Does Your Book Need an Introduction, Preface, or Foreword?
Preface, Foreword, or Introduction—which of these, if any, does your book need, and how are they different from each other? I’ll give you my advice as a substantive/developmental book editor with two decades’ experience editing both fiction and nonfiction. Novels don’t need any of them. Novels may, however, need a Prologue. (See my article ‘Does Your Novel Need a Prologue?’ Fiction authors, you can stop reading here, as the rest of this information is for nonfiction authors only) …
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How to Write an Author Bio Page for Your Book
Branding Your Book Title and Book Cover
Branding is as important for a book as it is for a business. It starts with branding your book title and book cover. A book title needs to convey the genre and indicate the nature of the content, but it needs to do so much more …
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