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Get the information you need to make the right writing and publishing decisions each Friday, as Roger C. Parker blogs about the steps it takes to plan, write, promote, and profit from a nonfiction book
Each post addresses one of the steps that make up Roger’s Publishing Success Cycle. Learn the questions to answer, and the best practices to follow, when writing a book to drive sales and build your personal brand. Stops along the Author’s Journey include:
Table of Contents
Step 1: Plan
- Author’s Journey #1: Does writing a book make sense for you?
- Author’s Journey #2: How to target the right readers for your book?
- Author’s Journey #3: What should you write about?
- Author’s Journey #4: How to research your book’s competition?
- Author’s Journey #5: Choosing the right publishing alternative
- Author’s Journey #6: What’s the best size for your book?
- Author’s Journey #7: Who can help you write your book?
Step 2: Write
- Author’s Journey #8: How much of your book you have already written
- Author’s Journey #9: Cultivating the habits of writing success
- Author’s Journey #10: How to make the time to write your book?
- Author’s Journey #11: Do you have the tools you need to write a book?
- Author’s Journey #12: How to create a content plan for your book?
- Author’s Journey #13: Testing your book’s proposed title and subtitle
- Author’s Journey #14: How to get others to help you write your book?
- Author’s Journey #15: Crafting the perfect book proposal
- Author’s Journey #16: Attracting the right literary agent
- Author’s Journey #17: Finishing your book on time and avoiding writer’s block
Step 3: Promote
- Author’s Journey #18: Evaluating your current online visibility
- Author’s Journey #19: Create an online hub for marketing your book
- Author’s Journey #20: Choosing the right incentive to build your list
- Author’s Journey #21: Use Tip Sheets to market your book
- Author’s Journey #22: Use one sheets to sell books and build your profits
- Author’s Journey #23: Tips for using teleconferences to launch your book
- Author’s Journey #24: Building your expert network and Obtaining pre-publication quotes
- Author’s Journey #25: Using video to market and sell your book
- Author’s Journey #26: Speak your way to book publishing success
- Author’s Journey #27: Building relationships with your readers
- Author’s Journey #28: Creating a marketing plan for your book
Step 4: Profit
- Author’s Journey #29: Research Tips – How do other authors profit?
- Author’s Journey #30: Creating information products
- Author’s Journey #31: Managing and Marketing information products
- Author’s Journey #32: Speaking for Profit
- Author’s Journey #33: 7 Keys to Profitable Special Events
- Author’s Journey #34: Choosing a Title for your follow-up book
2011 Author’s Journey Update
- Easy ways to organize blog posts, books and ebooks
- Use a Manifesto to build your brand, grow your list & sell more books
- Why you should Delay Writing your Brand-building Book
- Flexible Focus #72: Use an Author’s Mandala Chart to Write & Publish a Book
- Self-Published Authors Need Developmental Editing, Too!
- 12 Ideas and Tips for Finishing Your Book on Time!
Roger coaches authors using the 4-step plan, write, promote, and profit worksheet-based system he used to write over 30 books that have sold more than 1.6 million copies. His latest book is #Book Title Tweet: 140 Bite-Sized Ideas for Compelling Book, Article and Event Titles. Learn more at Published & Profitable and his Daily Writing Tips Blog