Authors Showcase
There are many great female authors both past and present in the world so, I shall be adding to this list over time. If you're a female indie writer and would like to see your name showcased on womens words with a full page just about you and your work,
authors can contact us here
or fill in the form below.
Berta Freistadt MA
Charlotte Bronte
Sharon L Jones
Anna Sewell
Clare Hill
Enid Blyton
Here’s some tips on getting your book ready for publishing.
There is a lot of advice out there for indie writers, some good some bad and some very silly. However, in my wanderings I've found the number one complaint seems to be about typos.
It's one of my pet hates too, if you can't afford an editor make sure you turn on the inbuilt spell & grammar checker in your word processing package. Yes, I know this is basic but it's surprising how many don't activate the grammar check. Trust me it does work, and if you get funny squiggly lines under the word or sentence it's because you've done something wrong.
Don't just ignore it, keep working at it until you lose the squiggle I promise it will make the sentence sound better. Eventually.
If you're still not sure it's spelt right or looks odd, use the thesaurus to check for synonyms (alternative words), you'd be amazed how many times I've done that and found I was using the wrong spelling of a word to describe something. Oh, and watch for missing words, this usually happens when you're editing for the nth time, 'can't see the woods for the trees' syndrome.
Another complaint was about homophones.
Now, I must confess I had no idea what a homophone was but I do now, it’s just a technical term for something I’ve always known, and I have to admit they have driven me mad when I see them in a book. For those like myself who have lived most of their life in ignorance of the technical term homophone, they are words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings IE: there/their, your/you're, hair/hare, break/brake, flower/flour, night/knight, affect/effect.
The list is long so if you don't know the correct spelling for the sentence you are writing, look up homophones on line, there are plenty of sites 'spelling 'it out. Don't get too down about this I've read books by famous authors with incorrect or missing words. However, because we are self published we need to think like the women pioneers in a male dominated job, we need to be better than the established authors to rise to the top.
Don't give the naysayers grist for their mill.
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