Last year I started to get a strange feeling in the pit of my stomach. I’d worked with tens of entrepreneurs on their manuscripts by that stage and printed book after printed book started arriving in the mail. As my pile of client books grew, a nagging little voice spoke up in the back of […]
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Okay, this is simple, right? Yes, but simple doesn’t always mean easy. Unless we’re talking about getting it wrong. Quotation marks, sometimes called inverted commas or speech marks, are one of the easiest punctuation marks to get wrong. The problem lies in the way they muscle around the punctuation marks that play the supporting role, […]
Continue readingWhile everyone says you can’t judge a book by it’s cover, the truth is that your potential readers are doing this every day. And it’s not just the front cover, either – in a printed book, your back cover is just as important. And the key to an attention-grabbing back cover is a gripping back […]
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The once-popular colon/semicolon key on our computer keyboards is, I fear, gathering dust. And while it’s probably a good thing that in the twenty-first century we favour minimalist punctuation, let’s not let fashion and flavour blind us to the important tasks these punctuation marks can perform. The colon and semi-colon are not there just to […]
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Everyone says that the benefits of writing a book are enormous for you and your business, but are they really?Here at Grammar Factory we have helped over 200 entrepreneurs take their business to the next level through writing their own books. But don’t just take our word for it. We sent out a survey to 150 […]
Continue readingJane Jackson came to Grammar Factory as a first-time author in mid-2014.Her book, Navigating Career Crossroads, teaches readers the seven steps they need to take to bounce back from redundancy and find passion and direction in their careers. Jane’s goal was to make careers guidance accessible and affordable to all who needed it across the globe […]
Continue readingEveryone has a story to tell – but even the greatest stories often go untold. It’s hard to have your experiences and your thoughts be heard over everyone else’s. That is what makes writing your own book so beneficial; it is a way for you to share your story with the world.In 2013 we interviewed […]
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Today’s post is by author and Grammar Factory editor Sara Litchfield. Sara is the author of dystopian thriller The Night Butterflies, and recently discovered that as a self-published author, getting your book in stores on the shelf of a major bookstore chain can be as easy as simply asking the question. Read on for her top five tips […]
Continue readingSo often we get fixated on trying to do it all – the flash website, hitting 1,000 likes, running the networking circuit… it can be a struggle to find the one thing that could make a tangible difference.Enter Darren Finkelstein, who found something that did.Darren has been messing about in boats for most of his […]
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Today’s post is by Sean Blanda, the Managing Editor and Producer of 99U, and online magazine that teaches creatives how to execute their ideas. In this post he shares how to save thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of wasted effort by finding readers for your book before you go to publish your book.Building a crowdIt’s […]
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In 2011 Google conducted a study on consumer habits and coined the term The Zero Moment of Truth, or ZMOT.ZMOT is the moment when a consumer decides whether or not to buy something. As any business owner would know, achieving that moment is crucial in ensuring your business’s survival.So how do you achieve this elusive zero […]
Continue readingToday’s post is by Paul Jarvis, bestselling author of The Good Creative, Everything I Know, Be Awesome at Online Business, and Write and Sell Your Damn Book. He also writes a weekly newsletter on freelancing, creativity and critical thought called The Sunday Dispatches, where he originally shared this honest advice on marketing for self-published authors and entrepreneurs. Marketing tools for your […]
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Anyone can pretend to be anything online, so how do you show that you’re the real deal, rather than some other hack who happens to have a website? When everyone else is claiming to have the same skills, qualifications and experience, you need something more to stand out.A book will do just that.If you’ve been […]
Continue readingYou’re passionate about your book’s subject. You want to emphasise how important your message is. Or you want to bring some enthusiasm and excitement to a topic you worry your readers will find dry and dull. The solution – an exclamation mark!Or is it?Readers understand that exclamation marks convey emotion. So when they see a […]
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