Whether or not you’re previous book is a series or a stand alone story, the following prompts can help you create some ideas to use as a plot or subplot. Enjoy!
Just like that, you've written a book and poured your blood, sweat, tears and sanity into publishing it. So what’s next? Your next book of course!
Whether or not you’re previous book is a series or a stand alone story, the following prompts can help you create some ideas to use as a plot or subplot. Enjoy!
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Did you know that today is Women’s Equality Day? I just found out today and there’s a good reason I’m bringing it up.
Anyways, so your manuscript is complete with reviews/blurbs/endorsements and all. You’ve been reaching out to your target audience, promoting on social media and your blog, sent out press releases, participated in blog tours and answered author interviews. Your book is ready to be published for your readership to buy, find and share but hold on now. When is the release date? The above graphic is very busy isn’t it? Well that's the life an authorpreneur has to bear. Back in the day, the only requirement an author had was to write. Their publishers and/or agents would’ve taken care of everything else; all the marketing, promotion and publishing. But the paradigm has shifted.
In today’s publishing, an author is responsible for the marketing and promotion of themselves and their book(s). Hence the importance of the book proposal, business plan and using social media. If you’re not selling yourself, who’s going to sell you? To become a published author you have to create a business plan for your book(s). To the best of my ability, I’ll explain what a business plan is, the difference between a business plan and a book proposal, as well as ways to market and promote your book.
Did you know that although a business plan is different from a book proposal, a book proposal can help build your business plan. Who knew that they were so interrelated? However, a business plan is a step by step guide to publishing success that focuses on the four areas of authorship: writing, marketing, publishing and promoting, while a book proposal helps sell your book. It’s proof that you’re not just talking out your butt that your writing is the ish and will sell out faster than a Mr. and Mrs. Carter concert. It’s documented details composed of research on what your book is about and how it’ll fare against competitors in an already flooded market. Knowing about your competitors helps you to think of ways on how to set your book apart from them. If you follow this link to Susan Spann’s post, A Business Plan For Publishing Success, you’ll see all the components of the business plan. If you weren't aware of it already, I'm going to share with you a not so little secret when it comes to publishing your work. Whether or not your novel, poetry and short story collections, memoir, self- help, nonfiction etc. will be published by a press/publishing house or you're self-publishing it, you must GET THE WORD OUT months in advance. But how do you get the word out? Well I'm back from vacation and did I ever have a good time. But that's for another post. Despite my vacationing efforts thoughts about which road to take with my chapbook never failed to creep into my mind. I had been hemming and hawing over signing the publishing contract for a month now. And it's only now that I've come to realize that if I haven't already signed my Hancock as soon as I received it, then I had my answer.
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