After completing an MBA as a mature student I found myself with time on my hands. I started researching my family history (which is Viking) and ended up with a bundle of research. Someone suggested there maybe a book somewhere in my research. And there was. But this was just the start of my journey.
After completing my book I trudged around the traditional publishing houses for 2 long years and was dismayed at the treatment received.
I then stumbled upon self-publishing and was shocked at the mediocre services offered for the exhorbitant charges asked.
I was equally dismayed at the treatment of authors intending to self-publish - as if we are the uncleanest of the unclean - and I set about using my 25 years of business expertise to correct this.
Abela Publishing went live in September 2008. We offer the full range of publishing services to aspiring authors - Editing, Publishing, Printing and above all, a comprehensive Book Promotions campaign. The first ever "Hybrid Publishing" model.
We do not "look down" on authors wanting to self-publish. Instead we offer every assistance in smoothing the way to becoming a published author, treating authors, for that is what they are, with the dignity and respect that anyone who has created a manuscript deserves.
On Monday 21 February, an earthquake measuring 6.3 struck Christchurch, New Zealand which has resulted in serious structural damage and a significant loss of life.
These two books have been republished to raise funds for the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal. US$3.50 or GBP£3.00 (approx NZ$6.40) will be donated to the appeal from every copy sold via the URLs listed.
Not only will you donate to the appeal but you will end up with a sliver of Polynesian Mythology. Please be generous.
YOU ONLY LIVE - MAKE THE MOST OF IT!
A resonable person will adapt themselves to their surroundings.
An unreasonable person will adapt their surroundings to themselves.
Progress is therefore dependent on unreasonable people.
If you always do what you've always done
You'll always get what you've always got!
Dont wait for the right time for it to happen. Start now!
Try the internet, and of course that forgotten institution - your local library.
If you dont ask, you'll never receive.
A good book has a start, a middle and an end.
Dont try and write the first chapter on day one. Start by writing down the subject.
Then divide the subject into three sections - your start. middle and end.
make notes about what will be/should be in each section - on three separate pieces of paper.
Then divide each of the three sections into three again - just like before. By now you should have in effect nine chapters. Only this time, once you have the three sections outlined, add a bit more detail about what should be/would be/could be in each section.Its better to have more in at the start and then takesome out than to have too little to start with.
Once you have your detail, take each of the nine chapters and try and divide them into two - which will give you between 9 amd 18 chapters in all. More than enough for a book.
Dont think about chapter headings just yet, but continue to add detais and facts to each chapter.
And now you start to write, building the story line. Its OK to write the last chapter first. If you do this you know at the beginning just where you want to end. This can make writing the rest of the book easier - not EASY, but easier.
The publishing standard is to print approximately 350 words per page. Its good to aim at about 120 pages as anything less than 120 pages will cost just as much to print as 120 pages would. So a 120 page book will have approximately 42,000 words or about 2333 words per chapter. But this is not a hard and fast rule.
So what are you waiting for - GET TO IT!
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