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The aim of this book is to give you the benefit of my experience. It is not the only experience. There are many valid paths to publishing a book. I do however think the path that I have found is a very good one. I feel so passionately about my publication strategies and the reasons I selected them that I have written this book. It is my sincere hope that this book will help you to be a more skilled publisher of books, whether you are a new author or seasoned author.

Want to be a successful author? Write short. Whether you write short stories or articles or both, you'll find a wealth of benefits from writing short and sweet. Whether you are a new author or a long-established pro, Write Short to Succeed will teach you new, different, and unique techniques for writing short.

This isn't about grammar or syntax, it's a wakeup call for anyone who wants to write a book.

You can attend all the writing conferences you want, but the simple truth is that you can't grow as a writer without actually getting words on a page. This manual is the accumulation of 10 years drafting novels, novellas, short stories, and screenplays, distilled into a short, inspirational guide that should be next to every typewriter.

Social media guru Julie A. Gerber and award-winning author of 43 best-selling books Carole P. Roman team up to travel the winding road of self-publishing, promoting, and marketing a book. Join these two experts as they share their vast store of experience in an easy-to-hear book. Learn why you need a beta reader and the importance of a good editor. Make a list of what you need to do when choosing an illustrator. Compare the many ways to promote your book.

A simple walkthrough on how to edit and present your finished manuscript to a publisher. A clear, simple, and usable guide to the final revision of your manuscript before submitting your work to an agent or publisher. Including how to create a query letter, a written pitch, and a verbal pitch of your work. Created and tested by a published author and writing teacher. This book will put you at the desk with your agent or editor as she reads your manuscript, eliminating the need of hiring an editor.

Being a writer is not just about typing. It's also about surviving the rollercoaster of the creative journey. Self-doubt, fear of failure, the need for validation, perfectionism, writer's block, comparisonitis, overwhelm, and much more. When you're going through these things, it can feel like you're alone. But actually, they are part of the creative process, and every author goes through them too.

I have wanted to be a legitimate author ever since graduate school. I got the writing bug after spending nearly six months of writing my thesis and I actually enjoyed it. I had no trouble starting to write books, but I rarely got past the first chapter. After years and years of these false starts, I finally figured out a method of writing that works in the cracks of time within my insanely busy schedule created by being a high-level executive in a sizable corporation, an involved father of two kids, and a dedicated husband.

Do you fear you'll never write a book because you don't have the time? Let me guess - you're a writer, but so far, the book you know will be a big hit is stuck inside your head because you simply don't have the time to sit down and write it. You've probably been told that it takes years to write a quality book, but I'm here to tell you that's just not true. It's possible to write a quality book in two months - writing only on the weekends - using my realistic step-by-step plan.

Do you want your readers to feel like they're really there - in the place where the story happens? Whether you want to enrich stark prose with atmospheric detail, add vibrancy to a dull piece, or curb waffling descriptions, this guide can help. Learn how to make your settings intense, realistic, and intriguing. This is the 10th book in Rayne Hall's acclaimed Writer's Craft series.

The goal of this book is simple: Help you write faster and at a higher quality. Let's face it, if you're in business for yourself - an author, speaker or trainer, coach, consultant, or entrepreneur, or if you realize the great need for large quantities of fantastic content fast - then you need to know how to speed write. It goes without saying that if you're a writer or publisher and you can already crank out content at a brisk clip, even a small increase in production can give you a slight edge.

For good or ill, once money enters the picture, you become a professional writer: even if you've never received a penny for your words, as soon as you try to sell them - to agents, editors, or the public - the nature of many of your social relationships changes. People will no longer care about you; they'll only care about what you and your writing can do for them. This guide looks at all the people who will be involved in buying and selling your books, what you need to understand about them, and how to deal with them.

This guide explores artisan publishing, a new approach to creating and releasing books where the focus is on quality and the integrity of the author's editorial vision. The path of the artisan isn't a shortcut to fame and fortune, but it is the best way to create something you'll be proud of and in which your readers will find lasting value.

Tried a bunch of writing exercises and creativity hacks to defeat writer's block...but to no avail? Well, struggle with writer's block no more! Because in this book author Michael Rogan - himself a sufferer of a six-year bout of writer's block - shares his simple, fun strategies for eliminating writer's block...for good.

Writing is an intensely personal act, yet all writers face similar problems related to focus, procrastination, creativity, and productivity. This book combines the field-tested practices of successful and productive writers with insights from cognitive science. By understanding how your mental processes affect the work, you can master the inner game of writing.

Being a professional writer involves more than mastering the craft of writing and the art of storytelling. There are the constant challenges of managing your own expectations as a writer, dealing with other people in the industry, maintaining your creativity, and running what is, in truth, a small business.

Like real life, the writing life is filled with contradictions and perplexities. The world of commercial publishing is counter-intuitive, and writers dive in weighed down by misconceptions, delusions, and unrealistic expectations. Perhaps because most of us write in some form every day, we believe we can - and should - write a book. We also assume writing is the hard part, and once our manuscript is finished publishers will line up for the privilege of delivering it to the world. This is why many people who say they want to write really mean they want to have written.

This guide explores the structural underpinnings of character and characterization in terms of mythic cycles of transformation like the hero's journey and the virgin's promise. Once you understand these patterns, your characters will ring true, and your listeners will believe in them, too.

Get your eBook to stand out above your competition! Have better search engine results and better page rankings by utilizing search engine optimization. This work deals with those all-important keywords: power keywords in book titles and subtitles...using keywords in your Kindle metadata field...choosing the right words in your book description...and more!

In terms of objective reality, a work of fiction is an elaborate lie. No writers think of themselves as liars simply because they write fiction, but that's the fact of the matter. And no other writing guide will admit to teaching you to be a better writer by showing you how to be a better liar - at least in a narrative sense. A good lie rings true. Verisimilitude, or the appearance of truth, is critical in a novel because audiences start the book knowing it is fiction.

You are writing a book...or you have one already published and the OMG moment hits. You have made a mistake (or maybe a lot of them)...screwed up...or you may feel clueless about the tsunami of items you need to deal with. You do not want to fall further into the abyss of book creation and publishing. You need help and savvy guidance.

If you've ever published an book before, then you know that writing and publishing it is less than half the battle. If you can't get it in the hands of your potential readers, your book will go unread and you make no money. If you haven't published a book, you're scared of this happening. You need a proven, step-by-step system to write, market, and promote your book in order to get customers and make money from your books.

This work deals with those all-important book descriptions: how to come up with a clever and unique description, using key power words, how they help promote your cover, the length of your description, words to use and avoid, and more!

Burke takes authors step by step through the process of identifying their unique personal brands, defining their audiences, clarifying their aspirations and goals, and setting priorities. Once that foundation is established, she walks them through the process of developing a personalized, sustainable, long-term online marketing plan. She offers advice on designing a successful website, building a mailing list of superfans, blogging, creating an engagement strategy for social media, and more.

Performance artist H. O. Tanager holds high hopes for her cross-country trip to Boston: to see great art, to eat delicious food...and to incite mayhem. But once the journey actually begins, it's all she can do to hold on for the ride.

There are a lot of books on story structure, but only The Plot Machine presents a step-by-step guide to designing a story. In clear, precise language, this guide discusses the various types of stories we tell, their specific parts, and how they are assembled. Say good-bye to staring at the blank page waiting for lightning to strike. Just put a few coins in the plot machine, and write better stories faster.

Here we go over the core mechanics of how to make money selling books on Pinterest. (Easier than you think - and far more effective than other social platforms.)

We all know how to tell stories just like we all know our native language, having heard both since we were born. People, however, who study their native language discover there's much they misunderstood or simply didn't know. The same is true of story when we look at it more carefully. With topics that include the theory of story as model, the fractal key to narrative complexity, and the art of the long form, this volume will show you the essence of stories and storytelling.

Becoming a massively successful self-published author isn't easy. Even just one missing link in an otherwise perfect plan can kill your results. The easiest way to avoid these mistakes is to learn from those who have made the mistakes for you and found a way to overcome them and can take you by the hand to show you the principles you need to follow to guarantee long-term success.

Author Dan Howe has produced over 800 titles and sold an astounding 12,000,000+ books in the last decade and a half! This tell-all how-to book reveals his down-to-earth strategies for promoting a new release or reviving sales on an old one. If you want to learn how to create the ultimate kindle money machine, this book will show you how!

In 2012, I read that Amazon.com had ways to self-publish e-books, paperbacks and audiobooks. They would make them available in more than 100 countries via the Internet and produce them when they were ordered. They would mail the paperbacks to the customers at no charge to me! Then, the company would direct deposit the royalties to my bank account. Best of all they paid a 35% to 70% royalty!