“He who whose face gives no light shall never become a star.”—William Blake

In second part of this series, attention was drawn to importance of styling, promoting, and timing your work if it must become a best-seller. But other things are involved in this. Get a good publisher

Your success and stardom or your weal and woe, starts with publisher. Note this: there are more Shylocks than Samaritans in that family. Or better still, more sharks than friendly whales.

You will know a good publisher from contract. Examine it critically. Some seemingly "good" contracts will not give you full right of your book till you die! If you do not understand document, get an attorney to examine and interpret it for you.

Or you could contact an author who has published with potential publisher for advice. The author will tell you truth because some of them are already going through Catholic hell with their publishers--legal suits over rights, royalties, and so forth. You could also check with other sites for information about publisher. I have earlier provided you most credible site to check up with. The site owner gives most updated, fearless critique of all publishers. He throws his darts without giving a heck whether it lands in White House.

A good publisher should give you right of your book, pay your royalties regularly, and--mark this--promote your book. There are few of such ones. The majority are hypocrites. Publish in different formats It is best to make your book available in many formats. The wisdom in this is that sales will be coming in from different sources—from just one book. What did they say about one man’s meat? The fact is that people have many choices. So publish your book in hardcover, paperback, e-book and as an audio book. Also have it put in movie, DVD, and video. The present technology can handle all of that. Look around and you will see that all selling books today are produced in that way. And there are even readers who will buy your book in more than one format. Why don’t you make hay as sun shines. Keep revising your book

The man that would write an error free manuscript has not been born. Or maybe he lives on second earth out there in outer space. Why is that so? Because writer is an imperfect creature. This means that your book can be revised even after publication. A review of Bill Clinton's My Life says that book is short on editing--an euphemism for badly written. Yet it is a great book. Many great works have been revised. Consider these.

James Joyce has been regarded as one of most important novelists if not most influential of twentieth century. Yet, his Ulysses, a parody of Homer's Odyssey, has a corrected version. Miguel Cervantes Don Quixote, considered world's first modern novel, contains many slips. Just to mention two. Cervantes records three expeditions for Don Quixote, yet it was actually four. And author forgetting names he has given to Sancho Panza's wife, Juana Panza or Juana Gutierrez (after custom in La Mancha for wives to take surnames of their husbands), calls her Teres Cascajo (her father's name) in Part II. Even William Shakespeare reputed to have widest vocabulary of any man born on earth (4,000 words) has ironically turned out o be writer whose works has had highest number of editions.

Most authors regard revision of their work as a matter of life-and-death. A typical example is that of Greek poet Virgil. When he was about to die, he ordered that his Aeneid be burnt for reason that he had not polished it to his satisfaction. But great Augustus Caesar got wind of it and countered poet's wish. So Aeneid lived and Virgil died. Or Virgil lived because Aeneid did not die.