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Guide can increase your book’s success, helping you to generate buzz, make connections in the industry, and break into foreign markets.This guide will walk you through the 5 most successful steps to marketing your book. Our goal is to share tricks of the trade that large publishing houses have deployed for decades, as well as lesser-known strategies that have proven particularly successful for self-publishers.
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Jack Canfield has taken one small book of heartwarming stories and turned it into a multi-million dollar industry, the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Canfield collaborates with dozens of authors to publish his books, and is always eager to help a new author break into the business. Here are his seven key strategies for writing and publishing a non-fiction book.
Decide That You ARE an Author
Come up with a title for your book and start declaring that you're "Jane Smith, author of XYZ book." Canfield says that once you've declared yourself and your intentions, it will be much harder to fail; in fact, it will create positive momentum for you. The key to finishing is getting started.
Hoard Your Time
Set aside writing time and guard it like gold. Share your goal with your family and friends, and ask their help in keeping to your schedule. Your writing time should be non-negotiable. No basketball game, no telephone call and not even any visitor should interrupt it. Emergencies happen, but make sure the only time you give up writing time is a true emergency.
Find Your Dream Topic
What's your passion? Is there a topic you love so much that people often get bored when you go on and on about it? That's your passion, and the niche you should be working in. If you're good at it or you know a lot about it, and you can teach people about it, that's the core to your non-fiction career.
Find Your Ideal Reader
You've got a passion, but you have to find an audience. Who would most likely benefit from your knowledge of emergency prepping or vegetable growing? Your prepping knowledge might benefit campers, frugal people and those who want to live off-grid. Gardeners? Look for those in apartments for container gardens, families for kids gardens or those frugal people again, looking to save money by raising their own food. Find your audience and write your book aimed toward them.
Think About Co-Authors
Writing your book or books might be too much work, especially if you're planning to write an elaborate series all tied together under one imprint. Think about looking for like-minded authors to work with you. You'll get the work out faster and create more momentum, which usually translates into more sales.
Always Think Marketing
Writing the next book is always best, but book marketing is crucial if you want to sell any of those books. Write short chapters use can use as excerpts, interview experts who might review your books and contact social media groups long before your book ever gets published.
Meditate About Problems
Meditating is using your brain power and focusing your mind on a goal. If you're stuck on a title, a chapter or any part of the writing process, use meditation to solve the problem. That's how Canfield says he came up with the title Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Keep the Faith and May the Force be with You!
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The 2020 Writing Retreat in Maui
Chuck Sambuchino
- This is not a writer'sconference. It is a writing retreat. The amazing island setting allows writers to have the most downtime to write, learn, relax, meet other writers and read.
- It will last 4-5 days.
- I am aiming for fall/late 2020 — somewhere from September on of that year
- Because of limited space, this is a first-come-first-serve retreat, with 20 or fewer spots available.
- There will be almost a dozen intensive sessions on writing and publishing.
- All attendees will receive various personal critiques on their work.
- While many events take an academic focus, few events are able to seriously do all three of the following: 1) address the craft of writing and storytelling, 2) address the business of writing and getting published, and 3) allow writers plenty of time to recharge their batteries, read, and write creatively. This is a special retreat designed to not only maximize writing instruction and give writers the precise tools they need to get published, but also maximize personal time—whether than means writing, relaxing by the ocean, sipping a margarita, taking some time to meditate, or hopefully all four and much more.
- Maui is awesome.
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Overcome the Fear of Public Speaking
Here you are, perfectly relaxed as you attend the farewell party of Joe.
Your boss comes up and asks," Would you give the farewell speech to Joe in 10 minutes time?"
"I can't'" you splutter, "my vocal chords are paralyzed."
And the fear kicks in.
"I can't do this!"
I must be crazy!"
That doesn't work so now you wait for the floor to open up and swallow you.
That doesn't happen either.
Public Speaking creates a great deal of anxiety in most people and arises when they face the prospect of giving a speech, particularly for the first time.
The truth is that public speaking is always a mixture of terror and exhilaration.
For everyone.
It's just like snow skiing.
When you start, all you can think about is how awkward you are, how dangerous it is and how you'll never be able to do this.
You get one turn right, get up a little bit of speed, the snow starts to fly in the sunshine and a tiny bit of excitement pops up.
Later, as you become a more accomplished skier, the balance between terror and exhilaration changes.
Now you are zipping down the slopes, carving those turns and feeling like an Olympic Champion!
But there is always that little bit of anxiety lurking, as you speed across the snow.
Typically for beginners in public speaking, all we experience is the terror.
Waiting for our turn to come, starting our speech, the terror remains.
This seems to consume us, makes us irrational and we often feel paralysed.
Then somehow we get through the presentation, come from the stage and as the numbness wears off, the next feeling we have is relief that the ordeal is over.
However, we still retain a sneaking regard for our courage in making that speech and a small glow of exhilaration starts to burn within.
Particularly if we can stop saying to ourselves, "how bad we were."
In fact, as you walk from the spotlight, say, "Well done indeed," to yourself.
Why?
Because it's true.
With more practice, the amount of terror reduces and the amount of excitement increases.
Now you do another speech, another presentation and pretty soon you actually realise that you are enjoying this and you become amazed.
And slowly you become hooked on the excitement of giving a speech.
So much so that when you go to fridge in the night for a drink, the fridge light comes on, and you give a 5-minute presentation!
And then the fun starts to creep in.
And by the way.
If you do not have any nervousness or excitement just before you speak, you will come across to your audience as flat.
Did you know that some of the greatest orators in the world have been known to be physically sick, before giving a stirring speech.
So, always be kind to yourself.
You will get better, with every presentation that you make.
But you have to make the presentations.
So learn the information and then simply "do it!"
Roger Bourne has been involved in Public Speaking, Personal Development and Coaching for more than 25 years.
As published author of "From Fear to Fame in Public Speaking," he knows how to makes it clear and simple for people getting started in Public Speaking.
Visit: www.feartofame.com
If somebody told me, "Go out there and ruin your voice for the rest of your life", I could do it in less than 1 year. Here is what I would do:
Why does it so often seem like you turn around and it's midnight when you're raising your kids? It seems like no matter what you do sometimes, there's still a lot more work to do by the time you are ready to go to bed. What can you do?
The first thing you need to do is figure out where your time is going each day. Try making notes one day about what you do and how long it takes. If you're feeling really ambitious, you can try this for a week, since every day is going to be different, but even one day will give you an idea as to where you're using up all your time. It may feel like you're wasting time writing these things down, and they will slow you down a bit for that day, but it can be a big help.
Take a look at what you spent your day doing. Now assign a priority to each. How much time would you prefer to spend on each?
Now if you add all these up, you'll probably find out your day is more than 24 hours long if you include time to sleep. That's how it is being a parent.
The first thing you need to do is figure out what items can be done less often. Can you stand a little mess in the house? Can everyone else? Can you get more help from your spouse and the kids in keeping the house clean? You'll have to decide which solution is right for you.
What about time spent surfing the internet or watching TV? Give yourself time limits on each of these. If you have a Tivo or a VCR, try recording your favorite shows and watching them a little later, skipping the commercials. Not only does this allow you to choose the time you watch your shows, it can cut down their length.
Sometimes it can be hard finding enough time in your day to be with your kids, yet most parents will call this a priority. Just remember that time with your kids isn't just about having fun. Even small children can help out with making dinner, which can be a great time for talking with kids of any age. My three year old daughter has been helping make salads since she was two. The lettuce ends up in either rather large or very small pieces, but she has fun helping and we get some great time together. Older kids may or may not appreciate this time, but it's good for them to help out.
I definitely do not recommend cutting back on whatever meals you insist on eating as a family. This is a great thing to do as a family, and if you aren't making time for family meals, find a way to do so! Even if it's just dinner one night a week together, no activities or sports to run off too, your family needs the time to relax together.
Finally, are there things you can cut out all together? If you feel as though you've been pushed into doing things for others because you're at home and "have time," don't feel guilty about telling people that you do not have the time to do things they want you to do. Your family comes first. If you really want to volunteer, think about either cutting back the number of hours when you need more time for yourself or your family, or volunteering for something you can do as a family.
There are only so many hours to a day, and so many things you'd love to get done. Take a good look at what you need to do, want to do and don't really need to do, and you can find ways to feel a little less overwhelmed most of the time. You'll go through times where there just aren't enough hours in the day even when you know your priorities, but you can cut down on the less important stuff and relieve a lot of your stress.
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Stephanie Foster is the owner of Home with the Kids, a site for stay at home parents. If you want to learn more about time management as an at-home parent, please visit www.homewiththekids.com/time-management/
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How many times do we come before the Lord and beg Him that we may not miss a thing He has for us? Do our hearts truly long to do His will? Are we honestly evaluating our hearts cry may be more centered on experiencing His goodness, and more specifically, His blessings?
I ended my quiet time one morning praying earnestly not to miss a thing He has for me. I long to serve Him so that I will feel worthy, useful, and accepted. I have been praying I will not miss a thing He has for me so that I can receive those deeply craved words, Well done my good and faithful servant (Matthew 25:23). But as I was praying a convicting thought emerged. Do I really hear and know what I am praying for? I sat back, paused in my pleading, and thought for a moment. I realize my prayers are uttered from my heart to the Lord's ears to be mere words that falsely minister to my human flesh need that my works will get kudos from the Lord.
My prayers are guided by a season of suffering, of intense despiracy for relief. Could it be that suffering is one of those things that the Lord has for me? When suffering knocks at the door of my life I pout, complain, resist, get mad, and blame sovereign God. Yet, my prayer has been to not miss a thing. My child-like responses are becoming the obstacles to which God has provided to take me deeper into a treasured knowledge of Him and His attributes. In sinking into despair and anger, I am actually resisting the answer to my prayers that my heart truly longs for!
Oh, how narrow and worldly is our vision. We have the simple belief that God is rich in love, and that His grace and love carries us on this journey. Because of those qualities, we blindly ignore our heart bent requests come from only wanting good things, such as comfort, ease, prosperity, a sense of contentedness. We resist suffering, fight it, and call it evil. Not to be misunderstood, Gods original plan was not suffering, but it is here through the fallenness of man and yet, He invites us to share, fellowship, and join Him in the suffering of His beloved Son. I conclude, this is one of those things He has perfectly crafted for us.
At times I get frustrated with my humanness. My heart does want to be joined with Him, for His breath to be my breath, but my frailty is always getting in the way. I truly do not want to miss a thing and He responds by saying, Ok. Trust Me then, in all things!
What an enormous calling! It requires complete surrender of what I constitute as good, what seems right, and righteous. I observe Paul's passion and my heart receives wise counsel: I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised Him from the dead. I want to suffer with Him, sharing in His death, so that, in one way or another, I will experience the resurrection from the dead! (Philippians 3:10-11)
My heart is encouraged by the correction. I embrace suffering in the strength provided by Him and I am drawn deeper and deeper still into the Fathers love.
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