How to Edit and Publish Professionally

Start Your Thing Podcast

Matt is a CEO & Executive Producer of Winning Edits - an editorial agency devoted to helping authors grow successful careers through the writing of important books and production of engaging content. Winning Edits works with world-class authors like Todd Henry, renowned entrepreneurs like Pat Flynn and industry experts like Tim Grahl. [Tweet "@MattGartland advice to change the world: Be disciplined and go crush it.". #startyourthing #podcast Listen to the full interview here: http://stitcher.com/episodelink"]

What You’ll Learn in This Interview (with timestamps so you can jump forward)

• 00:56 – What Winning Edits is about
• 02:25 – Kinds of authors Matt works with
• 04:41 – How Matt started his journey
• 06:17 – Why editing is valuable
• 07:42 – How Winning Edits edits and maintains the author's voice
• 08:50 – The three main aspects of editing
• 08:59 – What developmental editing is
• 09:05 – What copy editing is
• 09:11 – What line editing is
• 10:33 – Where Winning Edits come in
• 12:30 – How most authors publish
• 15:43 – Misinformation about publishing
• 17:48 – Why self-publishing is faster
• 19:54 – Where does Winning Edits take place after publishing
• 22:27 – Tips on how to monetize the exposure of your books
• 26:00 – Recommended types of books to publish
• 29:52 – Is your book your business card
• 31:45 – Why a book has leverage
• 33:26 – Why professionally published books are important

Episode Tweetables:

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Resources Mentioned:

• FG Press at http://fgpress.com/ : A modern publishing company that gives control to authors.
• Harper Collins at https://www.harpercollins.com/ : The second-largest consumer book publisher in the world.
• Penguin Books USA at http://www.penguin.com/ : A publishing company in Britain.

Way to Connect with Matt:

• http://winningedits.com/

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