You've heard the drumbeat—You need to write a book! Your competitors have already written books, where's yours? Maybe you don't need to write a book to succeed, but if you've been thinking about it, let's talk.
Tag Archives: publishing
Write Your Book, Even if You Flunked English Class
It’s time to “Kickstart Your Business Book”
Live Full Throttle Wins TWO, count ’em TWO National Book Awards!
A year ago I published Live Full Throttle: Life Lessons From Friends Who Faced Cancer, and now it's won two national book awards!
Workshop: Is 2013 the Year of YOUR Book?
Distribution: Self-Publishing’s Final Hurdle
The last step in the self-publishing process is getting the book into the reader's hands (or reading device). I'm not talking about marketing in this post (I'll talk about that later); I'm talking about dead-tree distribution here because that's how I published Live Full Throttle, for reasons I outlined earlier in this series.
What’s the TRUE Cost of Your Book?
Hardback or Softcover for your Self-Published Book?
When you're publishing your own work, you're taking on all the departmental responsibilities of a publisher: editing, design, printing, financing, distributing and marketing. Unless you're publishing an e-book you'll have to choose a book binding.* Deciding between hardback and softcover lies at the intersection of finance and marketing.
Insider View of Self-Publishing
After writing about how to roll blog posts, newsletters and articles into books, self publishing, writing book proposals and what a book can do for you professionally, I invite you to walk with me down the path of self-publishing a book of my own.
In Search of a Sugar Daddy Publisher
When I talk to prospective authors about their publishing plans very few know what they're up against trying to get a traditional publisher to fund their project. That's how you should think of it -- funding the project.