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Tracing your roots can be one of the most rewarding experiences of one's life, and when the researcher is a professional writer, the project can turn out to be a published book that reunites the family clan.n n Dandelion author, Laurel Johnson, has written a memorable account of her ...
Book Publishers cannot possibly know what it’s like to write a book unless they’ve written one themselves. How do I know that? Because I am a professional writer and a publisher. Until I completed my first book-length manuscript, I was clueless about those unavoidable labor pains! n I also had ...
You want to know how to publish a book of memoirs that’s going to end up being a box office hit and light up your name on the marquee along with Angelina Jolie, Leonardo DiCaprio, Pierce Brosnan, Jennifer Lopez... AND... it will also make enough money to put all four grandchildren through ...
This is actually not a book review but more of a confession. As a professional ghostwriter, book doctor, editor and publisher, my greatest inspiration often comes from my clients. Jeanette O’Donnal came to me eight years ago through a mutual acquaintance. “Here!” Handing me a sheaf of ...
Publishing and writing is much more than producing books and articles. It is a statement of who you are: your values, commitments and passions. Whatever you write—journalism, fiction, memoirs, children’s stories, poetry—let your work reflect the “look & feel” of who you are, why you believe ...
You want to know how to publish a book without taking risks… yet, if you love celebrated American author Ray Bradbury’s cliff-jumping aphorism* as much as I do, and if you want to see your book in print, you’re more than ready to make that leap. nn*[“You’ve got to ...
Ebook publishing is the latest and most amazing addition to the global family of content-based media products. Ebooks are: Portable and readable on ebook reading devices, smart phones,PDAs and laptops Capable of being printed out, if the buyer prefers a paper version Downloadable to ebook ...
Googling for Book Publishers opens the floodgates to over 14,700,000 entries which predictably by tomorrow will have already grown by several hundred more. Browsing through the glitz of ads and special offers or strategically structured sales pages of celebrity testimonials can leave you ...
Vampires and Witches ... and Monstrous ET/Reptilian Derivatives are the subject matter of many of the fiction pieces I receive from teenagers who aspire to become professional six-digit earning Stephanie Meyer derivatives. After receiving yet another episode from a teenager whose works are ...
If you plan to make your published book the hub of your online business, you will want to have a website or web presence. On that site, in addition to answering the "W" and "H" questions (who, what, where, when, why and how), you’ll have places where visitors: Offer comments and ...
When shopping for the right online publishing company, the first item to consider in addition to quality products and services, is marketing. How can that company support your marketing and promotion efforts? Possibly before now you’ve been so focused on getting your book published, you ...
Book Publishers publish books. Book Publishing Services provide all or most of the necessary steps leading to the publishing of a book. It is very important to know the difference between the two if you have written a book and plan to publish it. Ram Pramschufer, a person I highly respect for ...
Ebook publishing hit media headlines on Friday, October 24, 2008 with Oprah Winfrey's endorsement of Amazon's Kindle. From Forbes.com, David M. Ewalt writes: Amazon.com's Kindle electronic book reader has been on the market for almost a year now, and by most accounts has been a pretty ...
It’s no secret that ebook publishing is rapidly transforming the media industries. Although ebooks have been around for awhile, it wasn’t until recently that technology was able to refine production and delivery technologies and re-design ebook reading devices. Hard copy Print on Demand ...
Does anyone really know how to market your books online? Yes, and no. Almost every day a new book or another online marketing guru appears with yet another Success Formula or end-all CD or DVD, with success stories to back up their products. I’ve lost count of how many books and articles ...
Ebook publishing is one of the fastest growing niches in the media industry. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, salesperson, practitioner, motivational speaker--whatever your business or career--online marketing and promotion through ebook sales and bonus freebies is one of the easiest and most ...
You love to write with a passion and you openly confess that you’re in love with the Muse. You’re always writing emails, letters to friends and family… you’re a great blogger and you’re always the one who’s asked to develop a newsletter because people know you’re so good at it. Writing is as ...
So you want to know how to publish a book book—no, that’s not a typo. It’s simply a way of pointing out that many published books that look and feel like books, are not. How can you tell if a book is a book? More important than answering this question is to ask another: does it really ...
Traditional publishers were shocked, awed and dismayed by the invasion of Print on Demand and other digital production and delivery technologies. Almost overnight, “automobiles had replaced horses and buggies.” Suddenly the playing field was leveled. Independent boutique publishers could stand ...
Make your book-selling website operate like a busy international airport. Fly-in traffic arrives through hyperlinks. An example of a hyperlink is the name of your web domain. My writing services domain name is
It is a well-known fact that both anorexia and bulimia are on the rise in societies that measure success and sexiness by physical body proportions. Both as a publisher/professional writer and certified hypnotherapist actively participating in Arizona’s Professional Hypnosis organization, ...
When you include a joint venture in your book marketing campaign, you add value to the customer’s order without asking them to pay more for your book. Everyone loves bonuses; the word "free" is magical. It can imply specialness--WE buyers are getting a special deal. Why? Because we're here at ...
If you want to know how to write a book that's written by someone else--i.e., a ghostwriter--make sure you know how to find a competent one, and be prepared to pay their fees. Once there was a giant ship engine that failed. The ship's owners employed one expert after another, but none of them ...
The internet and digital book publishing seem to have been made for each other. Romance was in the air as soon as aspiring and often extremely gifted authors realized they no longer had to play the waiting game of months, sometimes years with traditional publishers. Often that game involved two ...
Who wouldn’t want to know how to write a book that sells a million-plus copies… a book that people can’t put down until they reach the last page... leaning back with a satisfied sigh... By now, most wannabe best selling authors have already devoured the glut of “6 steps,” “7 steps,” “10 steps, ...
Would you like to know how to write a book that’s liberated from all the “5 step/6 step/7 step/1-2-3-How-to” paint-by-the-number formulas? “But it’ll never sell if I don’t follow the rules!” cries your Critical Voice (Can you hear the fear?... Don’t you know that you’re destined for failure ...
Today, publishing is a many-flavored “ice-cream parlor” where you can sit down and be served (traditional publishing), drive-thru for a fast pick-up (budget online self-publishing) or create your own quality combo (co-publishing, using digital production and delivery technologies).n ...
Do Publishers print garbage? Do they deliberately produce toxic waste in order to raise enough money to invest in “real books” –or “is there no lid for the can” because they know this is what people are hungry to buy and eat (read)? Does the precious money raked ...
Ebook publishing faces the same issues as music and other types of downloadable products sold on the internet. How can ebooks be protected against piracy and theft? Will Ebook theft cause people to stop writing? Several months ago in an article that appeared on the internet, the Society of ...
If you want to know how to write a book with top selling potential, learn from the pro’s and buy a large jar of elbow grease. Place it next to your computer and use it daily! There’s a difference between elbow grease and a magic wand or your natural gift. Your talents or natural gifts resonate ...
Ghostwriting is precision work that requires much more than writing and editing skills. I like to say that in addition to being an art, it is also a craft and a business. The ghostwriter is committed to satisfying a client's wishes and needs. This commitment is probably the most important part ...
Following are a few ebook publishing tips for the enterprising writer who’s ready to step into the world of virtuality and start writing for the screen--no, not as in “Hollywood,” but as in PCs, laptops, PDAs, reader devices and cell phones. Ebook Types The pdf Ebook. Today, Adobe Acrobat ...
The key to successful marketing is learning how to create your own internet community. “Community” is defined by dictionary.com as “a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.” A group of ...
After you learn how to create a sales campaign for your published book, you can use the same strategies for selling your online and offline seminars, workshops and other special events. By adding audios and videos, testimonials from satisfied customers and other enhancements, you now have your ...
“How to make your book your business” may seem like an oxymoron. Whatever you write about is obviously “your business” because it’s about you: your stories and experiences and what really matters most to you. The business I’m referring to is the commercial ...
Almost anyone can tell you how to publish a book but practically no one can tell you how to market it. How can that be true? The internet is glutted with marketing experts begging to show you how you can easily $ell everything from kitchen $inks to $ink cleaners. Almost daily one or more of ...
In spite of Halloween myths, a ghostwriter is a real person. In fact, the good ones have been on the planet for several years because that’s the only way they could have collected enough experience to qualify for the ambitious task of writing someone else’s books, articles and blogs. From ...
Journaling is one of the most creative ways to heal a fragmented self. Regardless of the identified condition: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Co-dependency, Grief, Depression, Substance Abuse or some other type of addictive habit or behavior; keeping a journal and making regular entries can ...
Book printing has taken a giant leap forward not only off the page and into space, but also reincarnating in digital format through an amazing automated “book making machine” known as the Espresso. Jason Epstein, former editorial director of Random House and founder and CEO of On ...
With so much commercial hype about how to publish a book, I was delighted to come across an article by Jim Barnes titled "Publisher Up!" in Independent Publisher (Volume 8 - Number 7). Preceding the article is an excerpt from an essay by Jonathan Karp, editor-in-chief of Twelve, an imprint of ...
People pleasing often attaches itself to substance abuse or some other form of addiction. Paradoxically, with the right counseling, it can serve as one of our most empowering wakeup calls. Recently, I received a phonecall from a man who is attempting to rebuild his business--and his life. I've ...
A published book is usually among the Top 10 items on every entrepreneur’s or professional’s Wish List. In the academic world, it's a well-known fact that publishing is a must, and in the political and entrepreneurial arenas, most leaders have learned that published books and ...
Ask any professional writer about the pros and cons of traditional publishing in today’s rapidly changing world and they will advise you to carefully research and stay open to other publishing options as well. Let’s say you were among the lucky ones who received acceptances from “the right” ...