No need to reinvent the wheel when writing your book. Use a “hero book” to shortcut the process. Your “hero book” is a book you use as a template for your own. However, you’re not going to copy or plagiarize it, rather, you’ll look to your hero book (or multiple hero books) as guidance, whenever…
6 Easy Ways To Market Your Business Book
The average self-published book sells around 250 copies…during its entire lifetime! The first bit of good news is that it’s not difficult to do better than this. The people selling 250 copies of their book are putting it up on Amazon and then they don’t do a single additional thing to market it. Here are…
How To Hire A Book Coach
I’ll assume you’ve read my posts What is a Book Coach? and Should You Hire a Book Coach? or that you feel you already know enough to move on to the meaty question—how do I actually go about hiring a book coach? And not just any book coach, but the right book coach for me?…
Should You Hire A Book Coach?
If you just read my post What is a Book Coach? you might be saying to yourself, “Now I know what a book coach is, but how do I know if I need one or not?” You’ve come to the right place for the answer, but if you’re already thinking you need a book coach,…
What Is A Book Coach?
This is the first in a series of posts about hiring and working with a book coach. See Should I Hire a Book Coach? and How to Hire a Book Coach to learn more or, if you’re ready to hire one right now, check out my book coaching options. This post focuses on just one…
How to Create Intentional Content For Your Book
As you write your book, how much of it is intentional? By “intentional,” I mean it’s on purpose, rather than incidental. Each of us creates hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pieces of “content” each day, most of it without ever thinking “Now, I’m going to create some content.” Every email you send, word you say, and…
The 80/20 Rule of Writing and Publishing Your Book
The Pareto Principle and Richard Koch’s book The 80/20 Principle state that 80% of results come from 20% of the inputs. This is especially true when it comes to the results you get with books—just having a book, even if it’s far from perfect, will give you the vast majority of results. Don’t get me…
Your New Identity: Published Author
There has never been an easier time to be an author, nor a time when your voice was needed more. Since there’s no time to waste, grab a sheet of scrap paper, a sticky note, or anything else at hand, and write: My name is [insert your name] and I am an author. Put that…
3 Ways To Make Writing Your Book Less Stressful
Writing a book is a challenge. As Churchill said: To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and…
Should You Write a Book Proposal?
What is a book proposal and do you need one? A book proposal is only necessary if you plan to pitch your book to a traditional publisher. However, the exercise of creating a book proposal is valuable, even for authors who self-publish. Creating a book proposal will help you: 👉 Refine the structure of your…
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