What You Get With a Personal Consultation
By Jerry D. Simmons | August 15th, 2006 | No Comments » (Click to add yours!)
This blog is intended to answer the many questions I receive about my Personal Consultation. Here is what you get:
- Guidance–clear direction before you spend money and waste time,
- Experience–25 years in publishing,
- Answers–to all your questions,
- Information–honest, dependable without a sales pitch,
- Savings–both in time and money.
It doesn’t matter where you are with your writing career, making the wrong choices based on input from family and friends may cost you thousands of dollars and months of frustration. Don’t cut corners, talk to me before you make critical decisions.
Being a successful author after years of writing is difficult, but you need information that you can trust to help in making decisions. You also need to ask yourself questions and think about the answers:
- What are the goals for my book?
- What do I hope to accomplish?
- Who is my audience?
- How do I reach these readers?
- What am I willing to do to be successful as an author?
The more thought you give to these questions the better able you will be to maximize the time we spend together.
Considering the details and cost of self-publishing, compared to the cost of signing with a print-on-demand company, as well as the time involved with seeking out a small press, to the problems you might encounter with finding an agent. Do you know where to start? An hour on the phone with me will help you to decide what steps to take first.
I am not an advocate for any specific type of publishing, I will guide you in the direction that seems best for your book, that will give you the greatest opportunity to be successful, which means selling books.
I cannot help you if your book is:
- The best ever written,
- Perfect for a major motion picture, or
- Belongs on Oprah.
Unfortunately no one can help. You have to be realistic in your expectations, not dreams. You can dream big but it doesn’t happen overnight and it’s not accidential. The expectations for your book are important but they must be realistic in today’s marketplace and the best way to discover that fact is with me in a Personal Consultation. It’s a bargain compared to lost time and thousands of dollars in wrong decisions about your future.
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