The first step in publishing your work is to get your manuscript in perfect shape. What’s perfect? We will get to that. Did you know that 2.3 million books were self-published in 2021? That’s a lot of books, but the sad part about it is, not all of these books are actually good enough to be on the market. Since self-publishing hit the mainstream, many are just writing something and publishing it. They don’t get it edited or read by any of their peers to see if it has any merit. They probably won’t go anywhere, but they can still say they are now a published author. They have given self-publishing a bad name.

I have been editing and publishing for over a decade now, and the one thing I see our writers need the most is information on publishing their own work. And, that is exactly what I am here to do. The first thing is getting our manuscripts in order and that is what we will be working on during the webinar. I can’t tell you how many times someone has sent me a manuscript for a final edit, and it is a first draft and has a lot of work to do before they need a final edit. I’m always willing to help them, as they don’t realize they aren’t finished. We have work to do.

This is why I am offering this free seminar, to give each of you the opportunity to understand what it takes to prepare a manuscript for publication, and of course, I can’t teach a year-long course in thirty to forty minutes, but with this tool, I have devised, it will be extremely helpful. Our Manuscript Refinement Guide is designed to inspire you as the writer to look deeper. It is a list of 10 items to inspire and guide you. I will discuss a few of these in-depth during this webinar.