Sometimes writers and authors wear blinders. We only look to the world of publishing for answers and solutions to how to market ourselves and our work. Yet, other industries can provide insight into how we can do our jobs better or in new and more creative ways. Today, book publicist Scott Lorenz of Westwind Communications offers his insight into what…
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This holiday season, while you are out purchasing gifts for your friends and family, take time to purchase a gift or two for yourself–ones that help you succeed as a nonfiction writer. You have an enormous amount of potential, but you need to help yourself fulfill that potential. Make sure you have what you need to move toward your goals…
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One of best strategies I can offer you for improving your nonfiction writing results—or any results—in the New Year involves taking an accounting of the past year. However, while this exercise has you write down everything you did, successes and failures included, you pay particular attention to your successes. In other words, you determine what’s working and what isn’t. Then…
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If you your business plan for 2014 includes writing a nonfiction book, no matter how you publish—traditional or indie—your book will probably (or should) end up on Amazon. Therefore, it behooves you to learn how to use the site to sell books effectively. Many posts have been written about how to use Amazon’s Author Central, but today Penny C. Sansevieri,…
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Most writers I speak with want to increase their income next year. Heck, most people want to increase their income. As writers, though, we typically want to do that by focusing on work we love. That means we want to write about topics that interest us and we want to serve our readers by providing them with articles, essays and…
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Over the years, there’s been a lot of debate about whether or not goal setting works. However, I’m a firm believer in using goals to help me achieve the success I desire. So have some of the people I admire and whose advice I follow, such as Brian Tracy, Jack Canfield and Michael Hyatt. I’ve successfully used goals with my…
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For those of you who dream of making a living as a professional writer, today’s guest blog post is for you. Daisy McCarty, author of Make Freelancing REALLY Pay: Communication and Negotiation Strategies That Take You to the Top, and co-founder of Freelance Text, offers some really sound advice on how to use your nonfiction writing skills to freelance for…
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As a nonfiction writer, you have a unique opportunity to do more than just tell a great tale. You can impact readers in a truly significant way. You can provide content that changes lives, communities, organizations or the world. That doesn’t mean you can’t tell stories; many nonfiction writers tell phenomenal stories based on their own experiences or on facts….
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