5 Steps of the Book Publishing Process Explained
This post contains a video where veteran book publishing and marketing expert Ella Ritchie explains how to publish a book for non-fiction authors who wish to self-publish.
Writing
Six Ways to Make Your Writing More Effective – Part III
Passive vs. Active Voice If you doubt your writing skills, OR you want to write more effectively, these tips are essential. “As I walked silently down the street, I was being followed by two men. The sounds being made by them were disturbing. One was breathing noisily as he walked along with a slouching gait, …
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Six Ways to Make Your Writing More Effective – Part II
Connect and Transition If you doubt your writing skills, OR you want more effective writing skills, these tips are essential. For one of my classes in high school, I wrote a paper about lions. I loved lions and had read about them for years. So, when we did peer editing in class, the feedback I …
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Six Ways to Make Your Writing More Effective – Part I
Organization If you doubt your skills for writing OR want more effective writing skills, these tips are essential. ChatGPT. For people who don’t want to write or don’t have time to write, that may be an easy solution. Yet, writing is an art, a craft, and a skill that exercises the brain. That’s why some …
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Should I Hire a Ghostwriter? Four Benefits You’ll Get Plus Two Misconceptions
What is it like to work with a ghostwriter? Many people, when they find out what I do, are fascinated. “How does that work?” is a question I get a lot. To explain, let me give you a quick example: a couple of years ago, a solopreneur hired me to write eight blog posts on …
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Want to Gain Your Readers’ Trust? Don’t Leave Out This Crucial Step!
Writers – or anyone communicating to grow and maintain an audience – need to build trust with their readers. One of the best ways to do so is by figuring out what objections readers might have to the writer’s message, and then making sure to answer those objections in the course of your writing.
Should You Blog? Six Ironclad Arguments for Doing So to Keep Your Biz—and YOU—Fresh: Part II
This post is part of a series I started in December. The first post covered the first three reasons to blog. This post covers three more reasons. Aren’t blogs so . . . 2010? That’s the question I posed a month and a half ago. What’s the answer? First, a review: as I explained in …
Want to Be an Author? Three Reasons You Need Storytelling Skills (Even for an Informational Book)
Storytelling is important to us humans. You could argue that every life is a collection of short stories and/or series of novels that tie to a longer narrative. Telling stories is how we connect to each other and make sense of the world around us. That’s why telling a good story is an important skill …
Should You Blog? Six Ironclad Arguments for Doing So to Keep Your Biz—and YOU—Fresh: Part I
This post is part of a series and will cover the first three reasons to blog. Stay tuned next month for more! Aren’t blogs so . . . 2010? Not really. The buzz on the street is that, while the type of blog that started this particular medium is fading from popularity, most people who …
Should You Judge a Book’s Cover? Yes—It’s of Make-or-Break Importance!
Yvonne Parks, Cover Designer for Rich Dad Poor Dad, Discusses Her Passion “Yvonne’s incredible. While you’re still on the phone with her talking about ideas for the book, she’ll be drawing up 3-4 ideas and emailing them over.” That’s the glowing reference I heard recently from an acquisitions editor in my network. In person—well, virtually …
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