Tuesday’s writing tip for authors
The best way to write a successful book is to use my Reader Persona mindmap, created with Mindjet’s MindManager 8 to get inside your reader’s mind, so you can fine-tune your book’s contents to your reader’s needs.  The Reader Persona will help you identify and analyze who you want to read [...]

Wednesday’s book marketing and promotion tip for authors
Use a mind mapping template like my MindManager 8 Website Persona Planner when starting work on a new website, or when upgrading an existing website. Personas are planning tools that website designers and web usability experts use to plan a website’s content, design, navigation around the visitor’s needs.

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Monday’s book planning tip for authors
Published & Profitable’s Chapter Details Planner saves authors time organizing ideas and planning the contents of each chapter. Once you have created your book’s table of contents, identifying the chapters  you want to include in your book, and the main points and the other text and graphic elements details you [...]

Monday’s planning tip for authors
A new MindManager 8 Book Proposal Planner template that helps authors write book proposals faster has joined the hundreds of resources already available to Published & Profitable’s members. The Book Proposal Planner provides a framework for authors writing book proposals. Authors can prepare their book proposals faster if they plan [...]

Published & Profitable members can now access six new MindManager 8 map templates to help them plan, write, promote, and profit from their books. These new templates join those already available for members  in Published & Profitable’s Mindmap Templates area.

Above is a clickable, zoomable example of one of Published & Profitable’s new MindManager 8 map [...]

Tuesday’s writing tip
More and more authors are adopting social media marketing tools, like blogs and podcasts, to help them simultaneously write and promote their books. The age of the isolated author is over. More and more Published & Profitable interview guests tell how their blogs preceded their books. In some cases, they hadn’t even [...]