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See How Well Your Book Is Doing At Amazon

See how well your book is selling at Amazon. Actually, see how well anybody’s book is selling. Courtesy of your new addiction. [...]

Step 10. Working with the Publisher, Part 11 of 11

This is the last in my series of posts about how I got a non-fiction book published as a first-time author. If you haven’t seen the previous posts, here is where I stand in the timeline. [...]

Step 9. Creating My Online Platform, Part 10 of 11

As I awaited word from the editor at Simon & Schuster regarding my mighty tome, I decided to create what is today called an online platform, but at the time was just a web site, when blogs didn’t exist. It wasn’t something I was doing just for fun, although I did enjoy it. Creating a web site was one of things that I had said I would do in my proposal as part of my promotion and marketing plan. [...]

Step 5. Responses To My Query Letter, Part 6 of 11

From the outset, my query letter met with some amount of success. I’ll take some credit for having written a solid query, but it was also the right topic at the right time. The popularity of tattoos was soaring, many of the books that had been published about tattoos were older, and the tattoo book glut had yet to begin in earnest. [...]

Step 4. Querying Agents, Part 5 of 11

With my completed proposal for a non-fiction book and a query letter in hand, I set out to find a literary agent. I went no further than the Writer’s Market, the gargantuan doorstop of a reference book for all things writerly. It even came with a CD so that I didn’t have to keep lifting it. Today, there’s even a web site. [...]

Step 3. Writing a Query Letter, Part 4 of 11

You may have noticed in my last post about how I wrote my non-fiction book proposal that the class that I took was ten weeks long but it only took nine to write it. That’s because the last week of the class was devoted to writing a query letter. Why write a book proposal if you’re not going to actually try to get a book published? [...]

Step 2. Writing A Non-fiction Book Proposal, Part 3 of 11

Now that you have a fabulous idea for your non-fiction best seller, Step 2 is to write the proposal. It took me exactly nine weeks to write the first draft of my proposal and the reason I know that is because I took a class to do it. [...]

Step 1. A Fantabulous Idea for a Non-fiction Book, Part 2 of 11

Step 1 in getting a non-fiction book published is having an outstanding idea for a book. In fact, having many ideas is even better. I maintain a database where I file ideas, plans, and/or outlines as they occur. And while I think I’ve come up some good book ideas, they have not (yet) become books. [...]

How My Book Got Published with Simon & Schuster, Part 1 of 11

People ask me all the time how to get a non-fiction book published – not in so many words, of course. In this and the next several blog entries, I will spell out exactly what I did. [...]

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