Publishing one nonfiction book typically doesnât provide you with a ticket to successâat least if you want a career as a nonfiction author or any type of author for that matter. To succeed in the competitive publishing arena, you need a career plan that includes a bookâor more than one bookâas well as a brand, a website, a promotion plan,…
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Today Kathleen Gage (@KathleenGage) offers advice about book marketing. No matter how you publish, you need to master this task if you want to sell books. âWriting the book is the easy part. Then begins the work.â This is a statement very few authors want to hear, yet those who pay heed to it are the ones who will sell…
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Many writing or publishing experts can advise you on how to write a book and become a published nonfiction author. Fewer authorities can tell you how to succeed as a nonfiction author, but thatâs the advice you need mostâand it has little to do with writing or publishing. Iâm not talking about receiving tips on promoting your book or building…
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Your ability to generate ideas or produce compelling manuscripts represent a small determining factor in whether you will succeed as a nonfiction writer or author. Your success depends in larger part on the possession of the essential personality characteristics necessary for success. Every year it becomes more difficult to succeed as a nonfiction writer. The book publishing industry becomes more…
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Writers write. Thatâs the adage, right? But sometimesâmore often than you care to admitâwriters donât write. You know itâs true. Like me, sometimes when you sit down at your computer to work (which means âwriteâ), you donât do anything close to producing work. You donât type a wordâexcept in a Facebook update, a comment on a blog post, or in…
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