Mistakes Authors Make Essential Steps for Achieving Success as an Author [Hardcover]

How many of the 50 biggest mistakes authors make are you making? When you learn to avoid the biggest mistakes authors make you can greatly enhance your chances for success in the publishing world.

In this insiders look at the worlds of publishing and book marketing coauthors Rick Frishman, Bret Ridgway and Bryan Hane bring their 65 combined years of experience in the publishing world to you and share their secrets to success. Youll learn:

How to master media and other key marketing channels authors should use

Keys to capturing the browsing buyer in bookstores and online

The new publishing landscape and how it impacts you

How to increase the readability of your book so readers keep coming back

How your book is the key piece of your own information marketing empire

And much, much moreEveryone has a story to tell. Don't you? And whether the purpose of your story is to inspire, to entertain, to train, or to simply capture your history in words you need to tell your story. No one else in the entire history of mankind shares your story. It is truly unique and individual to you.

People love stories and the story you have to share can truly make a difference in the life of another person. If you don't tell your story  if you don't write your book  then you are both depriving others of the benefit of your knowledge and your wisdom and depriving yourself of the satisfaction of having a positive impact on others.

So what's stopping you? If the thought of staring at a blank sheet of paper or a blank page on your computer screen is overwhelming you're not alone. Many people who say they want to write a book can't seem to get the first actual word down on paper or on the screen. They arl³-