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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