Poynter’s Book-Writing Advice
Summary and excerpts from BOOKS: Tips, Stories, & Advice on Writing, Publishing and Promoting, by Dan Poynter, Para Publishing, Santa Barbara, CA, 2000Chapter One: On WritingTypically, four stages:...
View ArticleEight Keys to Becoming a Rich Author
Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.I heard a terrific telephone seminar by Steve Harrison, the title ofwhich was, “Seven Things That Rich Authors Do Differentlyfrom Poor Authors.” Actually, Harrison added an...
View ArticlePublishing’s Long Tail
By Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.“More nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.” That neednot describe the modern would-be book author. The publishing world has beenchanging,...
View ArticleWriting Your Memoir with a Coach
By Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.A memoir is the story of your life, as you saw it, as you understood it. It is lessformal than an autobiography or a biography. It tells the truth, not necessarily...
View ArticleCanfield: Make a Million as an Author
By Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.The Chicken Soup… series of books co-authored usually by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen are a major source of Canfield’s more than 500 million books sold. Even if...
View ArticleAuthor John Gray: Monk to “Martian” Millionaire
By Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.John Gray, author of multi-million-book best-seller Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, was interviewed by Steve Harrison of Bradley Communications, who present a...
View Article"How to Get Maximum Publicity in Minimum Time"
By Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.Steve Harrison of Bradley Communications Corporation gave a web seminar, a webinar, having this title. I listened raptly as he presented over an hour of useful...
View ArticleMarketing Your Memoir
By Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.You have written your memoir and now have to get someone to read it, better yet, get many people to buy it. That was the problem that faced me.As a memoir writer, you...
View Article"Produce, Publish, Publicize"
By Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.In her Produce, Publish, Publicize author Sabrina Sumsion crisply covers these three aspects of becoming a successful author for three different groups: the would-be...
View Article9 Mistakes Most Authors Make, Per Steve Harrison
By Douglas Winslow CooperOn January 16, 2015, I listened to a fine webinar by marketing and publicity expert Steve Harrison (@PublicityGuy on Twitter, head of Bradley Communications Corp.) on nine...
View ArticleCreate a Killer Non-fiction Book Title
By Douglas Winslow CooperKristen Eckstein has written a fine short book, a bargain on amazon.com at $0.99 for the Kindle version: AUTHOR’S QUICK GUIDE to Creating a Killer Non-fiction Book Title, one...
View Article7 Ways to Make Money From Your Book
By Douglas Winslow CooperThis is based on an excellent Amazon Kindle ebook, BOOK LAUNCH, by Chandler Bolt, subtitled “How to write, market, and self-publish your first bestseller in 3 months or less...
View Article8 Steps to a Compelling Book Introduction
By Douglas Winslow CooperThis is based on an excellent Amazon Kindle ebook, BOOK LAUNCH, by highly successful writer and publisher Chandler Bolt. The book is subtitled “How to write, market, and...
View ArticleHow to Order Your Chapters
By Douglas Winslow CooperImagine you have written nine chapters. What order shall they be put in? If you are telling a story, as fiction or a memoir, you could tell it chronologically, a principle...
View ArticleGerund or Participle: What Difference Does It Make?
By Douglas Winslow Cooper“I observed him running” or “I observed his running”…which is correct?First, he was running, and you were not. So we don’t need, “Running, I observed him.” If you are...
View ArticleWrite and Publish Your Book?
By Douglas Winslow Cooper“You ought to write a book!” Has anyone said that to you? Have you said it to yourself? I recently published Ting and I: A Memoir of Love, Courage, and Devotion through...
View ArticleFirst 10% of Write Your Book with Me:
WRITE YOUR BOOK WITH MEPayoffs = Plan x Prepare x Publish x Promote Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D. PRAISE FOR...
View ArticleWRITE YOUR BOOK WITH ME: Outline Needed
You’ll need an outline. Write down a half-dozen or so basics, then do some free-association thinking, some brainstorming. I’ll discuss later a variety of book types, but one popular form is the...
View ArticleIs Irony Dead?
IS IRONY DEAD? Ten days ago I posted on LinkedIn an excerpt from my recent opus, Write Your Book with Me, giving the excerpt the tongue-in-cheek title “Writing Your Book Is Easy.” I append the...
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How to Write a How-Too Book
HOW-TO BOOKS: STEP-BY-STEP I checked Amazon today for books in the category “how to….” 655,335 entries came up. We know these books are popular and there are lots of them, including How to Survive the...
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