As Sir Alex Ferguson celebrates 25 years as manager of Manchester United, I feel a great sense of pride and awe. Such dedication, such commitment, over so many years. And it hits me: so few people these days have that long-term stick-to-it mentality, so few people seem willing to keep going over the long haul, […]
Perhaps you’ve thought about writing a book? Or you know someone who has written and published their book? and it’s made you think about doing the same. You even get excited about the idea. And THEN you have some or ALL of these thoughts: – I have so many ideas but where do I start?
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Today is World Book Day and I want to urge you to use the event as an opportunity to celebrate those books which have most influenced you. Let’s consider all books, rather than relying on publishers with big budgets deciding which books should gain all the glory. World Book Day is a time to celebrate
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It’s not often you get to give birth to 3 babies in a week. Even when those ‘babies’ are books! Although we help hundreds of people each year, three in one week warrants a bit of a celebration. So please help me welcome to the world some really fabulous titles that will all make a
What a couple of months we’ve just had! If you have followed any of our news, you probably know about some of the exciting things we have been doing in December and January. Still, it gives me great pleasure to summarize what has been the best two months ever at our little company. I hope
How to Write and Publish A Successful Book! Next Thursday, November 9th at 12 noon Mountain Time (7pm UK time), I am going to be a guest presenter for Lisa Peck, the Step It Up Queen! Many of Lisa’s newsletter readers have asked her about how to write a book and get published. They also
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It is great to see that a major partnership/cooperative publishing company like Xlibris has recognized the benefits of helping people to create great books faster. Wrongly categorized as ‘self-publishing’, companies such as Xlibris actually can add a lot of value for aspiring authors. These companies don’t leave the author to sort the publishing out him-
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These are just my top tips, and I welcome more ideas and comments. Hopefully there is at least a kernel of an idea here which could help you sell more books.
I thought it was resolved. I thought it was a free market and that more authors now had the right to write and publish their work. I thought – wrongly, as it turns out – that people in the publishing industry were finally beginning to realize the benefits of democratic and open publishing, creating more
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