Indie Author Magazine Featuring Kate Pickford

EDITS. The dreaded red ink of doom. Seeing your marked-up manuscript can kill your enthusiasm faster than a hot knife through butter.

Poorly edited books will drive readers crazy - and leave 1-star scathing reviews. Worse, they can report your manuscript to the retailers, causing them to yank your books completely.

★ In this issue of Indie Author Magazine, you'll learn what freely available techniques bestselling authors use to avoid editing disasters.

Read these articles to learn what successful indies know:

✓ What the different levels of editing are - and how to determine which you need.

✓ How to find the perfect editor and what to ask before you hire them.

✓ What affordable tools you can use to edit your own manuscript. We break them down!

In this issue, learn all about editing, and meet Kate Pickford, our featured author, and a powerhouse author, editor, and all-around inspiration. She shares insight that can save you time and money when it's time to edit your manuscript.

Plus:

• How do top-earning authors effectively use ARC and BETA READERS?
• Discover what readers of YA and DYSTOPIAN FICTION expect and how you can satisfy them.
• Learn how to bootstrap your editing process without sacrificing quality.
• Implement Ten Tips for GOODREADS - the app that gets a bad rap, but can triple your sales.
• What's the latest technique for ISBN numbers and how do you protect your work?
• Get serious about editing software- compare the popular tools and choose the one for you.
• Read reviews of top editing books for indie authors
• Peruse Podcast Picks you need to bookmark and listen to every week
• Learn the technology tools the top-selling authors use (plus tutorials!)

BONUS: How do you conquer crippling criticism? Monica Leonelle shares how you can filter the good feedback from the harmful.