Invest in Yourself and Your Book
By Jerry D. Simmons | August 8th, 2006 | No Comments » (Click to add yours!)
Since the announcement of my seminar with Mark Crockett I have received tons of emails asking me how I would differentiate Mark’s and mine with others being offered around the country. The answer is “Publishing Outside of the Box, Empowering Writers One Person at a Time,” is about what should happen after your writing is completed. When you have a finished manuscript or published book in your hand and you begin to wonder, what next?
There are plenty of workshops that cover every conceivable aspect of writing, but this seminar is much different. You will get a step-by-step approach to:
- The marketplace: how it all works, what you need to know as an author to be successful.
- Your publishing options, from self-published, print-on-demand, small press to major publishers, which is best for your book and how to maximize the choice you have already made.
- Marketing from advertising and promotion to publicity, what works, what doesn’t and why.
- How to get started with marketing yourself and your book, step-by-step.
Of course many of you will see this blog as nothing more than a shameless ploy to sell my seminar and you will be partly right. Certainly I am trying to promote my seminar but it is important to realize that selling books is much more than having media contacts and knowing how to write a press release. It’s one piece to a puzzle that can be meaningless if you don’t have all the pieces. This seminar is the total package.
Invest in yourself and your book; if you don’t understand the market for selling books and how to use the weaknesses of major publishers to your advantage, you will struggle trying to sell books. Every publisher and author is searching for readers and regardless of how you decide to publish; you must understand how the market reacts to your efforts or else you will waste money and time.
Mark and I have over 30 years of experience between us and have both traveled a different road, but we are passionate about sharing our knowledge with you, the writer. If you are trying to decide which workshop or seminar to attend, simply take a close look at the credentials and topics of those presenting, then make your decision. Whichever one you choose, I wish you nothing but success and hope you sell lots of books.
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