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How to Write an Overview for Your Book’s Business Plan or Proposal
If you have followed the posts related to Step #2 in the Author Training process, Find Out If You Know What Your Book’s About and Why Someone Would Want to Read (Buy) It, you are now ready to write...
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What’s A Market and Why Do You Need One?
As a writer who wants someone in addition to yourself to read your work, you need a market for your book. You can’t write “the book you want to read” and make it successful unless lots of other people...
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How to Describe the Target Market for Your Book
Not every book has to have a huge market. It’s possible to sell a lot of books by targeting your work to small niche markets. You do, however, have to have a target market that, upon evaluation, has...
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Is Your Book Idea Still Viable Even if Your Market is Small?
Once you know the size of your market—big or niche—it’s time to evaluate your book idea with that market in mind. Determine if your project seems viable or how to make it viable based on the...
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Do You Know If Your Book Idea is Unique and Necessary?
Most aspiring authors believe their ideas are unique and readers absolutely need to read their books. Like these writers, you probably feel convinced your book idea is new, fresh, timely, different,...
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How to Produce a Competitive Analysis of Your Book
The competitive analysis completed during Step #4 of the Author Training Process, Make Sure You Write a Unique and Necessary Book, parallels the nonfiction book proposal section called “Competing...
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Why a Competitive Analysis Improves Your Book’s Chances of Success
All aspiring authors should complete a competitive analysis for the books they plan to write. No matter how you plan to publish your book, look carefully at the competition it faces and place this...
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A Table of Contents Provides a Map and Structure for Your Book
Remember Alice from Alice in Wonderland? She didn’t have a map. No destination. That’s why she wandered around and didn’t care where she ended up. If you have been following along as I’ve blogged this...
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How to Create a Table of Contents for Your Book
As an author in training, you want to approach your Table of Contents (TOC) as both a creative and business process. In the first case, creating your TOC offers you a chance to get inspired and give...
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Does Your Table of Contents Make Readers Want to Buy Your Book?
Once you have completed your table of contents (TOC), it’s time to continue your Author Training by looking at what you’ve created from a publishing business perspective—as if you were an acquisitions...
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Chapter Summaries Help You Prepare to Write and Sell Your Book
At this point in the process, you get to do some real writing. Whoo hoo! How much writing you do in Step #6 of the Author Training Process, Decide if Your Book’s Content Matches Your Initial Vision of...
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How to Evaluate Your Chapter Summaries Prior to Writing Your Book
No matter what type of book you plan to write, once your chapter summaries are complete as detailed in Step #6 of the Author Training Process, Decide if Your Book’s Content Matches Your Initial Vision...
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Why It’s Important to Know the Length of Your Book Before You Write It
It’s handy to know how many pages and words your book might end up having when complete and to use this as a guide for writing your book. This remains true whether you traditionally publish or...
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Discover Ways to Brand Yourself and Earn More Money as a Writer
Now that you have your map and directions for the completion of your manuscript, the next step in the Author Training Process asks you to extend your vision of success past publication of your first...
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How to Sell More Books by Writing More Books
If your book’s business plan includes spin-offs, a series of books or follow-up books related to the one you plan to write, it shows that you have a long-term view of your career as an author and the...
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1 Thing You Must Do to Sell Your Nonfiction Book to a Publisher
Nonfiction writers must have more than a good idea to land a traditional publishing deal. In fact, I could list numerous things aspiring nonfiction authors must do to convince an acquisitions editor to...
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How to Spin Your Book Into Multiple Titles and a Brand
If you take the time to brainstorm spin-offs, additional books ideas related to the one you want to write now, you’ll be amazed what you think of. You’ll soon discover you are not a one-book author....
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How to Become an Authorpreneur
You can help brand yourself as an author by becoming a writer entrepreneur, or an authorpreneur. Consider turning yourself into a brand, like Nike, which began with a pair of running shoes and expanded...
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Are You Financially Ready and Able to Write and Publish?
The last part of Step #7 in the Author Training Process involves evaluating if you have the financial ability to move forward with writing and publishing your book and if you have the funds to create...
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Are You the Best Person to Write Your And Publish Your Book Right Now?
Like most aspiring authors, when inspiration hit you probably assumed you were the right person to carry out your idea from start to finish. You also probably wanted to complete and publish your book...
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