The Perfect Solution For Publishing Your Creative Writing Output

It has never been easy to have your creative writing output accepted by traditional publishing houses.

Witness these famous masters of fiction who were all obliged to take the route of shelling out hard cash to have their debut novels printed.

Alexandre Dumas
D.H. Lawrence
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Rice Burroughs
George Bernard Shaw
Gertrude Stein
James Joyce
John Grisham
Mark Twain
Mary Baker Eddy
Rudyard Kipling
Stephen Crane
Upton Sinclair
Virginia Woolf
Walt Whitman
William Blake
Zane Grey

John Grisham, incidentally, sold copies of his first novel A Time to Kill out of the boot of a car which at the outset was his sole 'vehicle' for distribution…

And it is getting tougher all the time – even for established authors.

It can be doubly frustrating when you’ve written something that you are desperate to see in print; something you want other people to read.

There is always recourse to the cut-throat vanity publishing houses of course but I wouldn’t take that route come what may.

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I have a string of traditionally published titles currently in circulation but I have an equal string that I have never been able to get into print.

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In a nutshell: Instead of requiring an initial order of 10 or 100 books, they send you the first copy of your book free and then print-on-demand and ship when they receive an order from you or your customer.

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The Other Major Gateway into the Search Engines

We reviewed the power of press releases yesterday; now let’s focus on the other major free gateway into obtaining high placements in the search engines: articles.

Posting free articles to the major article repository sites is the fastest and easiest way to make more sales, increase your Google ranking, and push your Alexa rating through the roof.

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Taking the Backdoor into Search Engine Placements

There is a backdoor into high rankings in the search engines that’s been around forever but is only now achieving the recognition it deserves.

Online press releases are not the exclusive province of big business; you can use them to astonishing effect even if (as I do) you operate your online marketing from a work station at the window of a living room facing the village green.

Press releases offer a level playing field so take advantage of it and raise your game to new heights. I have hundreds of releases on all sorts of subject matter currently circulating in cyberspace – and so too can you.

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I Happened Upon A Book That Shattered My Illusions

Back in 2000 I wrote a book “Starting an Internet Business at Home” which was published in hard copy format by Kogan Page (ISBN 0749434848).

It is out of print now but in its day it was considered hot stuff and sold over 20,000 copies in bookstores world wide.

At the time I though I knew all there was to know about online marketing but a few days ago I happened across a book by another author that shattered my illusions and exposed how little I really know.

It reveals the astonishing story of how the writer took a single idea and turned it into $37,641.85 in just 24 days.

Moreover, he demonstrates step by step exactly how he did it.

So what did I learn that I didn’t know before?

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- How to develop products in obscure but highly popular niche areas

- How to create them seamlessly and inexpensively

- An ingenious and incredibly simple strategy for attracting JV partners

- How to use other people’s websites to jack up overall sales

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Why It Pays To Listen Even When You Think They’re Nuts

My first published work became a bestseller as soon as it hit the bookshelves back in 1995 and it has been topping the lists ever since.

Lucky you, some might say.

By and large the content has remained unchanged (apart from essential updating) and although ten years is a fair old run, what goes up must eventually come down.

So with that in mind I approached my publishing house with a suggestion for a commemorative 10th anniversary edition; new chapters, new cover, new cosmetics, new typesetting.

They loved the idea but balked at producing a new edition per se.

“Why?” I said, “It will start the ball rolling all over again.”

“No it won’t,” they said, “It will kill the golden goose.”

And so instead the publisher opted for a reprint dressed up as a new edition: new imprint, new chapters; new cosmetics, new typesetting – but no new cover; only a subtle color change to preserve continuity.

I thought they were nuts but they were right of course; stop supplying bookstores with a bestseller for five months and you risk consigning it to oblivion for evermore. And a block on supply there must be to allow the trade to dispose of existing stock.

That’s the price you pay with every new edition.

My author copies duly arrived and I was well pleased with the new production and contacted the publishing house to express my satisfaction, intimating only mild concern over the lack of a new cover design.

“Oh, there will be a new cover,” they said. “We’ll incorporate that on the next reprint of the reprint – now that the link has been maintained”.

My idea was good but I hadn’t thought it through.

The publisher house did.

The 4th edition of “Starting Your Own Business” (How To Books ISBN 1845280709) hit the bookstores worldwide mid-April 2005 – and the reprint complete with brand new cover is due out in August 2006.

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Making Money Online When The Prospect Names His Own Price

I’m a plain man when it comes to making money online; I just do what I do and try to make an honest buck wherever I can without upsetting anyone.

Now and again though fate steps in and sends you a prospect where you have to figure out for yourself where he or she is coming from and where in fact they think they’re heading.

I got one such prospect a few weeks ago in the shape of Rocco, a gentle giant from Brooklyn.

How do I know Rocco is a giant?

He emailed a picture of himself towering over his significant other and some friends.

How do I know he’s gentle?

Read on…

Rocco emailed me expressing interest in three of my products but he didn’t want them in digital format (which would have cost him $107 in total) he wanted hard copy.

I suggested CD formatting.

He got back to me saying, ‘No, I don’t want CDs, I want hard copy. I’ll pay a grand’

So now I thought, loony tunes, but I emailed Rocco back intimating that if he deposited $200 in my PayPal account I’d give him what he wanted; hard copy on all three products

I reckoned I would hear no more but the following morning on checking my PayPal account I discovered to my astonishment that one thousand dollars had been deposited.

I can’t take this man’s money I protested and I told him so.

Rocco got back to me within the hour.

His message read, “I said a grand, I meant a grand, so take a grand”.

So I took Rocco’s grand.

Wouldn’t you?

I mean who wants to be emailed to death…

The moral:

Never assume you know better than prospects – or what they are prepared to pay – and why. Maybe Rocco has a sight problem beyond my ken or maybe he finds it difficult to read from a computer screen. I will never know for sure but this I do know. Rocco is delighted with the hard copy he craved.

He told me so… in yet another email.

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The Day I Shook Hands with Betty Grable

There’s a line in a famous 1970s pop song composed and recorded by Neil Sedaka that goes something like, ‘I never met you Betty Grable…’

Well, unlike Neil Sedaka, I did, several times over, and on the first occasion I got to shake hands with the 1940s icon which was an enormous thrill for a long time fan.

So, what’s shaking hands with Betty Grable got to do with writing?

Just this: I got to thinking about that momentous first meeting the other evening and it galvanized my brain into sketching out an outline for a new book, something I should have done years ago; something that’s been languishing in my subconscious for eons.

You see, I met many famous people when I travelled the world as a publicist from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. Apart from the delightful Betty G there were chance encounters with Rory Calhoun (Betty’s partner at the time), Frank Sinatra, George Raft, Stan Kenton, Dolores Del Rio, Fess Parker (Davy Crockett), Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, Mike Sarne, and dozens more.

Oh yeah, (can I hear you say?) anyone could make a claim like that.

That’s true, anyone could, but could they also provide photographic evidence of each and every meeting; like pictures of the luminaries and me together?

That is the essential difference; I can…

So, considering that the majority of these famous people are now either dead or forgotten, will I get my book published by a traditional house?

Yes, I will.

Will it make me a lot of money?

No.

What it will do though is provide me with a sense of fulfilment and at the same time knock out sales of a few thousand copies in the nostalgia niche.

The secret lies in stringing together a chain of offbeat events with a similar pattern - and it occurs in everyone’s life.

Could you come up with such a pattern from your own lifetime experiences?

Think about it – there could be a book in it.

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The Book That Opened My Eyes To Making Money

In the days leading up to Christmas 2005 I finished reading a remarkable (yet unheralded) little book that opened my eyes to what making money is really all about.

And its content is not what you might think.

It contains no highfalutin strategies, no mesmerizing theory, no razzmatazz; just plain common sense in small but effective doses.

I picked up the tome out of interest, not specifically to learn how to make money, but I must confess that even this early its innate wisdom is starting to take root in my mind and I find myself being directed to develop additional streams of incremental income from what I already do to make money.

What this little book did for me was to ask questions that forced me to think outside the box and challenge limiting beliefs; replacing them with new, empowering thought patterns that will help me chase prosperity in directions with which I am already familiar.

The book captivated me from the very start because is it practical, inspiring and motivating.

It makes me realize that making money is not such a hard job at all and it demonstrates that no matter what you are doing or where you are, you can always find ways to make money.

In essence, this little book focuses on developing the correct mindset regarding money.

Okay, so there is no earth-shattering revelation in that premise because we all know that successful wealthy people are those who have a strong wealth psychology to attract more money in their life.

However, go about matters in the wrong way and all you manage to achieve is shooting yourself in the foot and sabotaging your dreams.

I’m glad I found this little book, I’m glad I read it, and now I intend to pursue the insights it has provided me on the prospects of enhancing my financial standing.

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The Timeless Secret to Creating Bestselling Niche Non-Fiction

It is quite an achievement when a niche non-fiction book remains consistently at the top of the bestseller lists for a period spanning six months; an achievement that is all the more difficult to fathom when you consider that the subject matter has nothing to do with sex, drugs, rock and roll or the like; subject matter that might even be regarded as mundane in the extreme.

What is the secret?

1. What drives a book with a commonplace topic to the top of the lists and keeps it there for months on end?

2. What causes it to attract mass appeal within its prescribed niche?

It must be best of its kind but even that is not enough to create a No. 1 bestseller that stays the course.

You need more, much more, and it comes in the shape of a timeless but little-known secret of which 99.9 percent of writers are completely unaware.

Only a handful of established authors use it, either consciously or subconsciously.

And yet this timeless secret is freely available to every writer, every would-be published author, if only they knew how to access it.

It is simplicity personified, it is perceived wisdom handed down through the ages to a fortunate few; it is the concealed catalyst that creates bestsellers.

Let me give you an example of its incredible power…

The book to which I specifically refer in the opening paragraph is one of my own, a book that clearly identifies with a traditional, rapidly growing global mass market – but a market that is already on the brink of saturation.

“Your Retirement Masterplan” (How To Books ISBN 1857039874) was first published in October 2004, reached the No.1 spot out of 3326 competitive titles on Amazon.co.uk within days, dipped in time to No.3, then hovered in the top ten for the next six months.

Thereafter it reclaimed the No.1 spot and has retained it consistently ever since.

This incredible staying power persuaded the published to forge ahead on a 2nd upgraded, cosmetically enhanced edition which will hit bookstores world wide in February 2006.

That will sustain the momentum but only temporarily because it will be broken when my latest book “How To Earn Money In Retirement” (How To Books ISBN 1845281128) is released in April 2006 and knocks its predecessor off the No.1 spot for the keyword ‘retirement’ on Amazon.co.uk.

I tell you this not to impress but to provide positive proof of the remarkable influence of the little-known secret that creates bestselling books; an influence that spills over from topping bestselling lists online to generating massive sales offline in bookstores all over the world.

Have you guessed what the secret is?

I doubt you have guessed right but when you do discover it you will know what you must do FIRST to create a guaranteed bestseller BEFORE you write a single word…

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The Book That Opened My Eyes To Making Money

In the days leading up to Christmas 2005 I finished reading a remarkable (yet unheralded) little book that opened my eyes to what making money is really all about.

And its content is not what you might think.

It contains no highfalutin strategies, no mesmerizing theory, no razzmatazz; just plain common sense in small but effective doses.

I picked up the tome out of interest, not specifically to learn how to make money, but I must confess that even this early its innate wisdom is starting to take root in my mind and I find myself being directed to develop additional streams of incremental income from what I already do to make money.

What this little book did for me was to ask questions that forced me to think outside the box and challenge limiting beliefs; replacing them with new, empowering thought patterns that will help me chase prosperity in directions with which I am already familiar.

The book captivated me from the very start because is it practical, inspiring and motivating.

It makes me realize that making money is not such a hard job at all and it demonstrates that no matter what you are doing or where you are, you can always find ways to make money.

In essence, this little book focuses on developing the correct mindset regarding money.

Okay, so there is no earth-shattering revelation in that premise because we all know that successful wealthy people are those who have a strong wealth psychology to attract more money in their life.

However, go about matters in the wrong way and all you manage to achieve is shooting yourself in the foot and sabotaging your dreams.

I’m glad I found this little book, I’m glad I read it, and now I intend to pursue the insights it has provided me on the prospects of enhancing my financial standing.

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How to Talk Your Way Out of Trouble at a Major Book Signing Event

What do you do at a major book signing event when you are confronted with a nervous client, an inflamed public relations consultancy – and 500 copies of some other author’s book instead of your own?

You may have read my recent post on how I received an invitation out of the blue to address a targeted audience of 500 newly-retired couples and engage thereafter in a book signing ceremony.

It sounds too good to be true and it almost turned out that way.

I arrived at the venue to be informed that my books had failed to show.

Oh, 500 hundred copies of a book had arrived okay, but not my book “Your Retirement Masterplan” (How To Books ISBN 1857039874).

Someone at the distribution warehouse had highlighted the wrong ISBN, clicked the mouse button, and provided their dispatch department with erroneous delivery details.

So what do you do when you are confronted with a nervous client, an inflamed public relations consultancy – and 500 copies of some other author’s book?

I recalled the gist of a chapter in my own tutorial http://1st-creative-writing-course.com which held me in good stead as I proceeded to…

- Assuage the client and their PR representatives and assure them that events would pan out satisfactorily;

- Request permission to re-jig the program and tag a 30-minute Q & A session onto the end of my talk;

- Telephone the warehouse and demand they courier PDQ 500 hundred copies of the correct book (fortuitously, the warehouse was only 25 miles away from the venue).

As it happens, the Q&A session went down a bundle with the audience and lasted for almost 60 minutes which was just as well because that’s when the copies of my book arrived.

Hardly a JIT delivery but welcome nonetheless.

What goes around come around and all in all I was pleased with the day’s work - and I got what I set out to achieve.

1. I had earned 10 percent in royalties from the bulk book purchase

2. I got to sign 500 copies individually for the attendees

3. I got the opportunity to pass around my business cards

4. I got to address the retirees in a 20-minute talk on the third age adventure with the added bonus of a 1 hour Q&A session.

5. I got the opportunity to promote my next book “How to Earn Money in Retirement” (due for publication in April 2006 by How To Books ISBN 1845281128)

6. I got 500 potential new customers for all my future books

7. I got an all-expenses paid trip to the venue

8. I got a substantial appearance fee

9. I got exposure from local television covering the event

Best of all to come out of the potential crisis was the fact that I won the trust of both the client and the consultancy and ended up with an invitation to repeat the exercise (minus the wrong books factor) on four separate occasions during 2006.

What helped me talk my way out of trouble at this major book signing event is the fact that I spent the bulk of my working life at the sharp end of marketing and I had seen it all before – and worse.

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My New Book Was Inspired By a Master Metaphysician

You are probably already aware of Vernon Howard, master metaphysician and master wordsmith; you may even have read some of his books.

The collected works of this great man have been a constant source of motivation for me personally over the past 40 years, and he is the inspiration for my new book “Maximizing Mind Power to Enrich Retirement” (not due for publication until 2007 because I have two in the queue before it…)

From 1965 until his death in 1992 Vernon Howard wrote many books and conducted classes which reflect a degree of skill and understanding that may be unsurpassed in modern history. The American journal Human Behavior Magazine said of him, “Vernon is probably the clearest writer on these subjects in the English language.”

His warmth and refreshing sense of humor made him a delightful subject for interviews, talk shows and articles.

In 1983 Michael Benner of station KLOS in Los Angeles, California said, “Vernon Howard is one of the most powerful speakers I have ever interviewed; he has an uncanny ability to cut through the fluff and puff and jolt people into seeing who they really are. At times humorous and gentle, at other times demanding and forceful. Vernon Howard holds the record for generating responses to our KLOS talk shows. Not everyone likes his message but I can’t imagine anyone turning him off.”

Today more than 7 million readers worldwide enjoy his exceptionally clear and inspiring presentations of the great truths of the ages. Libraries, bookstores, health food stores and church bookshops all over the world sell Vernon Howard books, booklets, cassette tapes and videotapes. His material is widely used by doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, clergymen, counselors, educators and people from all walks of life.

Incredibly, the only topic Vernon Howard ever wrote about was the higher self and the way out of the human problem he discovered was an in-depth appreciation of the vital difference between the two selves of the psyche.

For 25 years before engaging in public instruction Vernon studied every published work on every know mystic, immersed himself in the teachings of every known religion and persuasion, and eventually arrived at a single conviction: without exception they all focused on the higher self and how to access it.

The moral for aspiring authors…

Find yourself a mentor from ages past; a master wordsmith to guide and inspire you, to lift your writing output several stanzas above the norm.

Jim Green is an online entrepreneur and established author with an ever-growing string of niche bestselling titles to his credit. He broadcasts and lectures on the subject of niche non-fiction and you can find details of his famous creative writing course at this website
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How My First Published Work Almost Hit the Dump Truck

My first published work (and coincidentally my first bestseller) came about by way of accident.

What do I mean by that?

Just this… I didn’t set out to write a book

I was sitting at home one evening in December 1993 completing a review of the meticulous notes I had compiled in the lead up to launching a new business.

As I closed the ring binder and prepared to consign my accumulated data to the dump truck I stopped in my tracks.

Hey, I thought, there’s book in here somewhere, there’s an extra income opportunity, there’s an opening to make money from writing, there’s a way to create a residual income stream, and what’s more, I can earn all of this extra income at home.

Busy though I was in the early days of my new enterprise I set about my extra income idea by drawing up a plan of action to transcribe the recorded research into a how-to or self-help manual for the benefit of others about to embark upon what I had just achieved.

This inspiration to earn extra income at home could only be accomplished in my spare time (what little there was of it) but because the material was in both date and chronological order I started out with a valuable edge.

How to structure the text though, how to convert my expertise into a meaningful volume, how to develop its presentation into a format that would appeal to the publishing industry, how in fact to locate a publisher: these were some of my dilemmas in my plan to earn extra income at home.

Five months later I put the finishing touches to my first draft and sent copies off to four niche publishing houses (something I’ve never done since nor would ever do again because it’s bad form) and to my astonishment received two offers of intent of interest to pursue the project.

I appeared to have hit the jackpot and I wondered why

It didn’t take me long to figure that out. Happily, my text coincided with the emergence in the early 1990s of world wide government initiatives to stimulate indigenous economic growth by encouraging start-ups in the area of small to medium size business enterprises.

I decided to opt for one of these offers of publication which proved fortuitous because I was immediately teamed up with a highly experienced commissioning editor who taught me how to craft my raw text into what had been concerning me all along: the production of a meaningful volume.

“Starting Your Own Business” was published in October 1995, sold out of its first edition in December of that year, and was reprinted in January 1996.

It has gone from strength to strength ever since and disposals continue to rise year-on-year justifying my plan to earn extra income at home.

As I write this piece in November, 2005, “Starting Your Own Business” (now in its 4th edition and heading for its 5th) Ranks at No.10 out of 872 competitive titles on Amazon.co.uk…

I tell you all of this not to impress but to let you in on the secret of how my tutorial “Secrets to Churning Out Bestsellers” came into being.

Subsequent success in writing for profit in my spare time prompted me to delve deeply into the reasons why my work always seems to be on target.

It couldn’t all be down to luck. Sure, serendipity stepped in at the outset but there had to be more to it than that.

I began to evaluate what I was doing right, where I was going wrong on occasion, what I thought I knew and what I had still to learn from my peers.

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Where to Look for Your Next Writing Project When You're Stuck for Ideas

When my first book “Starting Your Own Business” was published way back in 1995, I thought that was it. I reckoned I’d never write another one.

But I was wrong

This book has enjoyed many reprints, multiple editions, and proceeded over the years to generate another seven disparate titles from the same topic.

Two years ago I completed the first draft manuscript for a commemorative 4th edition marking a decade in print.

It was accepted by the publisher and hit wide bookshelves in the autumn of 2005.

With updated content and several topical new chapters added, the ball
started rolling all over again and in the process attracted a new breed of readers.

With that project out of the way, I was stumped where to look for the next.

I dug deep within myself and asked what else do I know about?

I know how to start, manage and expand small businesses; I know about advising anyone on how to run an internet business from home, shop or office;
I know how to instruct others on the subject of writing for profit, but what else do I know?

Then it dawned on me…

I also know how to enjoy a rewarding and fulfilling retirement.

And so I embarked on my new task, researched the topic, completed the text, submitted a proposal, and as a result “Your Retirement Masterplan” (ISBN 1857039874) was published in October 2004, became an instant bestseller, and one year on is still ranking at No.2 out of 3356 competitive titles on Amazon.co.uk.

But I didn’t let the matter rest there

I set about drafting a fresh proposal for a sequel “How to Earn Money in Retirement”.

It too was accepted for publication in April 2006 by How To Books (ISBN 1845281128).

And so it goes on…

Ongoing success in having my proposals accepted prompted me to pursue another topic that has been close to my heart for many years: mindpower.

The problem was I could never find a proven niche into which I could fit it with a reasonable chance of publication – but now I had discovered the perfect fit.

My proposal for “Maximizing Mindpower to Enrich Your Retirement” has just been accepted by the same publisher and will be available online and offline during the second quarter of 2007.

The moral is persistence…

Dig deep within yourself. You know much more than you think you know.

If you have been struggling to break into authorship, take heart…

Persist and you will succeed.

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Marketing Your Books Can Be Fun And Profit Making

Marketing your writing output can be fun, exciting, creative and profitable.

It can also prove very frustrating and expensive if you do not know how to evaluate cost effective methods of viral marketing - offline and online.

Over the years people have come to know me for my ability to develop low cost and no cost strategies for marketing and promoting a business, product or service; strategies that have realized handsome returns over the years.

Here is a recent example of what I mean…

Just as I was checking the proofs for my next book “How to Earn Money in Retirement”
I received a telephone call from a leading London PR consultancy inviting me to address 500 newly-retired couples at a seminar to be held in Essex, England, on Thursday 24 November; all potential customers of their client the world wide builder Bryant Homes.

The invitation came my way because the first book in this series “Your Retirement Masterplan” is a runaway bestseller (No.2 on Amazon.com out of 3157 competitive titles) and also because one of the partners in the consultancy chanced to hear me speak in a recent BBC radio interview.

So what do I get out of this unique marketing opportunity?

The client buys 500 copies of “Your Retirement Masterplan”

I earn 10 percent in royalties from this bulk book purchase

I get to sign 500 copies individually

I get the opportunity to pass around my business cards

I get to address the retirees in a 20-minute talk on the third age adventure

I get the opportunity to promote my next book

I get 500 potential new customers for my future books

I get an all-expenses paid trip to the venue

I get a substantial appearance fee

I get exposure from local television covering the seminar

This is the quintessence of viral marketing and not only does it cost me nothing, I also make a profit out of the deal.

Put on your thinking cap and come up with examples of similar ways you could market your produce for free and make money at the same time.

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Jim Green is an online entrepreneur and established author with an ever-growing string of niche bestselling non-fiction titles to his credit.
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