I work with a lot of aspiring authors and authors on their nonfiction book proposals. Despite the many great books written on how to write a book proposal, I’m always amazed at how little these clients know about how to write a book proposal. Most proposals I see contain little or nothing of what they need to sell the great…
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How an Accountability Partner Helps Get Your Book Written
Are you having trouble getting your book written? If so, you might want to find an accountability partner—someone you report to on a regular basis on your progress. A book coach serves this purpose for a lot of aspiring authors. However, you can also use a fellow writing friend or anyone who will be there on a weekly basis to…
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When Do You Know You’re Done Editing Your Work?
Many writers never finish their work and send it off to an editor, agent or publisher simply because they never feel it’s finished. So when do you know when your work is actually done? You don’t. But you have to decide it’s done. Here’s how I do it. Typically, I either have a deadline someone else has given me, like…
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How to Use Content to Propel Your Book Sales
One of the thing writers do really well is produce content. That’s a great thing in today’s online market, because the best way to promote and market their books comes down to producing great content and lots of it–and knowing where to place it on the Internet. By strategically using content in cyberspace, a writer or author can actually propel…
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How to Tie General Blog Posts to the Topic of Your Book
It’s really important to know how to tie the topic of your book into your blog. So, it’s not surprising that I often get asked questions about how to tie blog posts into a books writers are writing or promoting. I thought, therefore, today I’d address that issue. Whether you are writing a blogged book, a printed book or an…
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3 Steps for Generating Ideas and Bringing Them Into Reality
Do you feel like you never get started on your dream projects? Your ideas sit there gathering dust? Or maybe you feel you just don’t have any good ideas upon which to take action. There was a time when I thought I had no good ideas. Then came a time when I had too many good ideas. Here’s a three-part…
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When Is It “Too Early” for Book Promotion?
When someone asks the question, “When is it too early for book promotion?” I answer emphatically, “Never!” My new book, How to Blog a Book, A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing and Promoting you Manuscript on the Internet One Post at a Time, won’t be out until June 2012 (Yes, the date has changed a bit…), and I’m already promoting. Not…
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What Happens When the Glow of the Book Contract Wears Off
It’s been several weeks since I learned that my agent had managed to land me a book contract for my book based on my blog, How to Blog a Book. The contract has been negotiated; I’m still waiting to receive the papers to sign and to get that not-as-large-as-I-envisioned advance. Want to know what happens when the glow of the…
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