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Book Cover Design - Beginning Tips on How to Write Your Book & Inspire Your Book's Design
You have an idea for a book. Now What? Let's explore what it takes to write a book. Keep in mind that there are many different ways to begin writing a book and there have been many books written on the subject. So if my article hits home in even a little way... research what's out there for more information and start today... following your dream!
Here are a few beginning tips to writing your book:
1. What are your strengths, creating, developing, writing, editing, or slaes and marketing. Take your best strength and begin there and figure out how to get the rest done through other vendor services.
2. Pick the type of book you'll write:
--Non-fiction: how to books, self improvement, hobbies, psychology, coaching, tips
--Fiction: mystery, who-done-it, fantasy, science fiction, romance
3. Pick a subject that is interesting to you, something that others will be interested in learning more about and make it tightly focused for best results. Maybe you have a business service you want to promote or a new profession you are learning about and want to share the knowledge you are learning.
4. Create an outline of frequently asked or interesting questions. This becomes your table of contents that you'll write into.
5. Start collecting all types of information that relates to your outlined points. One of the best ways I've used is to create a three ring binder with divider pages that have pockets or use plastic sleeves and start organizing your clippings or notes you take as thoughts come to you.
6. Now determine if you are going to be the one to do the actual writing or are you going to hire an assistant. This is the first step for creating your final manuscript. Whether you are the one who will do the writing, or someone else, start that process once you have gathered enough research to fill a chapter. Don't worry yet about writing in sequence unless this is important to you, the flow paragraphs can come at a later version.
These are just a few beginning tips to get you started. While you are in this creation mode, be sure to keep an eye out for possible titles and subtitle opportunities as well as design elements you like that other authors have taken advantage of... these are all input you can relate to your book cover designer when the time comes to design your book.
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Make a 6 Figure Income Writing & Publishing Your Own Books! (Part One)
From the live recession-proof now audio series!
Part 1
Today, I begin a series of articles on How to make a 6 figure income Writing and Publishing your own book; I would like to write a book someday", with the hope and dream of selling 1000's of copies of my "NY Times Bestseller".
My motivations for writing and publishing have since changed. Research and experience has taught me that though it is possible to sell 1000's of copies of a book - and many authors do - most authors, self published or otherwise, never sell more than 10,000 copies. If you do the math, there is not much money to be made in selling 10,000 copies of any book. So why write a book? Some basic reasons for writing and publishing your own book are:
It is one of the easiest ways to Supplement or replace your income
It is a skillful way to grow any business
It is a simple way to develop a massive product & service line
It is a natural way to Sell lots of products
It is a effortless way to Promote your services
It is a practical way to Live Recession-Proof Now!
During my many years as a Business Growth & Marketing Specialist, I have met hundreds of aspiring authors with dreams of one day writing a book. This should not be a surprise. Almost everyone has a desire to write and expose something to the world.
Unfortunately, for most of these aspiring authors the desire to write and publish a book never moves from aspiration to motivation and then a completed project. There are many reasons for the "gap" between knowing or desiring and Doing. However, time would not permit me to get into why this is so. For insight into the human dilemma of "knowing and doing", take a look at my article series entitled "Knowledge is Power - Debunked!"
Without getting into Psycho babble or giving the impression that I am smarter than I am, one of the ways to conquer complacency, procrastination and slothfulness - one of the reasons for the "gap" between knowing and doing - is to uncover or discover a big enough WHY. A big WHY is what moves individuals from a wish or want, to getting things done! It was a big why that motivated Thomas Edison to launch 14 companies, including General Electric, and persevere through 1000's of disappointments to eventually develop the patent that improved on the light bulb and provide it for home use.
During the next few articles, I will provide some of my Why's for writing and publishing books. I hope they provide you the incentive you need to persevere or get started and Live Recession-Proof Now!
10 Benefits of Writing & Publishing your own Book!
Writing and Publishing a book is a great way to supplement your income!
Writing and Publishing a book is one of the easiest and best ways to sell your products & services!
Writing and Publishing a book provides Instant Credibility!
Writing and Publishing a book provides a Platform for speaking engagements.
Writing and Publishing a book positions you as an authority, leader or expert in your field or industry!
Writing and Publishing a book provides content for lectures and teaching opportunities!
Writing and Publishing a book provides material to Create additional Products for additional revenue; i.e. Ebooks, Audio CD's, DVD's, Workshops, Workbooks, Tele-Classes, Radio Shows etc.
Writing and Publishing a book allows you to charge higher speaking fees! Your and author now.
Writing and Publishing a book provides content for coaching and consulting programs - another stream of income!
Writing and Publishing a book justifies higher coaching or Consulting Fees.
If I was to give this more thought, I am sure I could provide another 10 benefits. Hopefully you will find an incentive here for you to continue reading. If you are new to Book Writing or Publishing, here is a wealth of FREE information. A great place to get started! So you want to write a book?
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2010/07/11
Do Virtual Book Tours Sell Books?
There has been an interesting conversation over at Book Market Ning Social Network concerning virtual book tours. An author was interested in finding out whether virtual book tours worked well as marketing tools and whether they really sold books.
I'm sure everyone else was wondering the very same thing.
We get the same question at Pump Up Your Book Promotion. Authors are very interested in whether their promotional dollars will be spent in a good place and I can certainly understand that.
If you are like one of those authors, let me explain what I tell them. Virtual book tours are but one vehicle to sell books, but if you choose this method to publicize your book, it's money well spent as it will greatly increase your online presence, thus making it more available to people who search for your book online using your key search words.
It's not rocket science, but it is a formula you must use.
So, how does this add up to book sales?
Don't bother emailing the author because they aren't going to know exactly unless they are self-published. If they are not self-published, there are five ways they can at least take a stab at it:
1. Amazon Rankings
Amazon is the world's largest book store and goes by a ranking system. According to the people who think they have solved the mystery of how books are selling there, it operates by putting a ranking number in your book description. The lower the number, the better the book is selling.
If your book dips in rankings, it is assumed you have sold a book. If it does not climb quickly during the next few days, you can safely assume that the book is still selling. If it takes a nosedive under the 100,000 mark and continues to stay there or even dip lower, you can safely assume you are selling more than a few books. Stick around the #1 spot and you are really doing well as far as sales are concerned.
But, there's no real way in telling exactly how many books are being sold and why your rankings are what they are but you can use that guide as a good ball park guess. I've had authors tell me their books moved during the tour, but no one can safely assume it was because of the tour or any other type of promotion they may be doing at the same time. But, a ball park guess is better than no guess at all.
2. Ingrams
Of course, if your book is not distributed through Ingrams, this won't do you a bit of good, but there is a number you can call and their automated system will be able to tell you how many books were sold on a certain date. The number is 615-213-6803.
The problem with this method, though, is that not all the sales may be reported at the time of your call because it could take more time for the sale to get into the Ingram system. This is a fun thing to use and you could get quite obsessive over it, but it's also not a sure-fire way to tell just how many books were sold during your tour unless you wait for weeks afterwards and call. And, then, it's still a ballpark guess as to whether it was because of your tour or not.
3. Word of Mouth
Another surefire way of knowing if your books sold during your tour is for someone you know to tell you they bought one of your books in that time span. If your Amazon rankings have moved about this time, you can assume that this might have been why, but there's no way of knowing this to be a fact or not. And, again, word of mouth is simply word of mouth.
4. Royalty Checks
Of all the ways of telling if you have sold books that we have discussed thus far, your royalty check is your best bet. ONLY, if Amazon or any of the other online bookstores have sent their money to the publisher. I knew I sold books through Amazon (word of mouth) during one pay period, but my sales were not reported on my royalty check. Seems it takes Amazon a while to deliver.
5. Publisher
Perhaps the best method of knowing if you have sold books is to ask your publisher to keep an eye out for sales during this time. However, this method can only work if all sales were reported during this time and your publisher has an account with BookScan (www.bookscan.com).
This is perhaps the ONLY surefire way you are going to know if you sold books during a certain time frame. It is quite expensive to have an account at BookScan, but some publishers feel it's well worth the expense.
Bottom line is, the next time someone asks if virtual book tours sell books, check with your publisher to see if they have an account at BookScan, because any other way of telling is not going to tell the whole story.
Virtual book tours are just like any other promotional opportunity for the author; only, it's probably the best way to hit your audience on a global scale. Besides, virtual book tours are perpetual. Long after your tour is over, it still keeps going and going because as long as the tour host keeps your appearance in their archives, it will continue to bring in those book sales to those online consumers who use the search engines to find what they need.
2010/05/13
What Defines a Bestseller in Books?
Every author dreams of writing a bestselling book, but few new authors really understand what it takes to be a bestseller and just what defines a bestseller.
What it takes is selling a lot of books. How to do so is an entire topic of its own, but before figuring out how to reach the goal, authors first need to understand what the goal is. Just what does it mean to have a bestselling book-how many books do you have to sell?
Today, a bestseller is usually determined either by 1) Making the New York Times Bestseller list, 2) Having a high Amazon sales rank, or 3) Selling a large number of copies.
How does a book get on the New York Times Bestseller list? The truth of the matter is it's rather arbitrary. The New York Times has relationships with numerous bookstores that report their weekly sales to the New York Times. (Note that the New York Times' numbers do not include Internet sales, sales in department stores like Walmart, or sales in local gift shops). The books that sell the most each week in the targeted stores determine which ones make the list. If your fishing book is selling like hotcakes in Minnesota, but no bookstore there is reporting to the New York Times, your book isn't going to make the list, even if you sell more copies than the current Harry Potter of that week. Just as political polls have margins for error, so do the bestseller lists because it would be impossible to track each week every book sold everywhere in the country.
A book that never appears on the New York Times Bestseller list may well be a bestseller and outsell books on that list over time. Books that do not make a hit when they first come out can become popular through word-of-mouth and sell enough copies to achieve bestseller status even if they never appear on any bestseller lists. (Note that other lists exist such as Publishers Weekly, but the New York Times is the best known. Comparing a few different lists will show different books and different ranks, which shows no numbers are perfect representations of book sales. Accurate numbers are nearly impossible to acquire since publishers withhold sales numbers as privileged information, until generally books sell a million copies and then publishers simply print something like "Over a million copies sold" on paperback reprints).
Amazon has also become a key player in determining a bestseller because it provides a sales rank for each book listed. By getting a high sales ranking, for example, top 100, a book can also claim bestseller status. Like the New York Times, however, if a book on Amazon sells steadily but does not sell a large number within a short timeframe, its sales rank is not likely to go up as high as a book that sells ten thousand in a week. According to Brent Sampson's "Sell Your Book on Amazon" (2007) to acquire a ranking of 1-10, a book must sell over 500 copies in a day. Books that sell only one copy a week by comparison, end up in the 10,000-100,000 ranking. Many authors follow various strategies to manipulate and increase their book's Amazon rating by holding campaigns to sell as many books as possible within a week.
So just how many books do you need to sell to claim bestseller status? According to self-publishing guru, Dan Poynter, the number is 35,000. Since the popularity of a bestseller can be long or short, I think that's a fair number. A book might come out and make a huge hit and sell a million copies in a year, and then be forgotten. Other books, like the Bible, "A Tale of Two Cities" or "Pride and Prejudice" never appear on bestseller lists but they continue to sell steadily and have far outsold most books making the bestseller lists simply by their quality, word of mouth, and acceptance as great literature.
To sell 35,000 copies of your book is a big task. Studies show that 500,000 books a year are now being published. Of those, over 98% will sell less than 500 copies. If you're just starting out, shooting for 500 is a good start. After that, I would say you're moderately successful-and ready to strive for the thousands.
How important is it to claim "bestseller status"? At Wikipedia is an excellent list of all top ten bestsellers by year in the United States. Take a look at the list from 1951:
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
Moses by Sholem Asch
The Cardinal by Henry Morton Robinson
A Woman Called Fancy by Frank Yerby
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
Melville Goodwin, U.S.A. by John P. Marquand
Return to Paradise by James A. Michener
The Foundling by Cardinal Spellman
The Wanderer by Mika Waltari
My guess is that, with the exception of maybe the first two listed, most of us have never heard of these books. So I ask again, how important is it to have a bestseller?
Your book may never make a bestseller list, but steady wins the race. Over time, you may sell more copies of your book than those books that make the bestseller lists. Authors dream of becoming famous over night, but producing a quality book is the best investment if you're looking for longevity, and longevity, in my opinion, is the best indication of success.
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Many appreciate Richard P. Feynman's contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize how engaged he was with the world around him-how deeply and thoughtfully he considered the religious, political, and social issues of his day. Now a wonderful book-based on a previously unpublished, three-part public lecture he gave at the University of Washington in 1963-shows us this other side of Feynman, as he expounds on the inherent conflict between science and religion, on people's distrust of politicians, and on our universal fascination with flying saucers, faith healing, and mental telepathy.
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In this series of lectures originally given in 1963, which remained unpublished during Richard Feynman's lifetime, the Nobel-winning physicist thinks aloud on several "meta"--questions of science. What is the nature of the tension between science and religious faith? Why does uncertainty play such a crucial role in the scientific imagination? Is this really a scientific age?
Marked by Feynman's characteristic combination of rationality and humor, these lectures provide an intimate glimpse at the man behind the legend. "In case you are beginning to believe," he says at the start of his final lecture, "that some of the things I said before are true because I am a scientist and according to the brochure that you get I won some awards and so forth, instead of your looking at the ideas themselves and judging them directly...I will get rid of that tonight. I dedicate this lecture to showing what ridiculous conclusions and rare statements such a man as myself can make." Rare, perhaps. Irreverent, sure. But ridiculous? Not even close.
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Now and again a gem comes from a book and this is one of the classics of American literature, on the basis of common sense, intelligence and a reasonable way to resolve the unknown.
"All other aspects and characteristics of science can be understood directly when we realize that the observation is the ultimate and final judge of the truth of an idea," says Feynman. Instead of pulling out the demon of belly or an ideology, sought meaning from Feynmandirect observation. This is a rare quality and revolutionary, especially at a time, as are most of the ideas of the performance of any conservative or liberal bias base. Feynman was a master of close observation, rather than ideology carefree.
Okay, so much for his resume. An essential quality of this book comes from three conferences held in a refined setting. Instead of a thousand pages, a 'idea, education, a presentation will be limited to the essential facts about the ability of the baseto sit comfortably and dozing behind the human mind not having a nap. This is not Cuba, where the faithful endure hours and hours of contemporary drone, is America, where the speakers are dull quick, bright and ready to break in time for a cup of coffee or trivial.
Feynman destroys the rigid ideologies of politics and religion, without attacking or he describes religion as an essential quality of human experience, but remains farthe requirement of faith is not based on facts observed. Even then, he recalls how observations change with new discoveries.
Most valuable experience for him, life was possible because of continuous learning. His tone is conversational, not pedantic, it is a wise teacher talk comfortably average listener, not an abstruse scholars to discuss the arcane theories among his colleagues. Think of Abraham Lincoln democracy as "the people described by the people, forpeople. . . "Compare the hundreds of pages of Alexis de Tocqueville to describe" Democracy in America "and capsulize the possibility for some of the few people to just understand the heart of a problem. This explains why a politician can not honestly to be successful, but a good scientist is always a pleasure.
In terms of every day, does not need to talk Feynam "of science, science for science." Looks better, explains how you can develop a similar rational approach to life onthe basis of "all scientific knowledge is uncertain."
He says instead of the rigid orthodoxy and ideology, Feynman, "If you look at the situation or not want, in a new direction, if we did not have a doubt or recognize ignorance, we do not get any new ideas. It would be worth nothing because we want to know what is true. "
This is a rare quality. Most people do not like to think, but rather the principles hoary Harry Potter. It is not a book for the complacentpleased with himself, or religious fanatics, is the pursuit of knowledge, which are not safe. The scientific method provides the insight to recognize the "If you're not sure you have the opportunity to improve the situation."
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