Monday’s planning tip to help you write a book

Book coaches can help you get your book published faster by helping you make quick progress planning your book. An experienced book coach can help you identify new opportunities, see new connections, locate resources, and create a realistic action plan.

Here are 7 examples of the tasks I help frequently offer clients in individual and group online coaching sessions:

1. Choosing the best title. Tour book’s title must communicate a benefit at a glance, target the right market, and–yet–must be both concise and memorable. A book coach can turn a solitary task into a fast-moving brainstorming experience as you tap the coach’s, and group’s experiences and ideas.
2. Choosing the right type of book. A coach can help you review alternative ways of organizing and presenting information, choosing from among often-overlooked options like anthologies, case studies, parables, procedurals, and surveys.
3. Online research. Getting your book published depends on identifying a new, fresh approach to your topic. A book coach can help you save time by knowing what to look for when researching existing titles online.
4. Selecting the right publishing option. Today, there are more publishing options than ever, and someone experienced with the various options can help you make the best possible choice for your particular interests, resources, and desired degree of control. A coach can also share ideas for identifying appropriate literary agents and publishers active in your field.
5. Marketing. An experienced book coach can help you identify primary and secondary markets for both your book, and identify ways of efficiently reaching them. Coaches can also suggest ways for you to test market your book title and contents as early in the planning stage as possible.
6. Realistic expectations. An experienced book coach can help you avoid unrealistic expectations that can lead to later disappointment. By emphasizing the importance of identifying realistic future goals, and how to achieve them, you can save time working towards your goals.
7. Expanding your contact sphere. Experienced book coaches can suggest ways for you to contact experts in your field, which can pave the way for later referrals and pre-publication quotes and testimonials.

The days of the solitary author, toiling alone in a garrett, are over. Today’s authors often work in concert with others–coaches and writing mastermind groups–to maximize their time and avoid frequently made mistakes. To learn more, send me an e-mail!