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Read by the author. Learn the keys to energizing your writing, engaging readers, and breaking out with influence. What good will it do to skillfully craft a written argument if you lose your audience? Simple emails, formal reports, blogs, presentations, articles—they need punch to gain...

Get to the Point is a beginner’s guide on how to write essays, use critical thinking, and break down complex topics with the use of logical analysis. Essays are a profound way to build your body of work and solidify your philosophy. Learn the art and science of essay writing in this book, including how to create a compelling subject for your essays, how to break down complex topics, effective research strategies, a quick way to build a rough draft, a simple framework for editing, the art of proofreading, how to overcome imposter syndrome and publish your work, and more.

The Author Heir Handbook is a concise guide for heirs written in plain English that will help you understand an author's publishing business, the different components that the deceased author used to create books and income, and how to manage those components. It will save you countless hours by helping you figure out where to spend your time and effort. Managing an author's estate is hard work, but this book will help simplify the process. You just might even be able to do more with the estate than the author ever could in their lifetime.

New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed religion scholar, Stephen Prothero, captures the compelling and unique saga of twentieth-century America on an identity quest through the eyes and books of one of the most influential editors of the day—a search, born of two world wars, for...

The pandemic has brought both new challenges and new opportunities for authors. More people are buying books, but even more, people are writing and publishing them, also. How can you and your book stand out from the competition? In this second edition of Self-Publishing: You Can Do This!, author and publishing consultant Karen Hodges Miller brings us the latest changes in the publishing industry, updating us on everything from the new surge in audiobook sales to dealing with social distancing.

It's so easy to focus on writing and marketing because that’s what builds a writing career. But if you don’t plan on what will happen to your books after your death, everything you’re doing right now won’t matter. This book will help you get your affairs in order and create an estate plan so that you can create a legacy that will continue making money for your family long after you're gone. From passwords to bank accounts to book retailer accounts, this book will hold your hand through the process of getting your ducks in a row.

This audiobook, Pulp Fiction: The Golden Age of Storytelling, profiles an era of magazine fiction writing in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, for people gripped by the tremendous need of escapism in the post-WWI years and the Great Depression. These writers shaped American culture and created iconic characters who live today in some of the biggest blockbuster Hollywood movies. What makes this audiobook absolutely unique is that this story includes actual interviews with two of the super-heavyweight grand-masters of that era, Ray Bradbury and Fred Pohl.

You want to write a nonfiction book that matters. Book readers love and rave about a book they underline, dog-ear, and highlight. How do you do that, when you’ve never written a book like that before, when you aren’t sure what content to include in a nonfiction book, or how to organize it? And when you’re not sure if your idea is worth pursuing in the first place? At the heart of the answers to all these questions is a craft created by A. J. Harper, ghostwriter and editor for some of the foremost thought leaders of our time.

Charles Wheelan has spent decades mastering effective communication skills in his work as a writer, college professor, journalist, speechwriter, political candidate, and public speaker. In Write for Your Life, he shares his best tips. 

You have a dream...become a full-time author. But how do you turn your writing into a business so you can say, “I quit my job!”? Most beginning authors, and far too many experienced wordsmiths, don’t have any idea what it takes to manage the business side of their career. There’s more to it than just writing books and uploading them on the distribution sites. You have many decisions to make for your business. How do you keep track of the money coming in and going out? No matter where you are in your writing career, it’s never too late to treat your writing like a business.

What does Kindle offer that other platforms do not? Believe it or not, the most successful authors—whether they write fiction or nonfiction—will be the first to tell you that the title of this audiobook is not a fabrication. Indeed they will have no hesitation in admitting that they wish it were a lie, but it is not. You do not need to be a gifted writer to earn money from e-books. And this tutorial will demonstrate why and, more importantly, how.

Kaye walks writers through all of their options, taking the anxiety out of the pitching process and teaching them how to be their own best promoters. Sharp, intuitive, and user-friendly, Dana Kaye’s guide is a must-have for all authors with bestselling aspirations.

Writing short is the easiest way to produce and market your work. This, the fourth in Conda’s Write Short to Succeed series, is a workbook full of fun, short writing exercises you can immediately use to successfully sell what you write. It’s a master writing class in everything you need to know to succeed at selling your writing, whether long, short, or both.

Revive your book from the bottom of the charts with rights reversion. Have you sold your book to a publisher, but years later it’s not selling the way you want? Are you frustrated with their lack of marketing and little to no royalty payments? It’s time to take back your book rights. This guide will give you the knowledge and confidence to get your book rights reverted and how to place it in front of new readers, on your terms. You will always be your book's biggest champion. Don't condemn it to years of neglect at someone else's hands.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The Times Most of what we say about books is really about the words...

Wie du ein professionelles Buchkonzept erstellst. Welches Buch steckt in dir? Hast du dir schon lange vorgenommen, endlich dein eigenes Buch zu schreiben? Oder möchtest du einen professionellen Ratgeber schreiben, um dir als Experte eine Basis zu schaffen und das Vertrauen deiner Leserinnen & Leser aufzubauen? Wenn ja, ist dieses Hörbuch der erfahrenen Autorin Ulrike Luckmann genau das Richtige für dich. Es soll dir helfen, Schreibblockaden zu überwinden, dein Wissen in Struktur zu bringen und den richtigen Weg für deine Veröffentlichung zu finden.

This Quick Start Guide for Writers is packed full of everything you need to know to get started with writing. Whether it’s a fictional novel, a self-help guide, a memoir, or poetry, this tip-guide will help you learn several things. From writing platforms, fluff writing, and basic writing points, to book covers, publishing, and distribution, this quick-start guide will give you an in-depth view of what the world of writing is all about.

This guide provides a brand-new perspective of how to write, publish, and market a book. It takes the classic writing formula and challenges it, because famous authors are anything but traditional. Join us as we dive deep into the most iconic authors of our time and the secrets to their success. There is a method to the madness, and you can learn to do it too.

What is stopping you from fulfilling your dream of becoming an author? Do you feel a deep longing to write a book but struggle to find the time, energy, focus, or know-how to do so? Have you postponed your dream because you’re striving for the perfect manuscript or because you’ve been searching for an agent or a publisher for a while? This book will help you break through the obstacles, better define your vision, and finally get your book published! You have a message to share with the rest of the world.

What if you could write a book, get it in front of millions of readers, and it wouldn’t cost you a dime or cost next to nothing? Even better, what if you received a commission for every book that was sold from your site? Oh yeah, and once it's done, it will earn you perpetual income forever. Yup, you read it right! You can, thanks to Kindle, Amazon, and Audible making it all possible - and I am going to show you how. All you need to do is be your creative self, read, and take action.