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 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. [...]