One of best-known methods for writing a book that reaches your ideal audience is to imagine you are writing for one person who represents the audience you want to meet.
Book proposals serve a valuable purpose for authors, agents, and acquisitions editors at publishing houses. The author prepares a detailed summary of the book’s essence, provides a chapter outline and usually one to three sample chapters, describes his or her platform, i.e. authority, reputation, social media presence and other elements, and summarizes his or her marketing plan. Authors often submit a book proposal to agents or editors prior to writing or completion of the book.
Predators take advantage of would-be authors with false promises of publishing and big profits. Because scammers are always getting exposed, they constantly devise new methods to deceive. You need to know about these new theft attempts.
You want that reader to feel that you’ve been through what they are experiencing, that you’ve made mistakes, and that you will no doubt continue to make mistakes. You want them to feel that you’re on their side and that you’ve written this book to help them through their rough spots. If you succeed in doing that, you’ll be speaking to them with your voice—loud and clear.
You think your book manuscript is wonderful—or you think it’s awful. Wherever you fall on the spectrum of confidence in what you’ve written, you need feedback.
Some self-published authors want to do everything, including design. If you’re among them, you need to know as much as you can about this vital area. If you’ve decided to turn design over to a professional, know enough to evaluate the designer’s choices.
The most constructive thing you can do if you fall into a negative groove about writing your book is to stop. Instead of pushing through in a joyless way, think about what you can learn from a mistake or a damaging critique.
You could hardly find a better time to write a book. On every level, 2020 shook the world out of its familiar patterns of operation. Nowhere is this truer than in the area of how we do business.
