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    Writing Your Book: Cashing in on publishing faster, easier, and cheaper
    Writing Your Book: Cashing in on publishing faster, easier, and cheaper
    Writing Your Book: Cashing in on publishing faster, easier, and cheaper
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    Writing Your Book: Cashing in on publishing faster, easier, and cheaper

    By Dan Poynter

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    Write Today—Earn Tomorrow

    New equipment and new techniques make writing a book faster, easier and cheaper.

    You will discover:
    • What fiction and nonfiction subjects are in demand.
    • How large is your potential reading market
    • Where to find the information for your book
    • How and where to sell your book online

    This book provides the shortcut to becoming a published author.

    “Dan Poynter is the top coach for writing, publishing and, most important, promoting.”
    —John Tullius, Director,
    Maui Writers Conference.

    “One essential ingredient to our Chicken Soup success was consulting with Dan Poynter in the early stages.”
    —Jack Canfield, co-author,
    Chicken Soup for the Soul series

    “Dan Poynter has generously guided thousands to authorship. Their books make this a better world.”
    —Dr. Robert Müller,
    Past Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations

    Dan Poynter is the author of more than 120 books. His seminars have been featured on CNN, his books have been pictured in The Wall Street Journal, and his story has been told in The New York Times. He is the leading authority on how to write, publish, and promote books.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDan Poynter
    Release dateOct 11, 2012
    ISBN9781568601540
    Writing Your Book: Cashing in on publishing faster, easier, and cheaper
    Author

    Dan Poynter

    Dan Poynter is a pioneer in book writing, producing and promoting. His New Book Model or “Simultaneous Publishing” is revolutionizing the book industry and information dissemination. He is a frequent speaker, successful publisher and renowned book publishing consultant, who has a unique, pioneering approach to marketing books—which he so generously shares. Since 1969, Dan Poynter has written and published more than 100 books including Writing Nonfiction, The Self-Publishing Manual, The Skydiver's Handbook and The Expert Witness Handbook. He has also created more than 50 reports, nine audio CDs, four video programs, a dozen eBooks and more than 500 magazine articles. He is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP). Dan is an author and he is a publisher who has experienced every phase of the book publishing process. He has sold his manuscripts to other publishers, he has published other authors, he has published his own books and his books have been translated and published in seven other countries. Dan does not just work in the book publishing business, he studies the book publishing business. He doesn't just talk about book promotion, he teaches book promotion. He is an evangelist for books, an ombudsman for authors, an advocate for publishers and the godfather to thousands of successfully-published books. Dan Poynter's seminars have been featured on CNN, his books have been pictured in The Wall Street Journal, and his story has been told in U.S. News & World Report. The media comes to Dan because he is the leading authority on book publishing. A well-known aviation speaker, Dan is a licensed pilot, a skydiver with all the ratings and a Master Parachute Rigger. He has served as vice-president of the Publishers Marketing Association as well as president of the Parachute Industry Association, chairman of the board of the US Parachute Association and president of the international hang gliding commis¬sion. Often described as “Mr. Publishing,” Dan Poynter shows publishers how to sell more books using some surprisingly simple marketing concepts. No one gives away more help, advice and expertise than Dan Poynter. He is a caring, sharing publisher who is dedicated to putting more than just something back into the system. Dan shows people how to make a difference while making a living by coaching them on the writing, publishing and promoting of their book. He has turned thousands of people into successful authors. His mission is to see that people do not die with a book still inside them. Book Writing-Publishing SizzleReel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWl0fnBu7bs Full CV http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Poynter Aviation career in Pictures. http://www.slideshare.net/Dan_Poynter/dan-poynterparachutes-skydiving-aviation

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      Writing Your Book - Dan Poynter

      WRITING YOUR BOOK

      Cashing in on publishing faster, easier, and cheaper

      by

      Dan Poynter

      Smashwords Edition

      * * * * *

      Published on Smashwords by:

      PARA PUBLISHING

      PO Box 8206

      Santa Barbara, CA 93118-8206

      U.S.A.

      info@ParaPublishing.com

      ParaPublishing.com

      Telephone: (805) 968-7277

      Writing Your Book

      First Edition Copyright © 2012 by Dan Poynter

      ISBN: 978-1-56860-154-0 (eBook)

      Unattributed quotations are by Dan Poynter

      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal use only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author’s work.

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      Table of Contents

      About the Author

      Foreword

      Acknowledgments

      A Word from the Author

      Warning/Disclaimer

      Chapter 1. Researching Your Topic and Audience

      Chapter 2. Writing Your Book

      Chapter 3. Getting Feedback on Your Manuscript

      Chapter 4. Copyright: Yours and Theirs

      Chapter 5. Collaboration: Ghosts and Editors

      Chapter 6. Packaging Your Book

      Chapter 7. Publishing Your Book

      Chapter 8. Ebook Converting and Posting

      Afterword

      Appendix: Resources

      Glossary

      About the Author

      Dan Poynter has written more than 120 books and revisions, some of which have been translated into Spanish, Japanese, British-English, Russian, and German. He has sold his books to publishers, published other authors, and has self-published. He is unique as he has experienced all three ways to break into print.

      A consultant to the book industry, the Publishers Marketing Association presented him with the Benjamin Franklin Award for Lifetime Achievement. Dan is a past vice president of the IBPA/PMA.

      Dan is a frequent speaker (a Certified Speaking Professional) at writers’ conferences and many other industry events.

      He runs his own publishing company, Para Publishing, in Santa Barbara.

      Foreword

      The book writing and publishing industries are in a state of accelerating evolutionary change. Publishing companies are growing and consolidating; emerging technologies are transporting information at the speed of light; the reservoir of text is growing ever larger; and the thirst for information is enormous.

      The need

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