses (which started only around 2001 in Italy, probably since the internet had informed us that in the US there was such a thing as creative writing
). So I started to understand how things worked a little better.
I improved my craft and then started researching publishers. At the same time, I thought, Why don't I write in English? I'd have so many more readers, since Italians don't read!
But the thought of writing in a second language was scary at first.
I watched a lot of movies,
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