Do you have a picture in your mind of what it takes to become a bestselling author? Does it include someone toiling over his manuscript for many hours per day or late into the night for years? I’d like to debunk the idea that it has to take a long time for a writer to produce a bestseller. The belief…
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Many wannabe authors have one-tracked minds. They think only about the book they want to write. If you have dreams of creating a career as a successful author and spending your days writing bestselling books, you may be focused primarily on your book idea and time at your computer cranking out manuscripts. In today’s publishing environment, however, this type of…
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You’ve written a book or plan to write a book, and you want it to succeed. You dream of it becoming a bestseller. Everyone tells you the same thing: For your book to outsell all the other titles in its category– for it to become a #1 Amazon bestseller or even a New York Times bestseller–you need a book promotion…
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I know you want to write a book…so do a lot of people. But if you are like me, you probably don’t want to write just any book. You want to write a book that becomes a bestseller. That’s a book that sells more than the average number of books. In fact, it outsells the other books in its category….
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Over and over again, I find the same mistakes prevent aspiring authors from achieving their goals of becoming successful—even bestselling—published authors. You can avoid them, however, once you know what they are. The 5 Mistakes that Stop You From Succeeding as an Author You don’t develop marketable book ideas. To become a successful author, you have to create book ideas…
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By Helen Sedwick (@HelenSedwick) Today’s writers wear many hats. We are Tweeters, Pinteresters, YouTube-ists and most of all, bloggers. Maybe we have heard about privacy policies, but we don’t know whether we need one. After all, we are not challenging Wall Street, City Hall, or Big Data. Most of us are not selling advertising space alongside our posts. We are…
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You always can think of a reason not to do what you say you want to do, which is to create a fabulous career as a nonfiction writer. How often do you find reasons to do what is necessary instead? Not often. I’ve heard the reasons: You don’t have the money. You don’t have the time. Your significant other (or…
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