Book editor Kristen Hamilton is the owner and sole employee of Kristen Corrects, Inc., where she provides manuscript editing services for self-publishing and traditionally 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 three cats. In her free time she enjoys playing video games, dancing adult ballet, speaking French, watching scary movies, tending to her courtyard, and traveling to tropical destinations. She lives with her husband and sons outside of Boise, Idaho.
Earlier this year, I wrote a blog on the differences between self-publishing, independent publishing, and traditional publishing—and which one is best for you. Let’s continue the conversation. When it comes to different types of publishing, what pays authors more? For those of you who know me, you… Read More »Self-Publishing or Traditional Publishing: Which Pays Better?
It’s Black Friday, and that means the Christmas season has officially begun! Prepare yourselves: The onslaught of advertisements is going to hit you harder than indigestion from last night’s turkey dinner. Perhaps someone in your life is a writer and has dreams of publishing a… Read More »Give the Gift of Editing!
One of the most important elements that will make or break the sales of your book is marketing. It’s critical to ensure you’re doing the proper marketing techniques, especially if you’re self publishing. (If you’re taking the more standard route of going through a publisher,… Read More »4 Ways to Find Your Book’s Target Audience
I recently posted about 4 Ways to Find Your Book’s Target Audience. Once you pinpoint your ideal reader, though, how do you connect with them, speak to them, and eventually sell your book to them? This is all critical and basic level information on how to market your… Read More »How To Speak To Your Book’s Ideal Reader
December has been a month of speaking on finding your book’s audience and learning to speak to your book’s ideal reader to convert them into buyers. Once you’ve figured out your target audience, how do you reach them? Countless ways. Here are a few basics—4 MUST DO things on… Read More »The 4 MUST DO Things on Every Self-Published Author’s List for Success
As a rule, the more you market and promote your book, the more people will know about your book, and the more people will buy your book. In other words, the name of the game here is publicity. Pay attention here, because this part is important: I’ve worked with many authors over… Read More »12 Genius Ways to Market Your Book
If you’re an author who is planning on self-publishing your book, it is crucial that you have a marketing plan in place. Like I said last week in the blog post 12 Genius Ways to Market Your Book, the more you market your book, the more people will know about… Read More »Choosing a Marketing Company to Promote Your Book
A lot of my clients have asked about whether they should register their work with the US Copyright Office. Even if you haven’t copyrighted your manuscript yet, the moment you put anything on the paper (printed or electronically), it’s your intellectual property, and nobody can take your… Read More »Protect Yourself! How to Copyright Your Book
“Be sure to show—don’t tell—what’s going on in your story.” As a writer, you’ve probably heard these words of advice many times before (maybe even from me!). But what does it mean? What’s the difference between showing and telling? When you “tell” information, you’re informing your reader of something… Read More »3 Ways to Show, Not Tell
As a book editor, I’m constantly in tune with what’s going on in the publishing industry. And…drumroll please…BookBaby’s Self-Publishing Survey Results has some great information, some of which I’d like to pass along to you. Since Amazon released Kindle Direct Publishing in 2007, authors have more power… Read More »5 Proven Insights from the Most Successful Self-Publishing Authors