Evaluate Your Book for Success
A Step-by-Step Workshop for Conceiving a Successful Book Before You Give Birth to It
If you’ve already written a manuscript or a book, the proposal process helps you evaluate if you need to re-angle your book, alter the title, add features or benefits, etc. It also will tell you if you need to toss the manuscript in the garbage and start on a new one.
You can also use the workbook if you've already written a proposal. It will help you evaluate your idea and discern if you have all the information you need to win the attention of an agent or publisher.
If you’ve already written your book – and it’s not selling, use the proposal process to see where you went wrong and to rewrite and create a business plan for success.
The proposal “process” doesn’t involve actually writing a completed book proposal. By moving through the 9 steps, you will compile all the information necessary to write a proposal should you want to do so later, and you will hone your idea and conceive a book idea that sells — to publishers as well as to readers.
So don't write that book...yet! Don't submit that manuscript or proposal...yet! Don't publish your book...yet! First, go through the proposal process. Learn how to use the step-by-step book proposal process to help hone and focus your ideas so you can create traditionally published or self-published books that sell— to publishers and to readers!
This is NOT a workshop on how to write a nonfiction book proposal (but you’ll learn a lot about it and leave ready to write one). This IS a workshop about how to use the nonfiction book proposal writing process to conceptualize both the creative and business aspects of a successful nonfiction book.
In this workshop, you’ll:
· Hone your idea
· Discover the features and benefits of your book
· Find your markets and identify your readers
· Conceptualize your book chapter by chapter
· Fine tune your contents based on the competition
· Decide if you are the best person to write this book
· Create a business plan for your book
· Determine if now is the right time to publish your book
· Create a writing guide
· Evaluate if you and your book have what it takes to succeed
During this workshop we will go through all nine parts of a book proposal to show attendees how to use this industry standard as a process to evaluate their ideas and themselves. When done, everyone will be ready to either move forward with their idea or know it needs to be revamped or thrown in the trash. They’ll have a process they can use over and over again to evaluate their ides and create the business plan they need to succeed in the book publishing world.
SUNDAY APRIL 29, 2012:
How to Write a Short Book Fast!
4 Ways to Compile & Publish a Manuscript in Record Time
· Do you want a published product to sell while you build your author platform by speaking?
· Do you have tips you’d like to put into a full-length book but no time now to write it?
· Would you like to write your book quickly?
· Do you have blog content you’d like to recycle into money-making published products?
· Would you like to promote your novel with unique information products – and make money from these at the same time?
If you answered “yes” to even one of these questions, you’ll find the information you need at this workshop. Learn how to write and publish tip books, booklets (short books or condensed versions of full-length books), blogged books (manuscripts written while blogging), and booked blogs (books created from blog posts). Discover how to repurpose your written material while producing salable products.
You’ll leave with outlines, written material, plans, how-to info, and tons of ideas (+promotion tips) for writing a variety of books fast.
Nonfiction writers: If you are interested in tip books, booklets, short books, blogging a book, recycling blog posts into books, or want to be inspired to produce information products to sell at the back of the room when you speak, this is the workshop for you. You’ll discover everything you need to get moving on numerous projects and start making money and calling yourself an author sooner than you thought possible.
Fiction writers: If you want some unique ways to promote your novels on-line and off, consider producing a tip book or a booklet with related information. Plus, this can provide you with additional income — sometimes more than the novel itself — with information products, speaking and coaching or consulting on subjects related to your novel (all of which can help you sell more books).
Nina Amir, Your Inspiration-to-Creation Coach, inspires writers to create the results they desire--published products and careers as writers and authors. She is an author, freelance editor, and writing, blogging and author coach who has five blogs, including Write Nonfiction Now and How to Blog a Book, and writes two on-line columns at Examiner.com. She is the founder of the Write Nonfiction in November, a blog and challenge. Find out more about her at CopyWright Communicatiions or at www.NinaAmir.com.
The price will be $35 for each day, and a significant discount for those who want to attend both Saturday and Sunday-- $55 for both days.
The classes will be held at the Apple Valley Chamber of Commerce, 1610 Apple Valley Road, in the Spirit River Center of Apple Valley.
*Saturday hours: 9 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. with a noon "On Your Own" lunch hour
*Sunday hours: 11 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with a 1 PM "On Your Own" lunch hour