I read something interesting today in the New York Times. It seems Amazon.com has decided to enter the publishing game. Not only does the company now provide aspiring authors with the ability to self-publish POD and e-books–and to read them not only on a Kindle e-book reader but also on the new Kindle Fire–but has now taken on the role…
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How to Map Out Your Book from Start to Finish
A lot of people ask me how to begin creating the structure of a nonfiction book. I like to begin by creating a table of contents for a book. Once I have this, I can then create the content for those chapters. However, often I can do both of these activities at the same time. To accomplish this, I suggest…
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Top 10 Ways to Establish Your Expert Credentials
Either you’ve got your book in print or you are still gathering information as you prepare to write it or you are in the process of composing your manuscript. In all three cases, here’s how to become the magnet that attracts those interested in your topic: Become the vortex, the expert, the one people rely on when it comes to…
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How to Get Bloggers to Review Your Nonfiction Book
My book is scheduled for release on April 2012, so I’m looking for great information on how to promote that book and get sales. Book reviews help tremendously. So, I was so pleased to find that The Savvy Book Marketer Dana Lynn Smith had come out with a new book on how to get book reviews, How to Get Your…
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Connecting with Bloggers to Promote Books and Build Platform
Many authors promote their books with blog tours, providing guest blog posts or interviews for a variety of bloggers after the release of their books. Aspiring authors also can build platform effectively by employing the same strategy–writing guest blog posts and creating relationships with bloggers who might later review their books or help them promote them upon release. Today my…
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WNFIN Participants can be Friends on Facebook Page
Last year I set up an official Facebook page for WNFIN. Not too many people used it. However, I want to point out that it is there for those wanting to chat with each other. Last year WNFIN also had a forum, which was not well used. It then filled up with automobile adds and my webmaster took it down….
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How Authors can Seal Boards in a Platform with Recordings
These days you can hear me on the radio every Monday at 4:34 p.m. PT. I am the writing, publishing and blogging expert –and sometimes the spirituality expert — on Michael Ray Dresser’s Dresser After Dark radio show. This is a board in my author’s platform. Every week I get to speak to thousands of people about my area of…
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Self-Trust Helps You Make a Difference with Your Writing
Today I read something in Forbes.com that got me thinking. I don’t often read Forbes, but this article by Glenn Llopis was about trust and change. These topics interested me. And as I read the article I knew I could apply the principles to writing about change–a topic close to my heart. Now, more than ever, we need writers who…
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