Posted by: whoismarkress on: October 24, 2008
Mark Ress thinks if you’re feeling nervous about starting a project, relax. Tell yourself that you will take it step by step. Mark Ress believes that all you need to do is work at it steadily, a word, sentence and paragraph at a time, and you will complete your proposal, and then when you’ve sold a proposal, you’ll complete your book using the same easy-does-it method.
Here is a few myths Mark Ress has come across.
Mark Ress discovery Myth One
It takes a special talent to write books.
It takes persistence. Mark Ress believes that there are as many different kinds of writers as there are people. Some are young, some are elderly, many are in-between. You don’t need any special writing talent to write books, nor do you need to be highly educated. Mark Ress says that many successful writers have never completed high school. If you can write well enough to write a letter, you can write a book.
Mark Ress discovery Myth Two
Writers starve in garrets.
Many professional writers make incomes that would make doctors and lawyers envious. Most make reasonable incomes. If you decide to make a career of writing non-fiction books, the major benefit is that if you choose your book’s topic with care, your book can stay in print for many years. Mark Ress says that for each year that your book’s in print, you get two royalty checks. Let’s say that you write two books a year for five years. At the end of the five years, if your books all stay in print, you’ll be getting ten royalty checks a year. Acorrding to Mark Ress these ongoing royalties are your nest-egg, profitable investments in your future.
Mark Ress discovery Myth Three
It’s hard to sell a book.
Mark Ress claims that as long as you research the market for each book before you write as much as a single word, it’s easy to sell a book. Mark Ress has found that publishers need competent, reliable writers who can produce good books regularly. This myth got started because — let’s be blunt here— 99% of submissions to editors and publishers are not publishable.
Mark Ress discovery Myth Four
You need to know someone to get a book published.
You need to write a good book to get a book published. That really is all you need to do. Mark Ress know of a person who started writing romance novels and they were published by an English publisher. They certainly didn’t know anyone in UK publishing; they live in Australia. If you have a contact in publishing, by all means Mark Ress strongly recommends to use that contact. However, it’s not necessary. Publishing is big business, and Mark Ress has dicovered that publishers need good books.
