How to Publish Your Book in English When You're Not a Native Speaker
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For ESL writers who are afraid of the big bad publishing world out there, a step-by-step guide on how to publish your book in English – or your mother tongue.
The ebook revolution is here. You don't need an agent for your fiction work in the twenty-first century. Be bold and go where everybody else is going – you might land a traditional contract under your own terms at some point! Happy writing and best of luck!
Barbara G.Tarn is a fiction writer who has been publishing her books independently since 2011. This is her story. The publishing world is constantly changing, so your mileage may vary...
Barbara G.Tarn
Barbara G.Tarn had an intense life in the Middle Ages that stuck to her through the centuries. She prefers swords to guns, long gowns to mini-skirts, and even though she buried the warrior woman, she deplores the death of knights in shining chainmail. She likes to think her condo apartment is a medieval castle, unfortunately lacking a dungeon to throw noisy neighbors and naughty colleagues in. Also known as the Lady with the Unicorns, these days she prefers to add a touch of fantasy to all her stories, past and present – when she’s not wandering on her fantasy world of Silvery Earth or in her Star Minds futuristic universe. She’s a writer, sometimes artist, mostly a world-creator and story-teller. Two of her stories received an Honorable Mention at the Writers of the Future contest. She writes, draws, ignores her day job and blogs every other day.
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How to Publish Your Book in English When You're Not a Native Speaker - Barbara G.Tarn
How to Publish Your Book in English
When You're Not a Native Speaker
by Barbara G. Tarn
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Barbara G.Tarn copyright © 2016
electronic edition by Unicorn Productions
February 2016
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Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 – Write your Best Book
Chapter 2 – Send it out to beta READERS
Chapter 3 – Edit according to comments and your guts
Chapter 4 – Send out to editor/proofreader
Chapter 5 – Final pass and formatting
Chapter 6 – Release the baby!
Chapter 7 – Blog or social media
Chapter 8 – Shout it out. Once!
Chapter 9 – Repeat all of the above
Chapter 10 – Final thoughts and recommended reading
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Blurb
For ESL writers who are afraid of the big bad publishing world out there, a step-by-step guide on how to publish your book in English – or your mother tongue.
The ebook revolution is here. You don't need an agent for your fiction work in the twenty-first century. Be bold and go where everybody else is going – you might land a traditional contract under your own terms at some point! Happy writing and best of luck!
Barbara G.Tarn is a fiction writer who has been publishing her books independently since 2011. This is her story. The publishing world is constantly changing, so your mileage may vary...
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Introduction
Who am I? Well, first of all, I'm not a young writer, since I'm half a century. I've been writing since my teens, which doesn't mean that everything I wrote is worth publishing. Quite the opposite. Some of those stories were totally dreadful, but I had a lot of fun writing them. You know the theory of one million words of crap
? I wrote those and more before I came out of my writing cave, wondering why publishers weren't knocking at my door.
Now, I come from the age of the typewriter. With the new millennium, I started going to book fairs and creative writing courses (which started only around 2001 in Italy, probably since the internet had informed us that in the US there was such a thing as creative writing
). So I started to understand how things worked a little better.
I improved my craft and then started researching publishers. At the same time, I thought, Why don't I write in English? I'd have so many more readers, since Italians don't read!
But the thought of writing in a second language was scary at first.
I watched a lot of movies,