From beloved artist Jill Bliss, this eco-friendly postcard collection features gorgeous sea themes, including coral, anemones, urchins, mussels, sea stars, and more. Share with friends and family, or display the collection as one long underwater scene. Read more
A concise, inspirational discourse by one of America's finest writers, on the difficulties, rewards, and importance of teaching creative writing.This tiny little volume evolved from a series of discussions with Wallace Stegner during his two-month residency at Dartmouth College in the summer of 1980. Stegner (author of Angle of Repose and The Spectator Bird) was among the first students in the U.S. to receive a master's degree in creative writing; he also founded and directed for 25 years Stanford University's creative writing program. Thus, he is unusually qualified to address the issue of teaching writing. Stegner calls to task those instructors who use their classrooms to create a coterie of copiers, as well as those indulgent professors who rhapsodize about their students' work without warrant. "Young writers should be encouraged to write," he says, "and discouraged from thinking they are writers," as the process of becoming a writer is a "long, long apprenticeship." Instead, a writing instructor need have "sympathy, empathy, [and] a capacity to enter into another mind without dominating it." Finally, he says, it is by way of the Socratic method that writers should be educated. "Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.... All a teacher can do is set high goals for students--or get them to set them for themselves--and, then, try to help them reach those goals." --Jane Steinberg Read more
Substantially updated and revised, the third edition of Philosophical Writing is designed to help those with little or no experience in philosophy to think and write successfully.
A succinct summary of what really works in getting the media attention your book needs to survive -- and thrive. Read more
When vandals deface the Harmony Point sign, the town does indeed seem to become the “arm Pit” of the region. The baseball team hasn’t won a game in two seasons and the town itself is falling into disrepair. But when the new postmaster becomes the new ball coach, Clay and the rest of the Terriers finally seem to stand a chance of winning a game. Until they overhear a bureaucrat from the city say that the post office will close unless “the numbers” work out. The team begins “Operation Tennis Elbow”: a letter-writing campaign designed to generate enough mail to keep the post office—and its postmaster—in town. And along the way, they learn the power of the pen in effecting positive changes in their community.
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We all talk about it: Changing our lives. What we're going to do. Want to do. Will do. Wish we'd done. Until: Game over, flat line. Maybe next time. Randumb tells the story of an Irish Mark who one day decided to make the change. Abandoned the regular way of life. Took a shot. Gave it a shot. Leaving the green fields of Ireland, going to Hollywood. Chasing the dream. Chasing his tail. Randumb takes the reader on an unforgettable journey through the real world of life in LA for an Irish immigrant. Random. Dumb. Models. Actors. Actresses. Parties. Porn. Orgies. Nutters. Producers. Directors. Singers. Hippies. Buckets. Leprechauns. Gay gyms. DJing. Dancing. Prancing. Drink. Drugs. Freaks. Fakes. Friends. Stand up. Knocked down. Dressed up. Stripped down. Troughs. Hills. Gutters. Stars. Highest highs. Lowest lows. Trying to make it. All the time.
Mark Hayes has lived the life in LA, and has an assortment of scars to prove it. The message rings out from every page: Give it a go. Live life. Go with the flow. But maybe think twice about scat-singing, leprechaun-obsessed hippies.
Includes forewords from Robbie Williams, Craig Robinson and Caridee English. It is not often that a global icon, one of the world's top comedic actors (US Office, Hot Tub Time Machine) and the winner of America's Next Top Model come together in acknowledging an Irish published book by a debut Irish author! Read more
The Footprints of My Heart Poem by American Poet Carolyn Joyce Carty original poetry original art. The Footprints of My Heart is a Anniversary poem, a How to Say I Love You poem, a Wedding Poem of Love. Blank Writing Journals, includes Love poem, Great Gifts for Women, Poetry gifts, item can be used for wedding quest registry, or general guest books. Versatile gifts. Read more
May Sarton describes living at her eighteenth-century house in Nelson, New Hampshire—how she acquired it, how it and the garden became part of her.
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Get Rich in a Niche shows you how to be a niche expert in three well explained steps
1. Become an expert
2. Publish your book
3. Market your book
Become an Expert
Perhaps you have observed a unique need or product that has not been provided. Maybe you notice that there is a lack of information, study programs, or guidance within a particular area. You might even have the answer inside of you that will help people get to where they need to be or reach some sort of professional or personal goal. Success depends on whether or not you meet an important step; to become recognized as an expert.
Are you an expert?
If so, you've successfully asked and answered the following questions:
What is lacking in my industry?
How can I help?
Will others be able to understand the plan?
Will others be willing to pay for this knowledge?
Is there anything that I can offer for free to help build credibility and become "go to" person?
What are some concrete ways that I can get my message out?
We'll show you how to create a huge presence and become the in demand expert.
Teach your subject in continuing education courses
Write captivating articles
Do the things that get your name recognized by your market
Use social networking effectively
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Jeff's book is complete with planning tools to help you establish yourself as a niche expert/leader.
Publishing
Self-publishing is a respected avenue for authors. Traditional publishing doesn't always meet niche industry needs. Even if all the customers bought books, there wouldn't be enough sales to warrant the huge financial, time and resource commitment required of a traditional publisher. This is a great opportunity because niche markets have a built in audience with little to no competition. These markets may consist of only a few thousand people and have needs that aren't being directly met by traditional publishers. That's where you come in.
This is different from other self-publishing books. Marketing in a niche is trickier than when offered to more generalized audiences. This book will show you how to apply lessons from successful marketing techniques the author has used and without added business costs.
Whether or not you are engaged in a business, you can begin a publishing company or writing career with little upfront costs. You can simply engage already available resources such as your computer, internet provider and desktop publishing software. If you already have the basics, then you can begin immediately and develop a great business without going into debt.
Let's dispel some myth's to help you understand why it's important for a niche expert like you to embrace self-publishing.
This book will show you how to:
Establish your company
Write a book day by day
Create your book as you build credibility as an expert
Format your book
Self-publish your book
Marketing
Forget what you've learned about marketing. While others advertise their broad ranging products spending freely, niche marketers have to use more intense focus. Using traditional marketing techniques will cause you to lose money, time and market share.
This book demonstrates how to sell your book by:
Leveraging your steps to becoming an expert
Creating huge online presence
Getting great results with no marketing expenses
Jeff's book also shows you how to earn money from spin off products, newsletters and blogs. It is complete with planning tools to help you develop spin off products. His security certification book led to three related books, training, magnets and other related products. Read more
Featuring the exquisite underwater illustrations of artist Jill Bliss, this stationery collection celebrates the beauty and magic of the sea. Read more
The popular, brief rhetoric that treats writing as thinking, WRITING ANALYTICALLY offers a sequence of specific prompts that teach students across the curriculum how the process of analysis and synthesis is a vehicle for original and well-developed ideas. Read more
IMPORTANT: Amazon has redesigned the DTP software! This update addresses the new changes. Also included is a section on how to get your book listed with Barnes & Nobel. Now your book will be available for Apple’s iPad and iPhone, B&N’s Nook, Personal Computers (PC), and Android’s smartphones as well as Amazon’s Kindle. This is an easy to read, to the point book that explains how to publish your novel, comic book, grocery list, or just about anything else on Amazon's amazing Kindle, and how to do it for practically nothing. Let me say that again...this book is "NOT" about how to write your novel, or how to promote it. This isn't a tips and tricks book and it won't help you to get your book on the New York Times best seller list. This is a, GET ME ON AMAZON (and Barnes & Noble) so I can SELL MY BOOK...book! Other things you need to be aware of are covered in the book as well. Such as...opening a bank account, registering a domain name, setting up a website, designing the cover, writing the description, filing the copyright and adding the copyright page. Each step in the publishing process is explained in a simple and easily understood manner. You won't believe how quickly you can have your book on-line and FOR SALE. How To Publish Anything On Amazon's Kindle is available in paperback and e-book formats. For information about the author, visit: www.randybenjamin.com Read more
Complete concise guide to writing fiction that sells.Get a master's competitive edge in the writing business. Bestselling writer, editor and renown writing teacher Algis Budrys has distilled 50 years of success into "Writing to the Point."This is the book you need to be a better, and more successful, author.Write better stories. Fix mistakes in your present stories!Algis Budrys's Writing to The Point contains all the writing articles that appeared over the first ten issues of tomorrow Magazine, re-edited and expanded. It has an introduction by the author, and an appendix containing three separate essays:"Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy"Ideas, How They Work And How To Fix Them"What a Story Is."In this book you will find, in permanent form, everything an aspiring amateur needs to know in order to become a published author. Algis Budrys has taught hundreds of people at scores of workshops, and edited not only tomorrow Magazine but many books and other magazines. The methods he describes in Writing to The Point are methods that have worked repeatedly. Read more
In this volume c. a. lindsay captures the spirit of San Diego County which includes a military community and broad geographic diversity. Her poetry touches the human soul in poems that were inspired by life, including the grief she suffered in the loss of her husband and 16 year old daughter. Lindsay's poetry has gained recognition in both literary (Old Hickory Review, The Kit-Cat Review, Mobius) as well as commercial (Leatherneck, Magazine of the Marines, USA Today, The Poet's Pen) publications. An award winning poet, she had been selected as Poet of the Week for Poetry Express and The Poetry Super Highway. She won Editor's Choice Award and "Poet of the Quarter" from Dr. Charles Cravy, President of the Society of American Poets, Georgia. Lindsay's poetry has also been included in month-long juried art shows in San Diego County Performing Arts Centers. Read more
This book is aimed at all writers who wish to be successful whether in printed books and/or Kindle.
My name is John Smale and I am the Managing Director of an expanding publishing company, emp3books ltd.
Having spent many years in the corporate world as a Director for international companies my knowledge of marketing, selling and promoting has been added to the emp3books Ltd mix for gaining sales for books.
In the last few years we have added many authors, who are very happy with the service that is supplied in preparing books for publishing, getting them printed and then distributed with the major online retailers such as amazon, Kindle, Barnes and Noble worldwide.
The way we work involves no investment in stock by the authors. We use the strengths of Print-on-demand for physical books and also Kindle and eBook technology for this rapidly growing market.
This book has been written to help authors, new and established, to overcome obstacles and to become successful with their creative efforts. It is based on the work that has been undertaken by emp3books for authors and the methods will save the writer many hours of frustration.
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The Moleskine Cahiers are journals with a flexible heavy-duty cardboard cover in black with visible stitching on the spine. The last 16 sheets are detachable and there is a pocket for loose notes. Each set of 3 pieces includes the Moleskine history. With acid free paper ruled pages.
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Early Praise for "Dollars & Sense":
"An incredible resource for all authors, Indie or not! ...The concepts covered in Dollars & Sense have helped me to sell over 5000 eBooks in under six months. Read it, study it, use it."
-Ann Charles,
Award-winning Author
"Nearly Departed in Deadwood" and "Optical Delusions in Deadwood"
"Wow! Dollars & Sense, the IBC's new how-to book marketing book, is a straight-talking, straight-shooting MUST-READ for ALL authors - indie or traditionally published - who want their books to rise above the noise."
- Terri Giuliano Long,
Award-winning author
"In Leah's Wake"
Overview:
"Dollars & Sense: The Definitive Guide to Self-publishing Success" is a step-by-step actionable road map to increasing royalties for beginners and seasoned professionals alike. Divided into three sections; Producing a Sales-Friendly, Professional eBook, Establishing & Leveraging Your Social Media Platform, and Selling Smarter, Not Harder, "Dollars & Sense" walks authors through the process of creating then actually selling their eBook.
More Praise for "Dollars & Sense":
"Brilliantly written. A book every indie author needs to reach full potential and take the publishing industry by storm."
-Kelli McCracken,
ParaYourNormal.com
"I have found many separate guides out there for writing, publishing, and marketing books in the modern age but never before have I found such a comprehensive resource in one, concise work. Dollars & Sense is now my author/publisher/marketer bible."
-Jeremy Rodden,
Smashwords Bestselling author
"Toonopolis"
"Dollars and Sense" answers such questions as...
- "Do I really need an eBook? (and if I do, how in the heck do I create one?)
- "Does social media REALLY sell books?" (i.e. is social media a waste of my time?)
- "How can I cut through the noise and make my book stand out and sell?"
Any author (traditionally published or indie, first time published or multi-titled) will learn so many proven sales techniques from this guide. All recommendations are given with specific, actionable, and fully explained steps to accomplish every author's end goal... selling more books.
So no matter where you are in your writing career, "Dollars & Sense: The Definitive Guide to Self-publishing Success" is for anyone who wants to dramatically increase their royalties!
And priced under 5 bucks, the guide is a bargain to boot! You would need to sell just 5-10 more of your books based on its advice to have it pay for itself!
More reviews:
"I may have published at the end of January 2011, but I wish I had a copy of this the September before."
-Brandy Hunt
Author, "Promise Kept"
"Dollars and Sense is hands down the most helpful book I've read on Indie publishing and marketing."
-Jackie Chanel
Author, "Untitled*"
"This book is set to be a book that any and all self-publisher author should read, and a book that any and all traditionally published author must."
-Augusto Pinaud
Smashwords Bestselling author
"The Writer"
"This book saved me thousands of dollars and months of research. It's now my go to handbook!"
Elena Gray
Author, Night Visions
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Selling Stories Successfully is an essay published by 40kBooks. 40kBooks publishes a select number of titles by award-winning authors from across the globe.
When you read an essay, you invest time. Our essays are designed to deliver focused knowledge in +/- an hour. Efficiency = Reading Time / Knowledge Delivered.
REVIEW
Picture the scene. You’re a struggling writer. You’ve written the most incredible story. You’ve come up with a yarn that’s Twilight times ten, a novel that makes Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy look so last century. There’s only one problem. It’s a major problem, however. You’ve got to sell the thing. You have to persuade people to buy it, both literally and metaphorically. You’ve woken up to the fact that storytelling and storyselling are two completely different things. As J.G. Ballard once ruefully observed: “any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it”.
So, what do you do? How do you ensure that your Twilight times ten gets selected ahead of every other Twilight times ten on the publisher’s slush pile?
Fortunately, there is a simple solution: Instead of turning into the Business & Management aisles of your friendly neighbourhood mega-bookstore, or online emporium, head straight for the fiction section. Yes, the fiction section. The best insights into buying and selling and marketing and branding, and all that other awful stuff, are found in works of fiction, not big boring anthologies or dry-as-dust academic articles. When it comes to sales & marketing, one learned commentator makes clear, “you can learn more from a reasonably good novel than a solid piece of social science research”.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Author of several books (from Writing Marketing to The Marketing Code), «Stephen Brown is the treat you can read between deals without ruining your marketing strategy».
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
40kBooks is the first Italian digital publisher. Its eBooks are divided into two categories: Essays and Stories. Essays comprise a selection dealing with digital culture. Stories are novelettes by award-winning authors from different countries and cultures. All of the 40kBook titles are published in multiple languages including Italian, English, Portuguese, Spanish and French and are available all over the world.
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English usage and grammar textbooks, at least those volumes when in paper print, are so big, so heavy…so complete. Students toting books and laptops in backpacks need relief, just as home authors can use more space on their reference bookshelves. So You Want To Be an Author? takes up little space and weight but most importantly provides immediate answers to questions about grammar, spelling, punctuation and writing style. No searching through voluminous chapters in textbooks or scrolling incessant computer files. Pick a subject and go right to it for realistic examples of literary usage drawn from the author’s more than four decades working both sides of the editorial desk. Let his experience as magazine Editor, Managing Editor, Editorial director; independent book editor; and his four hundred articles and thirteen books as a fellow author, be your compact and shortcut guide along the path to literary success.
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With millions of copies sold, the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is the style manual of choice for writers, editors, students, educators, and professionals in psychology, sociology, business, economics, nursing, social work, and justice administration, and other disciplines in which effective communication with words and data is fundamental. In addition to providing clear guidance on grammar, the mechanics of writing, and APA style, the Publication Manual offers an authoritative and easy-to-use reference and citation system and comprehensive coverage of the treatment of numbers, metrication, statistical and mathematical data, tables, and figures for use in writing, reports, or presentations. Read more
The Writer’s Conference Guide is designed to helps writers reap the benefits from the time and money invested in a writer's conference in order to obtain optimal results. The strategies laid out are taken from our collective experience as authors, presenters, keynote speakers and publishers. Our goal is to help every writer, published and unpublished, make their conference experiences the best they can be and achieve their career goals.
A writer's conference is a large investment in time and money so it’s certainly worth spending a little of that time and money beforehand to maximize your investment. We cover strategies for:
• How to find and pick the best conferences to meet your needs.
• Tips on how to efficiently plan for the conference.
• How to select the workshops that will benefit you the most.
• How to socialize and mingle with those who can help your career.
• Pitching techniques and tactics so you’ll be prepared for the opportunity to discuss your book.
• Finally, we go over an After Action Review and Follow-up so every conference you attend is a great success.
Checklists are included along with practical tips that will make your conference experience a valuable success.
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Curious what a certain term means in a book contract? Not sure what the difference is between an easy reader and a picture book? Can’t tell a Newbery from a Nebula?
Pub Speak: A Writer’s Dictionary of Publishing Terms is a dictionary for both new and established authors that contains over 400 definitions, including:
- contract and royalty terms
- ebooks and audiobooks
- fiction and non-fiction
- publishing terms
- retailers, book clubs, wholesalers and distributors
- social networking and collaborative publishing
- trade associations, events and publications
- writer’s organizations, awards and publications
A small but powerful book, writers can read the dictionary all the way through to gain a more thorough understanding of the industry, or use the dictionary to look up terms as needed. The book is not designed to replace an agent or editor, but to help authors become informed partners in the business of publishing. Read more
I emptied my brain and computer into this eBook of all the current information on eBook Publishing and it has literally 1000 links. Sections are on my blog at alchemyofscrawl.blogspot.com and I would love comments, questions, ideas, debate. I have been reviewing Indie Authors and enjoyed so many great stories. I hope this information is useful and helps you sell a ton of eBooks!
What is in this eBook?
Writing Resources
A Good Book Cover
A Catchy Book Description
Blogging
Some basic tips when setting up your blog:
Overall -
Posts -
Graphics -
Main menu bar -
Header -
Footer -
Widget Side-bars -
Subscribers Interaction -
Facebook -
Twitter -
Where are my readers?
Google Alerts
Twitter
Facebook
AddThis
Bleetbox
BlogTalkRadio
foursquare
Blinklist
Reddit
StumbleUpon
Manage/create an email list
audiobooks/book trailers/vodbooks/podcasts
Formatting Your eBook
ePub
Ultimate DIYer = HTML
Uploading Your eBook
Book Reviews and Promotion
These are my top favorite places to post my stories for free:
You can and should also pursue e-zines and anthologies
There are on-line writing forums.
Specific eBook forums:
Book reviews/Interviews -
How to do a book blog tour:
Places to pay for help with promotional tours:
Book Marketing tips and information
Press Releases
Paid advertising (which includes a couple of PR links above)
Book/eBook distributors
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All about writing and being a writer
Kindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you're not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle give you full text content and images, and are updated wirelessly throughout the day. Read more
Successfully starting and finishing a publishable novel is often like fighting a series of battles - against the page, against one's own self-doubt, against rebellious characters, etc. Featuring timeless, innovative, and concise writing strategies and focused exercises, this book is the ultimate battle plan and more - it's Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" for novelists. Tactics and exercises are provided on idea generation and development, character building, plotting, drafting, querying and submitting, dealing with rejection, coping with envy and unrealistic expectations, and much more. Read more
