Book editor Kristen Hamilton is the owner and sole employee of Kristen Corrects, Inc., where she provides manuscript editing services for traditionally and self-publishing authors. Several authors whose books she has edited have won awards and have topped Amazon’s best sellers lists. Reading is Kristen’s passion, so when the workday is over, she can usually be found curled up with a good book alongside her four cats. She loves watching cat videos and scary movies, eating pizza, teaching herself French, and traveling, and she is likely planning her next vacation. She lives outside of Boise, ID.
Publishing on BookBaby and Kindle are two different options for self-publishing a book. BookBaby is a self-publishing platform that offers a variety of services for authors, such as editing, cover design, and formatting. They also distribute books to various retailers, including Amazon’s Kindle store. Kindle… Read More »Publishing on BookBaby vs. Amazon Kindle (KDP)
I’m totally onboard with the clients and projects I take on—which means I’m not just the book editor, but I also champion the books I edit by including them as part of my portfolio, my website’s Latest News page, and my social media channels. You… Read More »How Kristen Corrects-Edited Books are Promoted
Every successful novel is made up of several pillars—character development, conflict and plot, setting, pacing, and so on—and these elements work together to create an engaging, hard-to-put-down book. Each of the pillars relies on the other, just like a building. The same is true about… Read More »The Pillars of Writing: Everything You Need to Write Great Fiction
Lots of self-publishing authors say that writing the book is the easy part, because after writing and publishing comes marketing. And it’s hard! With the self-publishing market being so saturated, you need to do everything you can to get your book in front of readers.… Read More »Contests to Enter (and Win!) for Self-Published Fiction Books
Setting is the location and time in which the book’s story takes place. A novel’s setting can include geography and time period, and can take place on Earth (past, present, or future) or in a made-up world. A novel’s setting is one of the elements… Read More »How to Avoid Infodumps in Your Novel
If you’re a self-published author, you need to do everything you can to get your book in front of readers. Audiobooks are the fastest growing faction in publishing, and for the past eight years, audiobook sales in the US has had huge increases year over… Read More »Self-Publishing? Here’s How to Create an Audiobook
A book’s blurb is the description of the book that entices readers to buy. Essentially, it tells the reader what your book is about without giving too much away. In paperback books, the blurb is located on the back cover. In ebooks, the blurb goes… Read More »What is a Book Blurb?
I’ve been editing for a long time, and unfortunately I’ve seen countless (countless!) cases of authors coming to me after previously being “burned” by a bad editor. There are a lot of underexperienced editors out there—or even worse, people posing as editors who are in… Read More »How to Choose the Right Editor
So you want to improve your writing. But how do you do that? You can take extensive writing classes and dedicate X amount of hours every day pounding on the keyboard. Or, you can read published work that the greatest literary geniuses of our time have provided… Read More »Stephen King’s Top 10 Tips for Becoming a Better Writer
In a word: YES. And here’s why… Most writers think that because they write well, they haven’t made any mistakes in their manuscript…WRONG! Even the best writers make plenty of mistakes. They leave out crucial details. They use confusing and wrong word choices. They spell words… Read More »Do You REALLY Need an Editor?