Clear publishing advice, book marketing insights and stories from Zambia’s literary community.
‘Everyone’ sounds welcoming, but it can leave a manuscript unsure whom to help. Choose a primary reader, test a real chapter and distinguish readers from buyers without narrowing the book's reach.
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Years of expertise do not automatically become a useful book. Choose a reader, turn recurring questions into chapters and test one before writing twelve.
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A Word document’s page count is not the size of the finished book. Decide what belongs, what to cut and how layout changes printing cost.
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Memoir asks for honesty, but not every private detail belongs in print. Practical ways to handle memory, relatives, photographs and difficult scenes.
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A poetry collection needs more than enough poems to fill pages. Learn how selection, sequence, language, editing and page design give a book its shape.
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A children's book has to work for an actual child. Learn how readership, reading aloud, page turns, illustration and story choices shape a book worth reading twice.
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