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Write a Book and Get Published Fast

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Want to write a successful book? It all starts with planning your route to publication. You can become a published author once you create a realistic plan, based on which books are selling.

Writing a book is a process which can take months or years, and unfortunately once your book’s written, you have no guarantee of publication. However, with a little foresight and understanding of how book publishing works, you can shorten the odds.

Your Publisher Wants a Book Which Sells, So Write One

Your route to publication starts with research. You must know what sells.

A tip: if you’re shocked at this crass focus on money, consider your prospective publishing house. They’re totally focused on money - they need to be, or they’ll go broke. If you understand the need to know what sells, you’re already far ahead of most writers.

Write a 25-word summary of what your book’s about, and visit a bookstore. Your aim is to discover not only who publishes books of a similar type, but also who the published authors are, and how well the books sell (this is shown by how much space is allocated to those books in the bookstore.)

Here’s an example. Let’s say you want to write a book on dog care. Dog books sell well, as you’ll see in the store. This is an indication that you’ve got a viable idea which will interest publishers.

Here’s an example if you’re writing fiction. You’re writing a mystery novel with a photographer as the detective. This is potentially a “cosy” mystery, and these also sell well, again it’s a viable idea.

But what if your book idea is completely unique?

This is unlikely, but if that’s the case, drop the idea. Your book needs to fit into a known type for publishers to be interested. Of course you can still write your book, and go the self-publication route, but traditional publishers want what sells.

Continue Your Research While You’re Writing Your Book

Nonfiction books are sold via a proposal, so you don’t need to complete your book before you try to sell it. On the other hand, even though your novel will attract publisher interest on the basis of a partial (three chapters and an outline) you must complete the novel to get a publishing contact.

While you’re writing, keep researching. Your publisher will want to know how you intend marketing your book, so the more you know, the more effective a marketing plan you can create.

When you know what sells, you’ll write a salable book, and you’ll get published fast - enjoy the writing, and before you know it, the next time you visit a bookstore your own book will be on the shelves.

Want to become a successful published author? Angela Booth’s writing class, “Write More And Make More Money From Your Writing: Develop A Fast, Fun Productive Writing Process” is based on lessons she developed for her private coaching students. The course trains you to become an expert writer and author.

Her ebook “Top 70 Writing Tips To Help You To Write More” shows you how to end procrastination for good and write more.

Write It Once And Sell It Forever

Get A Constant Flow Of Cash By Writing And Selling Ebooks… It’s Much, Much Easier Than You Think

Ebooks are BIG online. Most ebooks contain from five to 100 pages, and sell anywhere from $10 to $100 dollars, and over, depending on the information. Clever writers are realizing that there’s gold in ebooks, and that they’re well-placed to mine that gold…

Discover how you can self-publish online, and make a great income, writing and selling ebooks with “Write and Sell an eBook: Every Writer’s Quick-Action Guide To Writing Ebooks”..

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Ebooks: the Private Label Rights (PLR) content secret

I’ve been sharing the secret of PLR content with SYWON subscribers, many of whom are now happily selling article packages, or are under contract to supply articles to PLR-seller sites each week.

So what’s PLR and why should you care?

Short-cut your writing time and produce an ebook a week

I know many freelance writers want to get into writing and selling ebooks, because the profits can be extraordinary. But time is a factor. No matter how fast you write, an ebook takes time. Can you afford to invest a month or more in writing your own product?

If you can, that’s great.

However, if you can’t, there’s a solution. Use PLR content to kick start your own ebook.

PLR content is generic content. When you buy it, you have all rights to the content, so you can edit and modify it in any way you wish. You can delete, add, and completely rewrite the material so it’s truly your own. Then you own the copyright to the new product you’ve created using the PLR content.

PLR content is very popular with Web site owners, because it saves time. It’s much easier to modify content than write it from scratch.

Many writers who write PLR content aren’t aware they can buy PLR content and use it to create their own products - FAST.

Now you know: if you want to write an ebook in a week, kick start your writing with PLR - it’s fun, it’s easy, and it’s profitable too.

Write and sell your next ebook in just a week

Want to make money online? It’s an open secret that the way to success is creating ebooks. Ebooks sell 24×7x365: you can make money while you sleep.

If you’ve been putting off writing and selling ebooks because the whole process takes so long - how does one week sound?

Yes, you can have your first (or next) ebook selling online in a week.

Discover the Private Label Rights content secret in “PLR Profits Plan: 7 Days to Profits with Private Label Rights Content” and create your next ebook, Web site, or other information product today.

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First the blog, then the book

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Yet another blogger lands a book deal, and a very nice deal at that - $300,00.

Why Blog? Reason No. 92: Book Deal - New York Times reports:

“And then on March 20 Random House announces that it has purchased the rights to a book by the blog’s founder, Christian Lander, an Internet copy writer. The price, according to a source familiar with the deal but not authorized to discuss the total, was about $300,000, a sum that many in the publishing and blogging communities believe is an astronomical amount for a book spawned from a blog, written by a previously unpublished author.”

Over on my writing blog I just posted “Writing Blogs - Write a Blog and Triple your Income” to encourage writers to blog.

The blog, Stuff White People Like, is on WordPress.com, a free blogging platform.

Are YOU blogging? If not, why not? :-)

Blogging makes a great home business

Many bloggers blog full time in their blogging home business, and earn a great income - much more than they could earn at a job.

Discover how you can make money blogging, with Angela Booth’s blogging bestseller, Blogging for Dollars - blogging is fun, and profitable.

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