Digital Writing Services

I am going into business for myself to edit and proofread books and novels for new and Independent authors, for a reasonable fee. I created a website called Digital Writing Services to advertise my services. The website is not entirely functional yet in regards to Paypal, so any purchase you may want to do now will not work. I enjoy proofreading and editing, and I thought that I should finally do something I’m passionate about, instead of trying to find another office job that I’ll probably end up hating anyway, so here is my attempt at doing something I’m passionate about. I will eventually offer affordable book reviews when this is fully up and running smoothly, so please look for that in the future.

Now, I won’t begin doing business until May 17, because I’m graduating with a BA in English on the 15th from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls and I wish to concentrate fully on finals for the next week and a half. I’m also offering an author showcase for authors to showcase their works, along with various links to the stores their products can be bought from, and where they, as authors, are located as far as myspace or facebook is concerned. This is for a low yearly price. I’m also offering proofreading/editing services for college essay and research papers for a low price. Another feature is converting an authors’ word document into PDF for a small fee. Please check out the website if you’re interested in finding out more. The website is about 95% finished, but, all the important areas are all there, and you should have no problems navigating the website.

Writing and author sites

Updated: This was blogged two years ago and I just thought I’d bring it back to the front.

If you’re a new writer and looking for websites to market your work or yourself as an author, searching for those places online takes a really long time, especially if you don’t type in the right keywords on google or other search engines. I thought I’d post sites all in one place so you can find what you’re looking for without searching for days on end.

http://www.writersmarket.com Online version of the book

http://www.writersdigest.com

http://www.helium.com Where writers can post articles, stories, opinions

http://www.writing.com Writing site

http://bookmarket.com/index.html This is John Kremer’s website where there are supposed to be “1001 Ways to Market Your Books”

http://authornation.com/ A community for authors and readers

http://www.bookreview.com/$spindb.query.bottom.booknew This is where you can get interviewed, post your book, or even get it reviewed.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/ Where you can post short stories, articles, or other kinds of content

http://www.oncewritten.com/

http://www.sffworld.com/ if you write SF, then take a look at this site

http://www.bibliophil.org/ a website you can have a customized library

http://www.ibookdb.net/ an internet database for books

http://ebookscafe.writergazette.com/addbook.php where you can list your e-books

http://www.published.com/ a free directory of writers and artists

http://thewriterslife.homestead.com/promotion.html book promotion links

http://www.writing-world.com/ articles about writing, or post your work

http://wordpress.com/ a blogging network

http://www.blogger.com a blog site

http://www.writermag.com a writing magazine

http://anotherealm.com/prededitors/pepb.htm a website that tells you which sites are real or not real

http://www.bookcrossing.com/ If you ever want to see if people read a book you just leave around, then come here

http://www.goodreads.com/ a social network for book lovers

http://www.librarything.com/ your personal library online

http://www.facebook.com You can do an advertising campaign for your website or book

http://www.authortree.com/ build your own author website

http://bookmarket.ning.com/ social network on Ning.com

http://www.authorsden.com/ Author community

http://www.authorzone.com/index.php another community for authors

http://www.shelfari.com/ List your library online

http://www.writerscafe.org/

http://www.squidoo.com/browse/homepage

http://www.editred.com/ Writing community

http://www.myspace.com this is obvious

http://www.redroom.com/ Author community

http://www.booktour.com/readers If you feel like going on a tour for your book, this is a place to post it

Well, these are most of the sites I have on my favorites list. Hope these links are helpful to the beginning writer. Have fun surfing!

Author’s Gathering place

I just thought I’d let everyone out there know about an author’s gathering place called Polkadotbanner.com. You can post your profile, sites to where your books can be found, links to your important websites, how you can be contacted and whether or not you can be contacted for signings or online chats. They even randomly list your book if you become a star author. If you click on an authors’ book cover, they can become the featured author for that month. Please help me out by clicking on my Polkadotbanner Profile

Check out the website owners’ blog: http://polkadotbanner.blogspot.com/2007/11/authors-website-to-promote-increased.html to find out what her thought process were for creating the website.