The Kingswell Journal
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Editing
Developmental, line, copy and proofreading are four different jobs with four different price tags. Here is what each one fixes, when it happens, and which passes your draft actually needs.
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Publishing
Who issues ISBNs in the UK, how many numbers your book actually needs, what a free retailer ISBN really costs you, and the legal deposit obligation every UK publisher has.
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Publishing
An honest breakdown of what publishing a book in the UK actually costs: editing, cover, formatting, ISBNs, printing and launch, and where the money genuinely changes the book.
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Publishing
The real sequence from finished manuscript to finished book: routes, ISBNs, editing passes, design, distribution and a realistic six-month timeline.
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