Mar

30

Plan your book around changes taking place in your field, their impact on your target market, and how you can help

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Monday’s planning tip for authors
Nonfiction books are purchased out of your market’s need for change; they’re purchased to solve problems or achieve goals.
Planning your book’s purpose is essential for publishing success. No matter how well you research and write your book, it has to appear when demand is at its peak, neither too late or [...]

Mar

29

Editorial Board member Chuck Frey’s guide introduces you to mind mapping, to help you plan, write, promote, and profit from your book

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As many Published & Profitable friends and members know, I’m a great fan of mind mapping. I use mind mapping to schedule my days, create my blog and newsletter editorial calendars, plan my teleseminars and webinars, and to analyze the structure of best-selling nonfiction books.
I also create personalized mind maps for each of my coaching [...]

Mar

28

Learn how to improve the quality of everything you write by knowing what to look for when reviewing your book and your marketing

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Friday’s upcoming events for authors
Published & Profitable friends and members are invited to join me next week when I interview Sue Gilad, author of Copyediting and Proofreading for Dummies.
Sue and I will discuss the importance of what to look for when reviewing your articles, blog posts, manuscript, proposals, and presentation materials. Learn the most common [...]

Mar

27

C. J. Hayden’s “Get Clients Now” shows authors how to turn a book into a successful business

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Thursday’s profit tip for authors
C. J. Hayden’s Get Clients Now! has more to teach than the importance of choosing a short, benefit-oriented, book title. The 3 word title, and its accompanying subtitle, A 28-Day Marketing Program for Professionals, Consultants, and Coaches makes an unmistakable promise. Prospective readers know exactly why they should buy the [...]

Mar

26

Ideas for 10 to 15 minute promotion tasks for authors who are busy writing their books

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Wednesday’s promoting tip for authors
A lack of time is no excuse to ignore book promotion while writing your book! Certainly, after finalizing your book’s publishing plans, you should focus the majority of your efforts on completing your book and responding to editorial queries. However, you shouldn’t totally ignore promoting tasks. Even if you have only [...]

Mar

25

50 writing strategies for authors from the Poynter Institute’s Roy Peter Clark

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Tuesday’s writing tip for authors
The Poynter Institute is a nationally-respected school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalism. However, authors can benefit from many of its resources, such as its blogs and articles.
For the past few years, Roy Peter Clark, one of the Poynter Institutes’s faculty, has been posting a series of 50 wonderfully [...]

Mar

24

Questions authors should ask publishers who express interest in acquiring their books

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Monday’s planning tip for authors
It’s entirely natural for authors to experience a rush of euphoria when a publisher expresses interest in their book proposal. And, certainly, no author should prejudice a potential relationship by being too demanding too early in the game. But, before signing a publishing contract, there are several questions that authors should [...]

Mar

23

Important news for authors and Internet marketers looking for book title ideas for books, e-books, and information products

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Authors searching for book title ideas for their books and e-books, and Internet Marketers looking for ways to increase the selling power of their incentives and information products, are invited to sit in when Brian Feinblum asks me about The Essential Characteristics of Successful Book Titles. This free teleseminar interview is part of Rick Frishman [...]

Mar

23

Are you familiar with these popular and unique independent bookstores? Which is your favorite? Can you recommend any others?

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Ron, a Published & Profitable member, sent me this link to an article describing several of the top independent bookstores located throughout the United States.
I was familiar with 4 of them, ranked, below, in order of personal ranking:

Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, CO
Powell’s Books, Portland, OR
Elliott Bay Books, Seattle, WA
City Light Books, San Francisco, CA

The [...]

Mar

22

Learn the background of Garr Reynold’s bestselling Presentation Zen, one of 2008’s most successful nonfiction books

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Published & Profitable friends and members are invited to listen while I interview Garr Reynolds, the author of Presentation Zen. No matter how you look at it, Presentation Zen teaches that sometimes the best way to create a success is to breaks the rules of conventional wisdom. Here are some of the points I’m [...]

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