Audition Deadline: May 28, 2014

Whether you're a complete investing novice or just confused about all the contradictory advice out there, A Beginner's Guide to Investing is an accessible guide to growing your money the smart and easy way.

Throw away the get-rich quick schemes that never work and turn off the financial news and it's constant noise. Whether your dream is protecting your assets in a turbulent market or growing your wealth so that you can retire in style, this book is the blueprint.

You can be a successful investor - really.

Join Ivy Bytes, an innovative start-up dedicated to creating accessible content on crucial issues, and Alex Frey, a lifelong investor and Harvard MBA, as they show you:

• How you can realistically expect to double your money every 7-10 years
• Why most investors achieve stunningly poor returns on their money - and how to avoid turning into one of them
• How to choose an investment account that you can keep for the rest of your life
• How to out-perform the vast majority of professional investors while taking less risk
• How to quickly create a portfolio of diversified ETFs (exchange traded funds)
• How to put in as few as three to five hours every year on your investing - and still beat 80% of investors
• Why you may not be properly diversified in holding the most popular index mutual funds
• How endowments like Yale university have consistently beaten the overall stock market - and what you can learn from them
• And more.