Is There A Book Inside You?
$17.95 USD
Writing Alone or With A Collaborator
I’m sure that at some stage of your life you have said ‘I’ve always wanted to write a book.’ Or if you have had a particularly interesting or challenging life, friends may have said top you ‘You should write a book.’
I believe there is a book in every one of us. The challenge is getting started. For most of us writing ended at school and the longest thing we would have ever written would have been a 2 to 3 page essay.
So if you feel you do have a book in you – then Dan Poynter has written the ‘how-to’ manual for you starting with some questions:
- Can you author a book? And…
- Why do you want to write a book?
- What kind of book do you want to write?
- Will your topic be of interest to anyone?
Great questions. If you have your answers and you are going it alone, then the book shows the basic steps:
- Preparation. Getting ready; organisation and research
- The tools of the trade
- Revise, edit, revise, edit again
If you choose to work with a co-author then you will need to know:
- How to go about finding the right person/people
- Negotiating and creating a contract with the person or persons
Because writing can become all-consuming, the authors urge you to think about how shitting yourself away for hours at a time will affect your personal life.
And finally, when the book is done – the authors help you to decide:
- To publish or
- To self-publish
So there it is. No reason now to look back and wish you had written that book.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Mindy Bingham is the author or co-author of 17 books. Choices, A Teen Woman's Guide to Self-
Awareness and Personal Planning, first published in 1983, has sold over 500,000 copies so far.
Challenges, the boys' version, was released in 1984. A teacher's guide, foreign rights and a lot of wellplaced book reviews soon followed. With more ideas than time, Mindy learned how to team up with a professional researcher/developer and a professional writer to produce her phenomenally successful books. Mindy is also the 15-year director of the Girls Club of Santa Barbara. Publishing began as a mission, turned into a fund-raiser and became a going business. Over the last ten years, these products have netted the Girls Club over a million dollars.
Dan Poynter CSP fell into publishing. He spent eight years researching a labor of love. Realizing no publisher would be interested in a technical treatise on the parachute, he went directly to a printer and “self-published.” The book sold, the orders poured in and he suddenly found he was a publisher himself.
Since 1969, he has written and published over 100 books on subjects ranging from parachuting to hang gliding to computers and publishing.
In the publishing field, he is widely known for his best-selling The Self-Publishing Manual, How To Write, Print & Sell Your Own Book.
Mindy and Dan were prompted to write this book because so many of their friends, noting their success, approached them for the secret. Now they are revealing to you the inside story on how to write a book, alone or with help so you too, can enjoy the good life of being a published author.
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