(even if you have only 10 minutes a day!)​​​​​​​

​​​​​​​Get Must-Know Tips for Planning & Plotting Your book.

A well planned and executed blog builds your audience, creates content for future books, and enhances your author credibility. It can even get you more book contracts.

Learn how to make your author blog work, and why most author blogs fail. Learn about blog platforms, choosing content, scheduling effectively, monetizing your blog, copyright and FTC disclosure issues and more.

In the publishing arena, formal book proposals serve as sales tools sent to editors and publishers. Traditional publishers offer contracts based on the content of the reviewed proposal.

Nonfiction and fiction proposals use different formats and content. Authors seeking traditional publication must prepare professional sales materials designed to “sell” the editor and/or publisher on the merit of the manuscript.

Learn how to choose saleable topics, build an impressive bio, query (or not), and craft the proposal. This includes what components make up the nonfiction book proposal vs a pitch proposal for fiction, how to format your package and create your competition/market survey. It also includes tips for finding expert sources.

Book promotion and author branding, in combination, help make a book successful. Writing a brilliant book comes first, of course, but readers must be able to find your work to purchase and read it. That means DISCOVERABILITY.

The session also addresses ways to define, enhance, and build your author brand to create credibility as the go-to expert in your field.

For your book to be discovered amid the masses of published work requires effort on several fronts. This coaching call outlines basic principles for book promotion before, during, and after publication. Learn about popular and effective free-to-pricy advertising options.

Hone your media pitch for TV, podcasts, or other appearances with interview presentation tips, production how-to advice. 

While it can be pricey to hire it done, there are ways to royalty-share while earning income. Some authors are uniquely qualified to “voice” their own books. Learn about the current DIY audio platforms available, how to turn your print/Ebook into audio, and why you should.

It goes beyond sticking a dog or cat in the story as a prop, or (gasp!) a victim for shock value. Don’t do that. But animal companions add so much to the texture and engagement of fiction, learn the does and don’ts for making your non-human characters resonate with readers.