7 Days To Easy-Money: Get Paid To Write A Book

7 Days To Easy-Money: Get Paid To Write A Book

Sell your book the easy way --- sell a proposal

You can get paid to write a book. It's easily possible to make a fast $10,000, or even a six figure amount. You could even make seven figures for twenty pages of text. It sounds incredible, but a fast seven figures is certainly possible if you have a HOT, hot idea or have had an experience that hundreds of thousands of people want to read about.

Table of Content

  • Introduction
  • Sell your book the easy way --- sell a proposal
  • You and your publisher: a partnership
  • Why write a proposal first?
  • How do you write a book proposal?
  • How to use this ebook
  • Work FAST
  • Can't devote a week to writing your proposal?
  • Day One: What’s a book proposal?
  • Day One Tasks
  • Task One:
  • Task Two: Work through the Idea Generator exercises in this chapter
  • Task Three: Create a computer folder to hold your working files
  • Task Three: Create a Work Log
  • What’s a book proposal?
  • Got an idea for your book? Great!
  • Start here to develop an idea for your next book
  • Idea Generator One: What you're good at
  • Idea Generator Two: Your past experiences
  • Idea Generator Three: Your knowledge
  • Idea Generator Four: What you enjoy most
  • Idea Generator Five: From challenge to opportunity
  • Checklist: Is this the right idea for you TODAY?
  • Day Two: Develop your idea and assess the market
  • Day Two Tasks
  • Task One: Keep studying non-fiction books
  • Task Two: Develop your idea
  • Dispelling myths and a word about confidence
  • Myth One
  • Myth Two
  • Myth Three
  • Myth Four
  • Today we'll develop your idea and assess the market
  • Note: your personal experience is valuable
  • Simple steps in developing your idea
  • Write down everything you know about this idea
  • Make a long list of possible book titles
  • Create a list of contacts
  • Assess the market for your book
  • Visit large bookstores
  • Visit your library
  • Amazon.com
  • Write a report on your discoveries
  • Day Three: Write the blurb and outline your book 
  • Day Three Tasks
  • Task One: Write at least three blurbs
  • Task Two: Collect sample blurbs
  • Writing the blurb
  • Your blurb helps your agent and editor to get a contract for you
  • Sample blurbs
  • Sample blurb from LifeTime: Better Time Management in 21 Days by Angela Booth
  • Sample blurb from Making The Internet Work For Your Business by Angela Booth 
  • Write your blurb in easy steps
  • One: Make a list of the benefits to the reader
  • Two: Rank the benefits
  • Three: Write several blurbs, in various lengths
  • Essential blurb add-on: the testimonial
  • Outlining your book
  • Start with a mind map
  • Create your outline
  • Day Four: Research your book proposal, and flesh out your book's outline
  • Day Four Tasks
  • Task One: Create your research plan
  • Task Two: Create a chapter outline for your book
  • Research: How much do you need to know?
  • Your research plan
  • Work on your book's outline and the first chapter, as you research 
  • The Brain-Dead Process
  • What goes into your chapter outline?
  • Will you need graphics or photographs?
  • Day Five: Write your proposal query letter, and submit it to agents and publishers
  • Day Five Tasks
  • Task One: Start a contact list of agents and publishers
  • Task Two: Send out ten query letters to agents and publishers
  • Today you write your proposal query letter
  • Do you need an agent?
  • Online resources to help you in your agent-hunt
  • Sending your query letter directly to publishers
  • Yes, you can multiple-submit your query letter, and even your proposal
  • Sample Query Letter
  • Another sample query letter
  • Write your query letter!
  • Here's a quick outline for your letter:
  • "Don'ts" for your query letter
  • Don't make unsupported claims for yourself or your book
  • Don't mention that you're unpublished
  • Don't mention that your partner, your best friend, or the milkman thinks that you’re a good writer or that you've got a brilliant idea for a book
  • Don't be specific
  • Day Six: Write the proposal
  • Day Six Task
  • Task One: Write the initial draft of your book proposal
  • Relax! You'll write your draft in stages
  • Let's write the proposal
  • Your chapter outline
  • Your background—why you're the person to write this book
  • Write the Overview
  • Sample Overview Writing To Sell In The Internet Age
  • The Internet gives writers unlimited new opportunities
  • A how-to plus a how-they-did-it
  • What I won't be including
  • Don’t hype, BUT DO INCLUDE EVERYTHING RELEVANT
  • Your Overview's length
  • Write the Promotions section
  • Promoting with money
  • Promoting with time
  • Sample Promotions section Writing To Sell In The Internet Age
  • My plan outline
  • Write the Competition section
  • Day Seven: Write the sample chapter and revise your proposal
  • Day Seven Tasks
  • Task One: Write the sample chapter
  • Task Two: Revision
  • Today you write your sample chapter
  • A fast chapter-writing method
  • Reread your notes
  • Talk to yourself on paper
  • When you're ready, write
  • Revising your proposal
  • How to revise
  • Read the entire proposal
  • Slash and burn
  • Add material
  • Read for coherency
  • Revise for style
  • Copyedit
  • You're done!

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