How to Submit Your Book To A Publisher

When I first began my publishing business I used to accept book manuscripts from authors.

This was back in the day before digital publishing so every book had to be printed and shipped all over the world.

And you’d think that with so many authors competing for publication, that they’d follow instructions for submitting their manuscripts and only send their best work.

You’d think so, wouldn’t you?

Well you’d be wrong.

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If You Publish Books On Amazon, Don't Do This

A couple of weeks ago I published a review of a Kindle book that I'd downloaded.

I thought the book wasn't worth my reading time because it was nothing more than extracts from two of the author's other books mashed together.

I didn't gain any insight after reading the book because the extracts were incomplete extracts, in that, they told me about all the great things I was about to learn and how much it would change my life. Then it said to buy the author's other two books to learn more.

Learn more?

I hadn't learned anything yet.

Oh, that's a lie, I learned I didn't want to buy the two other books because I felt cheated.

The book I'd just read promised me that I'd learn so much and then told me nothing.

It was nothing more than a piece of promotional material.

And the cheek of it is that this "book" is being sold on Amazon.

Sold!

It's not a free download.

You have to buy it and yet it's nothing but a glorified sales page.

So I left a short review saying what I thought.

Now, you'd think that would be the end of it, wouldn't you?

But oh no.

The author of the book wasn't happy with what I'd written and replied to my review. And then replied again. Each time I received an email from Amazon about his response.

I'm not sure what he hopes to gain by responding to my review.

But it seems that he does it to everyone who leaves a review of his books.

EVERYONE!

How annoying is that?

No one wants to be hassled about their reviews.

This could put people off leaving reviews, or, more importantly, could put them off from buying more of your books.

If you're an author who publishes on Amazon, leave the reviewers alone.

It only makes you look bad and won't change their opinion of your book.

When you read a book and leave a review the last thing you expect is the author to get in touch with you about it.

Whether they like your review or not, it doesn't matter.

A review, good or bad, is a review.

Not an opening for discussion with the author.

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How to Write More Books Without Needing Extra Time

Finding enough time to write is a problem for many writers.

It's bad enough when you have other commitments like a full time job and/or a family, because these things can't really take a back seat when it comes to your time commitments.

But what do you do when you want to write books but you don't seem to be able to find the time to do it?

This is often a major dilemma because even when you do find time to write there are other things to take care of like website updates or blog posts to write or email waiting to be answered.

Well, I found a way to get more book writing done without needing more time to do it.

What I do is I write my books first.

When I sit down to write every day, the first thing I do is my book writing for an hour or two.

After that, I'll look at doing other things like checking my emails (ALWAYS a big time suck) and writing blog posts.

That way, I still work for the same amount of hours every day, but no matter what else comes up, I know that my book writing is done for the day.

And it's amazing how much writing I can do in just an hour or two a day.

No matter what time of day I sit down to work, as long as I do my book writing first, I know that my books will get written no matter what.

It's all a matter of prioritising.

Which is usually a lot easier said than done, but not when you commit to doing it.