Finding A Writer For Your Niche Ebook
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012If you would like to tackle a niche subject, you have two options really. Firstly, you could write a website on the subject or secondly, you could write an ebook on it. If the niche turns out to be lucrative, you could do both and sell the ebook on your web site. However, creating a web site and writing an ebook involve comparable but slightly dissimilar skills.
A niche website usually starts life fairly small and does not become a substantial site because most niches that are available to the sole Internet trader are very focused. In this case, you require between, say, five and twenty pages of 500-1,000 words each. Writing an piece of this length is not especially a problem, however, composing an ebook of say, 10,000 – 20,000 words is more intimidating.
If you decide on the ebook, you will have to choose your chapters and the order they appear carefully. So what can you do if you are not assured enough to compose your own ebook or if you simply do not have the time to do it yourself? Well, you could hire someone else to write it for you. This is called outsourcing.
If you have picked your niche market because you are passionate about it, you will almost certainly know more about the issue than your ghost-author. Therefore, you should outline the book for the writer.
Set out the list of contents and state how many words you would like in each chapter. You could set the tone of the ebook by writing the introduction and putting it with the outline. When the chapters come back, be ready to have to edit or even rewrite sections of them.
Do not regard this as a difficultly, but rather as a chance to stamp your own style on something that was written by someone else. It is much easier to make wording and phraseology your own than it is to write with only a blank screen before you.
If you decide to have the ebook written for you, the next step will be to find a author. You can go to an agency or find your own writer, which may be cheaper but less secure. In any case, you will have to establish the competence of the author or writers and set a deadline and a cost with or without price penalties for lateness.
This is the most difficult part, but if you find a suitable writer, you may be able to use him or her again on a different ebook, which will save you time, One strategy at this stage is to select three likely candidates and conduct interviews. This is not as hard as it appears. Prepare a set of questions and have the candidates answer them ‘live’ on line. This should make the final selection easier.
It is a sensible idea to encourage your selected author to contact you, if they run into difficulties with a term or idea. There is no difficulty with you keeping in touch, but do not become a nuisance. You could also require the chapters as they are finished in order to monitor progress and quality.
Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on a variety of topics, but is now involved with Kindle screen size. If you would like to know more, please go to our website at Kindle vs Book