Why Do You Need A Book About Subbing?
1. Because bad writing, despite your ‘explosive, fast paced hit-the-ground-running opening’ will turn readers off before they finish page one.
2. Because demonstrating your writing credentials not only on page one, but on all your pages is crucial to your success as a writer.
3. Because, most importantly, showing reviewers, agents and readers that you can write and write well, is the difference between a ‘buy’ and a ‘no thank you’.
Go Sub Yourself! is a fifty-five step guide to subbing your novel ready for submission or publication. By working through this English grammar and punctuation resource, you will apply each of the fifty-five subs to your novel.
These include:
*Redundant adjectives & overuse of adverbs
*Over thirty overused words & phrases such as that, it, up/down, was/were, had, even, got, etc.
*Overuse of exclamations and the ellipsis
*Proper use of italics, quotations & capitalisation
*Word pairs & homophones
*How to handle numbers & time
& a detailed description of flow, show not tell, writing tenses, dialogue handling and much more.
Why Is GO SUB YOURSELF! More Than A ‘How To Guide’?
1. Because it is a targeted ‘self editing’ resource you can use again and again.
2. Because following its simple steps will allow agents and publishers to evaluate your novel purely on the strength of your story and not on clumsy and weak prose, overuse of adverbs, repetition and flabbiness.
Very soon, your flow will improve, your prose will be more immediate and your sentences will become leaner and more engaging.
Why You Need Every Chance You Can Get
If you are interested in this guide, it is very likely you do not have an agent or the luxury of a bank of professionals whose only job is to make your novel the very best it can be. Quite simply, you are…
…on your own.
You may have 45,000 followers on Twitter, etc. – and agents will have their heads turned by figures like those – but if your fiction is poorly written, those numbers will mean nothing.
Why?
Because a bad product simply won’t sell and agents and publishers know this.
Authors sending in unfinished and unreadable manuscripts to agents and publishers is a daily occurrence. If you are publishing your novel on Kindle or have an eBook published elsewhere, readers are evaluating your writing by using ‘Look Inside’ and ‘Free First Chapter’, etc. With so many novels competing against one another, you need all the tools you can get to convert interest into a buy.
How Will I Benefit From This Guide?
One thing always stands out above everything: good writing. An author who knows their craft will always sway agents, publishers and readers.
This guide won’t tell you how to plot, how to create characters, how to write in first or third person, or how to write your first kick-ass chapter – what it will tell you, however, is how to avoid the numerous pitfalls common to modern novel writing.
Let’s put it in a nutshell: Go Sub Yourself! is a one-stop subbing shop to improve your novel before publication.
Still not convinced? Then let me invite you to visit Amazon and click on the ‘Look Inside Feature’ on the top left hand of the page and find out more.
Why?
Because this guide can seriously improve your writing.
Happy Subbing!
Targeted Age Group:
12+
What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
Read voraciously, write everyday. Oh…and buy this guide!
Author Bio:
I started writing at about age three, mainly in crayon. I moved on to marker pens and spray cans in my teen years before deciding on some kind of plastic tapping device.
I was born in the previous century in one of the more exciting ‘out-there’ decades. I am a two metre tall biped from the genus Homo Sapiens and, like many of my species, I am simultaneously amazed and confused by what I like to call ‘This Life Thing’.
Some of ‘This Life Thing’ has involved me working as a driver’s mate, factory gateman, barman, labourer, telesales operative, sales assistant, warehouseman, Student Union President, University IT helpdesk guy, British Rail signal software designer, Premiership Football website designer, gigging musician, graphic designer, stand-up comedian, sound engineer, Improv artist, magazine editor, novel ghost-writer and Wide Web journo – although I don’t like to talk about it. Mostly.
I have (at some time or other) lived on most of the Earth’s major continents and when not travelling to varied and interesting worlds all over the cosmos, I find myself residing in the county of East Sussex in the seaside town of Brighton.
Oh, I am also the author of ‘GO SUB YOURSELF! – 50 Subs to Make Your NOVEL Stand Out from the Competition’: http://ow.ly/mhD58 & the upcoming Young Adult Sci-fi novel, ‘BLUE INTO THE RIP’ – the first novel in the imaginatively named ‘BLUE INTO THE RIP’ series.
I was also a runner up in the 2005 Clarke-Bradbury International Science Fiction Competition, published in ‘Running the Line – Stories of the Space Elevator’. My short: ‘Escaping the Cradle’: http://ow.ly/msUQf
Cheers,
Kev
What Inspired You to Write Your Book?I am a voracious reader of new fiction and have regularly found myself turned off on the first page by writing that needs a good subedit. It’s a shame, but a lot of self-published fiction suffers from this basic problem. Hence the guide. A subbing tool shop, 55 steps to go through before you push the publish button.
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