The Questions People Ask About Writing Niche Non-Fiction

Written by Jim Green


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ISN'T IT VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO GET PUBLISHED NOWADAYS?

If you're talking fiction, yes, most definitely that isrepparttar case. Butrepparttar 129137 beauty of writing for profit inrepparttar 129138 realms of niche non-fiction is that you avail yourself ofrepparttar 129139 facility for accurately pinpointing your marketplace and your publishing options.

CAN YOU REALLY TEST MARKET ONLINE TO GUAGE DEMAND?

Chapter 11 ofrepparttar 129140 tutorial reveals not only how you can do this effectively but why you should do it in order to gauge potential demand before you place your work with a traditional publishing house.

CAN YOU REALLY SELL ONLINE?

In Chapter 12 you will discover how one part time author produced an online bestseller that catapulted torepparttar 129141 #1 spot in Amazon.com within a week of its release. Most authors nowadays create a web site for promotion purposes (I have several and they all produce good business.)

YOU MENTION ADDITIONAL INCOME STREAMS. WHAT ARE THEY?

Read about them in Chapter 13 and start to get excited atrepparttar 129142 prospects.

AM I NOT JUST AS LIKELY TO END UP WITH PILES OF REJECTION SLIPS?

If you go out looking for them you won't be disappointed; you'll get them in abundance. Study and stick withrepparttar 129143 strategies in 'Writing for Profit in Your Spare Time' and you will cut downrepparttar 129144 incidence of rejection slips to a miniscule minimum.

Jim Green is a bestselling author with a string of niche non-fiction titles to his credit including 'Starting Your Own Business' (How To Books ISBN 1-85703-859-2) and 'Starting an Internet Business at Home' (Kogan Page ISBN 0-7494-3484-8). His tutorial is available at http://www.writing-for-profit.com

How My First Published Work Almost Hitrepparttar 129145 Dump Truck

My first published work (and coincidentally my first bestseller) came about by way of accident. What do I mean by that? Just this: I didn't set out to write a book. I was sitting at home one evening in December 1993 completing a review ofrepparttar 129146 meticulous notes I had compiled inrepparttar 129147 lead up to launching a new business. As I closedrepparttar 129148 ring binder and prepared to consign my accumulated data torepparttar 129149 dump truck I stopped in my tracks. Hey, I thought, there's book in here somewhere, there's an extra income opportunity, there's an opening to make money from writing, there's a way to create a residual income stream, and what's more, I can earn all of this extra income at home.

Busy though I was inrepparttar 129150 early days of my new enterprise I set about my extra income idea by drawing up a plan of action to transcriberepparttar 129151 recorded research into a how-to or self-help manual forrepparttar 129152 benefit of others about to embark upon what I had just achieved. This inspiration to earn extra income at home could only be accomplished in my spare time (what there was of it) but becauserepparttar 129153 material was in both date and chronological order I started out with a valuable edge. How to structurerepparttar 129154 text though, how to convert my expertise into a meaningful volume, how to develop its presentation into a format that would appeal torepparttar 129155 publishing industry, how in fact to locate a publisher: these were some of my dilemmas in my plan to earn extra income at home.

Five months later I putrepparttar 129156 finishing touches to my first draft and sent copies off to four niche publishing houses (something I've never done since nor would ever do again because it's bad form) and to my astonishment received two offers of intent of interest to pursuerepparttar 129157 project. I appeared to have hitrepparttar 129158 jackpot and I wondered why. It didn't take me long to figure that out. Happily, my text coincided withrepparttar 129159 emergence inrepparttar 129160 early 1990s of world wide government initiatives to stimulate indigenous economic growth by encouraging start-ups inrepparttar 129161 area of small to medium size business enterprises.

I decided to opt for one of these offers of publication which proved fortuitous because I was immediately teamed up with a highly experienced commissioning editor who taught me how to craft my raw text into what had been concerning me all along:repparttar 129162 production of a meaningful volume. "Starting Your Own Business" was published in October 1994, sold out of its first edition in December of that year, and was reprinted in January 1995. It has gone from strength to strength ever since and disposals continue to rise year-on-year justifying my plan to earn extra income at home.

I tell you all of this not to impress but to let you in onrepparttar 129163 secret of how my tutorial came into being.

Subsequent success in writing for profit in my spare time prompted me to delve deeply intorepparttar 129164 reasons why my work always seems to be on target. It couldn't all be down to luck. Sure, serendipity stepped in atrepparttar 129165 outset but there had to be more to it than that. I began to evaluate what I was doing right, where I was going wrong on occasion, what I thought I knew ad what I had still to learn from my peers. The result of my painstaking research is "Writing for Profit in Your Spare Time. This creative writing course encapsulatesrepparttar 129166 power-packed tried and tested strategies that work for me and other accomplished niche non-fiction authors; strategies that will work just as well for you. When you've done that: sign up for my free newsletter and I'll pass on new tips and techniques as they emerge.



Jim Green is a bestselling author with a string of niche non-fiction titles to his credit including 'Starting Your Own Business' (How To Books ISBN 1-85703-859-2) and 'Starting an Internet Business at Home' (Kogan Page ISBN 0-7494-3484-8). http://www.writing-for-profit.com


The Myth of the Writing Fairy

Written by Joseph Devon


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Now, do you want to knowrepparttar Writing Fairy’s major-super-bonus-end-all-be-all secret? Here it is. Keep it quiet. Put it inrepparttar 129134 bag somewhere next torepparttar 129135 cat or under your hat if you prefer. Here is my secret. You are a writer. Right now. With only what you have in your head as it is. You don’t need anything else. You are a writer. You just need to keep writing. Don’t letrepparttar 129136 Writing Fairy tell you that you aren’t. That you need something more, that you’re pretending to be something you’re not. Hemmingway wasn’t Hemmingway when he started. He was just a guy names Ernest who sat down at his typewriter. Believe me. You are a writer. You are a writer. You are a writer. And no, you don’t have to repeat that while clicking your heels three times. You don’t have to do anything but write. And that’srepparttar 129137 Writing Fairy’s horrible little secret. I stumbled uponrepparttar 129138 moment I stopped waiting for her to show me a sign thatrepparttar 129139 time was right to actually start typing and just went ahead and did it. Now isrepparttar 129140 right time; now or never.

So let’s go back torepparttar 129141 question atrepparttar 129142 beginning of this article. Any ideas on what those three books have in common? They’re all in English? Okay, I’ll add Les Miserables torepparttar 129143 list. They’re all fromrepparttar 129144 last few centuries? Okay, let’s throw The Iliad on there. Give up? What those books have in common, what every book you read has in common, is that it was written. Simple isn’t it? I told you it was. That isrepparttar 129145 only difference between what is in your head and any book you have ever picked up. Allrepparttar 129146 books you see every day were actually written. Someone sat down and wrote them out. That it. That’srepparttar 129147 secret. That’s whatrepparttar 129148 Writing Fairy is hiding from you. You’re ready to write your book. You just have to sit down and do it. I said thatrepparttar 129149 secret was simple…I also called it horrifyingly so atrepparttar 129150 beginning of this article. Why is it horrifying? Because, as I’ve mentioned,repparttar 129151 Writing Fairy is you. She makes it seem like she’s someone else. Someone or something you’re waiting for before you begin. But that someone or something doesn’t exist. The only thing that exists isrepparttar 129152 fears she creates inside of your head. And that means thatrepparttar 129153 person telling you to wait is you. The person holding you back is you. The person hesitating to write is you. Andrepparttar 129154 only person who can make you ignore all of this and just start writing…you guessed it…is you. So come on, stop reading this, open up a new document, start clicking away at those keys, don’t be afraid, just trust me on this one…you’re a writer.

Joseph Devon josephdevon.com

Joseph Devon is the author of two novels, numerous articles, and full time freelance author. To learn more about him or to read more please visit josephdevon.com


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