Whether you’re a pastor, evangelist, teacher or any other category of public speaker, being an author will boost your income, your performance, your audience and the effectiveness of your message. Here are six reasons why: Being a published author can make you a...
If you’ve been writing your book through the steps in this series, ‘How to Write a Book in 30 Days’, the chapters in your manuscript should be fleshed out and researched, each one of them complete in expressing its own complete sub-idea within the ‘big...
Now that you’ve got your PostIt notes or index cards arranged in a logical progression, like stepping stones leading down the path you want to take the reader, it’s time to put those ‘stepping stones into an outline. An outline is basically arranging your ‘stepping...
Is this your year? Is this the year you will become a published author? That’s what I want for you. This year (at least until we’re done) I’m going to begin at the beginning of the writer’s process and take you through to a finished book with...
I communicate with a lot of authors and soon-to-be authors each week. We talk through strategies and ideas on how best to share their work with readers, we talk about the state of the publishing industry, Christian publishing in particular, and how technology has...
Bonus Mistake #11: It’s ‘Foreword’ not ‘Forward’ You’ve read through this e-book. Congratulations! As a prize, here’s a bonus tip for you: This mistake I didn’t list in Ten Biggest Mistakes Self-Published Authors Make, but it’s a...
Mistake #10: I’m an Author! My Student Days are over! I imagine you put a lot of research into writing your book. I know I did. I spent more time reading than I did writing. At almost every turn in my writing, I had to stop, research the topic, find a fact or confirm...
Mistake #9: I’m a Star! My Fans will Come to Me! Now that you’ve finished writing your book, now that it’s published, your job as an author is over, right? Now it’s time for you to sit back and enjoy the success your book will have among the masses and the...
Mistake #8: Publishers are All Crooks! I Can Represent Myself! Which brings up my next point: yes, it can seem that publishers are all crooks. Publishers are in business, and the point of business is to make a profit. And, concerning your book, your publisher is...
