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Invaluable Guidance for Authors
As your personal writing coach, Hal offers a wide range of services:
- Hal will read your manuscript and give sensitive, supportive, creative, and highly professional feedback that will:
- Point out your strongest points
- Suggest ways to sharpen your concepts (if non-fiction)
- Suggest ways to strengthen
character and story (if fiction)
- Discuss appropriateness of writing style for your readership
- Discuss the strength of the market you are writing for
- Communicate about the importance of focus in your book as well as how
to improve it
- What's your next step should be as you move toward final manuscript
and publication.
- Help you develop a strong selling proposal--the main way that non-fiction
works are presently sold to publishers--in order to get you an advance
against royalties to finish writing your book.
- Consult with you about how to find and work with a literary agent.
- Tell you about legal resources for writers.
- Coach you through any and all of the above processes and keep you moving
forward with your writing project.
- Discuss publishers, contracts, and advise you on the five key publishing
venues now available:
- Mainstream (mostly New York) publishing houses
- Highly respected independent publishers
- Self-publishing and independent book distribution
- Print on Demand (POD) publishing
- E-books (electronic books)
- Finally, Hal is gifted at fine-tuning any manuscript for publication, and
his services here are sought out by both authors and publishers.
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