KNOW YOUR WORTH There are so many people who don’t understand what your job is. I’ve had one client decided all I was doing was putting images in her book and therefore I cost to much… Never had the nerve to ask me, never spoke to me again, never apologised. Think about…
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FIVERR and those who offer Formatting, also known as Interior Book Design, through this platform can be awesome and then not so much. Authors, especially new ones, need to know how to research and get the best. It’s time for those questions again. All Authors need to know what questions to ask to find a…
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We have NEW SUBMISSION GUIDELINES for clients and or anyone submitting work for an anthology at Plaisted Publishing (Author Assist). THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW! All work needs to be automatically set up for when you write, this includes – Titles, Chapter Headings, Indents, Page Numbers, etc. You won’t need a Contents Page at this…
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As a Independent Publisher which is a Limited Company, I always tell my author friends and clients to make sure they don’t pay first and to look at prices…some are horrendous. A deposit is one thing, full payment…Hell no… they tend to be Vanity Publishers. Needless to say if you have a set of standards…
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I never name call anyone. I am always polite and rational with anyone with any discussion. If or when a person earns my ire I tend to grumble a lot, though I do step back and think about the situation which has arisen. I will help as much as I can or as the client…
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Here I was proud to be a Director of my own limited company. With a gentleman who was going to assist with Marketing in exchange for publishing a book and my daughter as a contractor to do Book Covers. My daughters hobby business is Ceejay Designs. Claudia was studying Graphic Design after being trapped in…
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This issue started for me in the middle of last year when I tried to contact one of my clients. Not only couldn’t I send emails to her, I couldn’t reply to ones she sent to me. It took about 2 weeks to sort it out. Yes you guessed it, nobody really knew what was…
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Reflections of the past twelve months. What have we done. The highs and lows. The requests and even the chat. I have met some amazing people over the last twelve months. Many who have helped to improve my love of learning, friendship, sisterhood and much more. With business growing I find it is now…
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