Where Authors Go to Become Seriously Successful
Every book has a starting point for its journey. Along the way, the author sharpens their ideas and gathers the tools to be successful.
Start with:
#1 Be smart from the get-go! Savvy authors learn quickly that books are a business. Creating cobwebs in your garage or basement shouldn’t be an option. Knowing what your book cost (really cost, not an estimate—that means you crunch the numbers so you have a true unit/book cost); knowing who your …
When Amazon’s eBook sales, a la Kindle, exceeded its print book sales that we authors and publishers love so well, the “book sky is falling” dooms-dayers and sayers came out of the woodwork.
~ Books have power! ~
The University of Tennessee has been exploring students’ test scores for the past three years. Research led by Richard Allington has found that students who brought “real” books home had significantly higher reading scores than those who didn’t. …
After spending several hours with an author who was incredibly frustrated (and most likely PO’d at me for being the messenger) that what she had so carefully structured in her 8 x 11 print out version was most likely NOT going to be the same presentation in the interior design of the finished book.
Here’s the heads up: what you put down, page-by-page in your Word document/pdf may have little to do with what it looks like …
I’m lucky. I’m passionate about what I do when working with authors and their books and about the books that I write. When authors attend my various Publishing and Speaking Salons, they know what they are writing or want to speak about. They come with enthusiasm … and passion. And many show up a bit overwhelmed with the whole process.
It’s their passion that fuels their engines and enables them to work one more hour, take …
Publishing Predators are everywhere … from the one time author who is now the “expert” and “book coach” to the what sounds like a legit publisher who is nothing more than a sham operation. In a recent phone call with a new member of Author U, she was frustrated with a “group” book coaching effort … that was being led by a novice author. At the June Dinner and a Program, Mara Purl shared a gem: …
As the Publishing World Turns … Publishing is morphing on a daily basis … If you are a new author, you’ve got publishing questions. Plenty of them. If you are an already published author, you should have publishing questions. Plenty of them.
As an author, ask: should I traditionally publish (hello New York), self-publish, independent publish, pay-to-publish, ePublish or pPublish … which is right for me and my book? The answer is: it depends and will …
If you want to write a book, you’ve got to love the topic/cause. If it’s just something to do, Author U’s question to you is, “Why do it?”
What topics, areas do you know about—either by schooling, life experiences, the school of hard knocks?
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