Who Are EBook Publishers Looking For?

Potential clients drop by SkillBites every day to see what types of eBooks we provide to the public for sale. They come looking not for eBooks on picking up skills, but out of curiosity regarding how they can join the ranks of our writers. If you are one of these people, you should know that we, as eBook publishers, are always looking for new writers.

Potential writers commonly wonder if they have what it takes to write a eBook. Instead of wondering, we decided to let people in on what we are looking for in our writers. Here are 4 qualifications for publishing eBooks here on SkillBites.

Professionals Only

We often stress that every one of our writers are professionals at what they do. While this is true, we rarely specify what makes someone a professional in our eyes. To be considered a professional, we want to know that you know what it is you claim you know.

To that end, we insist on seeing what you have that makes you a professional. We want to know about your education, your internships, your presentations, and your employment concerning the subject. If you are creative enough to use this combination of your history to present yourself in a professional manner, then you may have what it takes to become one of our eBook publishers.

 

Writing Skills

Don't worry too much about the quality of your writing skills. You don't need an English degree to write for us, but we do like it when our writers are able to string English words together in a manner that follows basic grammatical rules. If you are capable of expressing yourself without trying to convince your spell check that "y'all" is a viable word, then our team of proofreaders can handle the rest.

Experience Counts

We want to know about your experiences in the industry of your choice. Aside from being part of what makes you a professional, these experiences are more than likely what you will want to write a eBook about. We like hearing about how you have gone through the crisis situations, how you've been in charge of 14 different workshops and how you managed to get a company car for your personal use. These stories often have the meat of your experiences embedded in them, and it is through these that you learned what you will ultimately be writing about in your industry.

Future Plans

Our authors perform best when they have ambitions for the future. Where do you want to be in five years? We want to know what your ultimate goals in life are, and how you will go about getting there. Even if you don't have a solid plan laid out, at least having ambitions tells us that you are willing to work toward a better future, which means that you will be willing to write a eBook about that experience as you live through it, too.

Turning Your Skill Sets Into How To EBooks Isn't Easy

We here at SkillBites offer all of our writers the same bit of advice: Transforming what you know into how to eBooks isn't an easy task. Often, our writers discover that the more they know about a topic, the more difficult of a time they have transferring that knowledge to paper.

Authors commonly run into road blocks. There is a moment of realization for every author where the knowledge that you know how to do what you do, but not how to describe it to others, hits you in the face like a rock. The best advice that we can offer to you in this situation is to not panic.

You must remain calm and be prepared to back up in the writing process for a short while. Take an objective look at what you've already written, and ask yourself whether this information presents your readers with what they would expect from how to eBooks. This information should all work toward your goal of teaching your readers a skill. If it does not, mark the area for possible deletion.

In the meantime, use a separate sheet of paper to construct an outline of what you have written so far. Leave the rest of the outline blank for now. Examine what you have already gone over with an objective eye. On yet another piece of paper, begin making a list of those topics that you still need to cover in order to teach your readers what you already know.

A big part of the eBook writing process comes in the outlining stage. If you skipped this stage earlier in the process, then what you have already written may be an unorganized mess that throws new information at the reader in a seemingly random pattern. For now, leave this information alone, but study it carefully to see if there are any additional items that needed added in order to clarify your existing content.

Writers often forget that how to eBooks are designed to work a reader through learning a new skill set. It often helps these writers to go back to the very beginning of their attempts to learn this skill set, and to look at things from the point of view of a beginner. Ask yourself what the beginner needs to know in order to succeed in learning this skill set. Make notes of this, too.

Once you have finished taking notes, it is time to rearrange them into a workable outline. Take what you already have, and the ideas you have come up with, and rearrange them into an organized outline without regard to whether you have already written the section or not. Your redesigned attempt to write a eBook may require you to rearrange what you have already written, and to go back and fill in the blank sections, but your how to eBooks offering will have a much better reception with your readers because of it.

Create The Perfect EBook Publishing Author Biography

For those who turn their professions into eBook publishing projects, the concept of the author biography section is a subject of no small amount of confusion. The hardest thing that you will ever do is to write a short biography about yourself that includes enough information to express your professional status, without giving identity thieves a way to track down your social security number.

Ask anyone who's successfully defended their dissertation whether they'd like to defend it again, or write an author biography section, and most would choose the dissertation committee in a heartbeat. It's no wonder. After all, how are you supposed to write something about yourself that says what it needs to say, without making yourself sound like a pompous idiot? Here are 3 tips to help you construct the perfect author biography section.

1) What Not To Put - When you decide to write a eBook, your readers are going to want to know something about you. What authors don't understand is that this is not your life's story. No one cares what elementary school you went to, or how old you were when you got in your first fistfight. Avoid these personal details, unless they are relevant to your project.

2) Your Personal Information - Begin your author bio with your name, and then move on, without delay, to any information you can think of that will help explain your credentials. You want to tell your readers that you are a professional in the topic you've chosen to write a eBook on, and the only way you're going to manage that is to produce information relevant to your professional standing in your author biography.

Included in your personal information should your education, as it pertains to your professional standing. You want to include any degrees, certificates, or special awards that you received during your educational pursuits in this section. Follow this up with work experience that you have obtained. Internships are less important in this section, while primary attention should be paid to a reverse chronological listing of relevant work experience. Skip over the ten months you spent flipping burgers, it's not important. Conclude this section with any leadership roles that you have held within your industry, and mention all awards that you've received within the industry as well.

3) Additional Information - This final part of your author biography should be used as a showcase for additional relevant information. In eBook publishing, authors commonly wander off topic here, permitting unnecessary facts to pollute their pool of useful information.

In this section, you should include any awards that you have won for your past eBooks or writing achievements, along with any writing training that you have undergone. This information will further your reputation as an author. If you believe it to be important, you may also include a short statement near the end regarding the reason that prompted you to write a eBook about this topic in the first place.