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If you’re looking for book ideas, why not write a memoir? You already have the content—you’ve got the advice to “write what you know” well and truly covered. Unfortunately, most authors experience stumbling blocks when they write from real life. We’ll look at some tips to help you to overcome them. A quick note: these tips are for you if … Read more
Want to be more productive? Try developing a writing process which includes warm ups. When you warm up before writing, you’ll eliminate procrastination and you’ll get more writing done in less time. Over the years, whenever I’ve skipped warm ups because deadlines loomed, I discovered projects took longer and frequently developed unexpected challenges. Try a couple of these warm ups … Read more
Interested in offering book ghostwriting services? If you love to write and think you’d enjoy writing books for others, you may have a career as a book ghostwriter ahead of you. In this article, we’ll look at ghostwriting nonfiction books, like biographies, memoirs, and other nonfiction. In some ways, ghostwriting a nonfiction book is more challenging than fiction, because you’ll … Read more
Got a nonfiction book which isn’t selling? There are few things more frustrating than spending your time writing a book and then discovering that sales are slow or non-existent. Over the past couple of months several writers have talked about slowing sales, so let’s look at ways you can boost sales of your nonfiction book with a couple of quick … Read more
Over lunch recently, a friend asked me: “What’s happened to self-publishing? Is it over? The sales for my latest book are atrocious.” I felt for him. It happens. A book for which we had high hopes does little or nothing. But that can change. We’re not living in the traditional publishing era when a book was dead and remaindered after … Read more