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Rut-Busting Book for Authors, an American Book Fest's 2019 Best Book Awards Finalist, Independent Author Network 2020 Book of the Year Finalist, and 2019 Readers' Favorite 5-Star award-winner, addresses the ruts that would-be and current authors can fall into when writing, publishing, and promoting their books.
The book includes tips, techniques, and strategies from authors as well as editors, literary agents, literary attorneys, publishers, book...
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If you want to write your own high-converting sales letter that coverts into sales, then get BJ Min's Copywriting for Beginners now! In this short, straight-to-the-point step-by-step guide, you will discover the 21-step formula to write your own high-converting sales letter.
This is created by best-selling author and full-time Internet marketer BJ Min, who went from being a once-broke convenience store clerk to eventually earning over a million dollars...
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You can write a book - anyone can. But if you want to write a book that people will want or even need to read, it's not as simple as sitting down to write. In fact, that's one of the biggest mistakes unsuccessful authors make.
Writing a book can be one of the smartest moves for your business success. But you need more than writing skills to create an impressive book that readers will love. You also need a plan to market, sell, and leverage your book...
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The goal of book marketing is to stop needing to do it
Learn how to:
• Scope your book into the world's best solution for a certain type of reader
• Test, improve, & iterate your ToC without needing to rewrite anything
• Design a engaging reader experience that makes your book a delight to read
• Discover the hidden analytics of boredom & confusion to identify book-killing problems & make the most of beta readers
• Treat marketing as a temporary...
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Author Theresa Sneed loves to help others learn how to write and publish books almost as much as she loves writing herself. In this short, informative book, she shares her writing steps to success. Step 1. Get your writing sanctuary ready Step 2. Schedule a consistent time to write Step 3. Begin an ideas page or folder Step 4. Brainstorm ideas Step 5. Storyboarding Step 6. Develop your writing Step 7. Find beta readers Step 8. Start a new writing...
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You know there is a novel locked inside of you-chock-full of conflict, humor, irony, enthralling events and fascinating characters. What you don't know is how to set it free.
Practical Advice, Hands-On Help
Respected author and professional writing instructor Lou Willett Stanek's New York workshops have enabled scores of aspiring novelists to realize their dreams of completing credible and compelling manuscripts. Here, in a positive, "user-friendly"...
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An innovative exploration of a butterfly's life cycle - in reverse.
"If you want to be a butterfly, then arise, unfurl and welcome the waiting world," begins this book's narrator. Readers will flit from flower to flower with an adorable butterfly ... hold on tight with a chrysalis through all sorts of weather ... munch away with a greedy little caterpillar ... sit very, very still and dream big with a teeny tiny egg. It's a magical journey back...
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It is my absolute pleasure to introduce Francisco Angulo's witty and insightful book "Things you shouldn't do if you want to be a writer." As an avid reader and literary critic, I was instantly drawn into Angulo's world from the very first chapter. His candid reflections on the trials and tribulations of being an emerging writer in Spain offer a rare behind-the-scenes look at this competitive industry. Through humorous anecdotes and thoughtful commentary,...
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The title of this book immediately makes you think of little children singing happily... Do you read your Bible every day? Do you pray every day? This book will open your eyes to this amazing one-of-a-kind-book called the Bible. It will also open to you the miracles that come to you daily as you read the Bible and pray every day. May your daily bible reading, and daily prayer be enjoyable to you!
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If You Want to Get Rich - Build a Power Niche is the magic bullet written by a rainmaker lawyer, "not" an academic in an ivory tower that shows readers how to implement the strategic marketing process of building a Power Niche step-by-step.
Any individual, regardless of their experience level, can potentially build a multi-million-dollar business by implementing the strategic marketing process of building a Power Niche. The Power Niche is based on...
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Welcome to the world of Whatever You Want, a novel that turns twentysomething London into a fantasyland of endless possibilities. Play the game as Barbarella -- alluring, flirtatious, and sharp as the lash from a bondage whip -- or as Barnaby, with his insatiable attraction to beautiful women and danger. Armed only with your quick wits and social expertise to navigate through the minefields of drunken gratification, easy conquests, and ruthless adversaries,...
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"You either were there or you wanted to be. The Freaks Came Out to Write is the definitive oral history of The Village Voice-a New York City institution. Roaming its cramped, chaotic halls were the people who had written the first stories about the Stonewall Riots and the gay rights movement; who had advocated for civil rights before it was mainstream. The Voice was the first to cover hip-hop, the avant-garde art scene, and the AIDS crisis with urgency...
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"A new, twisted suspense novel by national bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto. Jane is unhappy. A struggling midlist writer whose novels barely command four figures, she feels trapped in an underwhelming marriage, just scraping by to pay a crippling Bay Area mortgage for a house--a life--she's never really wanted. There's only ever been one person she cared about, one person who truly understood her: Thalia. Jane's best and only friend nearly a decade...
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Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2023]
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"More than 30 acclaimed writers--including diverse voices such as Nikki Giovanni, David Omotosho Black, Natasha Trethewey, Barry Jenkins, Jacqueline Woodson, Tayari Jones, and Angela Flournoy--reflect on their experience and expertise in this unique bookon the craft of writing that focuses on the Black creative spirit"--
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
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"Film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades-a heralded actor who's played the roles he wanted, unchecked by the racism and typecasting so rife in the mostly all-white industry in which he triumphed. Billy Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he made his stage debut working with Lotte Lenya in an Ira Gershwin/Kurt Weill production where Williams ended up...
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Dutton
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[2023]
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"An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New York Times bestselling author Jeff Tweedy, sharing fifty-plus songs that changed his life, the real-life experiences behind each one, as well as what he's learned about how music and life intertwine and enhance each other What makes us fall in love with a song? What makes us want to write our own songs? Do songs help? Do songs help us live better lives?...
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"Budding artist May Parker is captivated by the Japanese exhibits at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and longs to know more about her mother's heritage--which her mother refuses to speak of because of the heartache she left behind in Japan. Wanting to experience more of the exhibits, May works as a Camera Girl--but her curiosity leads her into danger when a suit of samurai armor becomes the target of an elusive art forger. After ten years apart,...
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Blue Star Press
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2024.
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"Helene Sula (@heleneinbetween) always knew she wanted to pursue something a little different from a "normal life"--not an outright rejection of the conventional path many of her peers embraced but one that empowered her to experience other cultures and corners of the globe. To lead a stable life and travel the world. To seek adventure and still be happily married. Helene's story proves that a life of travel doesn't have to be the antithesis of stability;...