Recently, I did a post headlined the best advice I can offer which was essentially the text of my response to a writer re getting his (her?) book published. As I answer, as much as I can*, all kinds of questions via email and on social media (even as I try to pick up advice for the challenges and hurdles I face), I smell a possible series. Or maybe not. Anyway, here’s another ‘the best advice I can offer’ drawn from the text of a response I posted to a writer who wondered when you get over the fear of being edited.
My response:
I have published several books with publishers of different sizes, and my experience is you don’t get over the fear but you do it anyway. It’s important to try to make the book as good as it can be before it’s out in public – where…
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