He Said: The question put to us is: How many beta readers are enough before you publish? To answer this, I first have to define where I put beta reading in the editing process. For me, there are three steps in getting your book ready to publish. The first two, proofing and beta reading, can be interchanged (time wise) and are… Read more »
Welcome All! For the first time, this HSSS is actually going to start with, She said… Quite often you hear the old adage that you should write what you know. If that were the truth, fiction genres like fantasy, sci-fi, paranormal romance and the like wouldn’t offer very many books to their audiences, now would they? But if you write… Read more »
How important is your cover art and book blurb? He Said: It’s critical! Your cover art and book blurb is what is going to attract your potential readers to buy and read your book. As such, they need to do several things Cover Art: Attract attention. You want your cover art to pull the readers eye to it. It should… Read more »
He says: Yes! Uh, No. Uh, kinda both. (I’m very confused. But then, I’m a love story author so, what did you expect?) I was taught to say “Thank you for reading my book and taking the time to do a review. I appreciate your comments and your helping me grow as an author.” Seriously, as an author, we know… Read more »
He Said Ashley brought this topic up and honestly, I never even thought about this till she mentioned it. I’m not sure where she comes up with this stuff but the more I thought about it the more I thought it was a good He Said/She Said topic. (Don’t tell her that as her head will just get bigger…. Read more »
She said… So, as someone who has never written a book – yet – I sometimes don’t realize how important all the different components can be. However, I think my author partner will agree that the most important part of the sale of an actual book is the cover. When I peruse the sections of Amazon, or an actual brick… Read more »
He said… As Ashley, and most of my friends will tell you, I’m different. I have always viewed things in a different light, taken a different approach or looked for ways to use things that one might normally ignore. Thus, one of the things that always surprise me when I read a book, especially a Kindle book, is how ignored… Read more »