TAKE THE MYTH OUT OF BESTSELLER, AND WRITE YOU ONE!
When we see the word “Bestseller,” it usually means selling a great number of books, starting around 30-50 thousand copies. Certain bookstores report the sales to certain lists and the book is listed as a bestseller. Well, many, many bookstores that sell lots of an authors books do not report to those lists. Then there are ordinary writers like you and me who sell thousands of books on their own and they dont report to those lists. Those lists usually dont include self-published or small press writers. Many bookstores and lists dont report to Publishers Weekly, the New York Times and USA Today. What a huge disparity!
But I want to share with you something all such books have in common, reported and unreported all are rather well written, most have a fresh concept, and all are pretty well edited. So in this equation, we know that bestsellers have three things in common: 1) theyre well written. 2) Have a fresh concept, 3) theyre well editedno typos or verb-noun disagreement, no misspelling, or run on sentencesonly if the writer is breaking the rule to prove some point.
Ive read quite a few...