After a great pause, because of my sickness, I wanna start this blog again. Now I'll be writting in English. Why? This is the best way to get some revenue from my writting work. As I was ill, I found the thing I want to put my strength in: Self Publishing.
As I know, my language is still subject to improve, so the first theme I want to touch is Proofreading. Proofreading your article is one of the most important steps in self publishing. When you send your article off to be produced it will be published exactly as you send it, with mistakes and all other bugs in it. Some people think that this way published articles look "amateurish". One of the reasons for this is that many self published authors publish their works with spelling and grammar errors. Don't let yourself be one of those authors. Ask someone you know well to check the work of yours, before you send off it to the publisher
Then, when you are done, ask your family do the same. If they point you a mistake, don't be ungenerous. Correct it! If you catch a mistake after it has been sent off you can probably still correct it, but at a price. How much? If we speak on online-writting correction is priceless, until the article wasn't deployed on many of servers. If we speak on newspaper article or book story there are a few examples of what some companies charged to make corrections:
AuthorHouse: Before publication the cost of corrections runs $2.00 per correction plus a $25.00 minimum fee. A new printed proof copy is $35.00. If you need to make a correction after the book has gone into publication the cost is $225.00.
Trafford: The cost of corrections is $55.00 per hour with a one hour minimum. A new proof after the corrections are made is $15.00.
In addition to this price, having to correct mistakes will also cost time. Corrections can take weeks or even months to be completed.
1 comment:
Good post.
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