By launching his new website http://www.thebookpatch.com/, the objective of the n°1 New York Times bestselling author Victor Ostrovsky is quite clear: he wants to help young and inexperienced authors to write, edit, publish and sell their book, by offering them a unique and practical set of tools dedicated to make their work easier.
As everybody knows, it is really difficult for a beginner, whatever his talent is, to enter and to survive in the cruel and closed world of edition. Lack of useful connections, editors and publishers not really inclined to trust the writing of a “rookie”, need of money to publish and sale, are so many reasons that can easily encourage young writers to give up. Even for the old and experienced ones, it is difficult sometimes to end up a book without difficulties. The birth of this website is the result of many years of a professional writer’s observations about this question: what does a writer really need to create a book, from the beginning until its achievement? Inspiration of course, but not only...
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| Victor Ostrovsky, creator of the website |
The website is the logical and practical answer to this delicate question. And the philosophy of its creator is deliberately announced on the first page: you enter in a “state-of-the-art platform for authors and book lovers”. Everything is done to simplify the work of these “lovers”: The tools proposed cover the 3 important steps to make a successful book: writing, printing and selling as announced on the categories you can click on.
For the writing part, the website doesn’t propose you to write the book in your place of course, but can help you to do it with an impressive collection of tools: possibility of co-authoring, story lines, support to create your character, storing author ‘notes, chapter outlines, resources lists and other practical applications can help you to feel more confident in your writing.
Once the writing finished, it is possible for the new author to print his/her book for an interesting price. The cover can be chosen among an existing list or be created by the writer. The price for the printing declining with every additional copy, it remains really affordable. Thus, the price for a standard book (200 pages, with full color cover) is estimated from £5.50 to £16 on the average. No set up fees, or royalty sharing, and the guarantee for the author to retain 100 copyright, make this website particularly attractive in this period when money is largely worth being saved!#
The book store remains a good opportunity for new writers to sell their work. An affordable alternative again, since authors collect the profit, and just have to pay the printing cost.
In conclusion, this website is an original and unique solution to the problems a writer can meet. Practical and usable all over the world with an Internet connection, it permits to small-budget people to have a chance to use a tool that the well-known Victor Ostrovsky himself estimates as the solution he “had always wanted when writing”.
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