You have a great story but no one seems to want to get involved.

WAIT...

There is an alternative to traditional publishing and it uses a resource that is becoming increasingly popular - internet.

You see, traditional publishers, bless them, are in a highly competitive market. They cannot afford to take some of gambles that they might have done a few years back. They have to make sure that books that they publish make money. Now they all make mistakes (anyone remember Anthea Turner's Biography?) but in main you can't blame them for being cautious.

Consider two circumstances:-

One If I was a soap star, then I'd have more chance of being published. I'd have celebrity, for a start, my name would be known. Not that I'm suggesting that celebrities produce rubbish. It's just that if a publisher had two books of equal literary value (in their opinion), one by a major soap star and one by a complete unknown, I know which one they'll pick to publish.

Two Suppose I have written a superb biography of, for example, Prince Rupert of Liechtenstein. It may be a truly well researched and well written volume. It may allow reader deep insights into subject matter. It may be one of best biographies ever written. However, it has no real market. Maybe only a handful of people in world are interested in Prince Rupert. Now, supposing that on same day a moderately well written biography arrives of a famous Premiership footballer. Which one will publisher pick?

You see, above two examples show two things in modern world of publishing. You need to have an assured MARKET and you need to have a PROFILE.

Granted, new authors are published every week. But it is getting increasingly difficult to be published by traditional route.

The internet is great leveller. You can publish, within reason, what you like. Someone in Brisbane who shares your passion about Prince Rupert can type his name into a search engine and find your glorious book.

You are no longer dependent on someone else to become published.

You are free...

I want to help you to think creatively. I want you to push yourselves to think of new and exciting ways of promoting and displaying your work.

I'll show you how to use colour, sound and images to enhance your book.

I'll help you to find sites you need and pass on tips that I've learned along way.

At end of it all, I hope that you will have a book that will grab people's attention.

As an example, I'd like you to look at my own website.

http://www.stbrodag.com/stb3.html

This is part of a collection of pages that I set up to promote my own novel, 'St Brodag's Isle'. Let page load and see what happens.

I've included music to give page a Celtic feel. I actually wrote music myself and I'll tell you later how to download programme to achieve this. I tried to write a piece that would evoke in mind of listener 'Riverdance' music. I'll leave it up to you to decide if I achieved that or failed!

I've also picked on a recurring motif within my novel, kittiwake, and highlighted it here. A kittiwake is a small gull-like bird that nests on steep sea cliffs. I found this little animation on internet. I'll give you links to such sites later.

I'm combining words, pictures and sounds on this web page.

Words Pictures Sounds

That's sort of combination I'd like you to try soon. As writers, we're adept at handling words. It's time for us to broaden our horizons.

The full transcript of 'More than an E-Book' is available at http://www.stbrodag.co/buy.html