Recently I reminded myself of how I began my career. I wanted to be a writer. I did not want to be an editor. In fact, I wanted to write fiction. (Imagine that.) Some of you may have heard me tell the story of how my mother said, “Only really good writers can make a [...]
I believe many writers don’t publish their work out of fear. Fear of failure, and fear of success. Thus, when I read Julien Smith’s latest book, The Flinch, which he published as a free ebook with Seth Godin’s Domino Project, I was quite taken by both the topic and by the writer. I would describe [...]
Did you ever wonder how some writers make it to the top of the bestseller lists? Or how they manage to sell more than the average 300 books per year? Of course, you have. It isn’t just with a good idea and good writing. Not any more—not for nonfiction. It takes great promotion and a [...]
Yesterday’s post showed us how savvy writers today can utilize the Internet to help them research, write and promote their books. Today we look at how the Internet has changed how readers find those books. In the quickly-changing publishing world—and the even-more-quickly-changing world of book readers—authors have to realize that sometimes the efforts they make [...]
I’ve always thought blogging seemed a natural activity for writers. After all, it involves writing. Blogging also allows writers to become self-publishers and to get their writing read. Plus, for aspiring and published authors it provides an easy promotional tool because it doesn’t require doing anything very different than they already do. They simply need [...]
Earlier this month, we discussed going through the “proposal process” when evaluating your book idea for its potential of success. This process helps you accumulate the information necessary to fill the pages of your nonfiction book proposal as well. This week, you’ve been offered an Author Questionnaire, once again assisting you in gathering the details [...]
Mind mapping offers the most effective tools I’ve ever discovered for creating a content plan and organizing ideas. I use them with my book coaching clients quite often and I always recommend my clients do one when they evaluate their book ideas using the proposal process or write a book proposal. When we get to [...]
Writer’s block. Just the word turns a writer’s blood to ice. We dread this malady, especially at times when we are under deadline or trying to meet a personal writing goal, like starting and finishing a work of nonfiction during Write Nonfiction in November. What’s a writer to do when writer’s block hits? I asked [...]
I’m often approached by clients who are ready to move forward with their books or book proposals, but they have not built author platform, a built-in readership for their books. In most cases, they don’t want to take the time to build platform before self-publishing, nor do they want to do this prior to approaching [...]
We’ve all heard how important it is for aspiring authors and authors to utilize videos on websites, in blogs and in information products. And we’ve heard about videos going viral, which is what we all dream about accomplishing. While we can’t guarantee that will happen when we create and post a video to YouTube, for [...]
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