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Helping authors write, publish, and market their books. With one-on-one coaching, online courses, and live events. |
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In This Issue:-- Welcome! Happy New Year!
-- Tomorrow: The *free* Fiction Writers Online Intensive begins
-- Book Marketing: 3 simple steps for your book promotions planning for 2014
-- Upcoming events to help you get your novel done
-- My gift to you: The New Year's issue of the Author Entrepreneurship Magazine online
-- New! Deep change work sessions now offered
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Welcome to the Creativity Sparks newsletter, by author's coach, speaker, and award-winning novelist, Beth Barany
February 2, 2014
Hello Friend,
Happy New Year! I hope your year has gotten off to a creative start. I know mine has.
I've been enjoying the Super Bowl and all the creative commercials as I prepare this newsletter for you. How about the awesome Bruno Mars!
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Some of what I've been up to...
To give you some perspective, the Henrietta book has been over 7 years in the making. I stuck with it and kept writing, even though I had a lot of false starts and wrote myself into dark corners.
What kept me going was the desire to tell the story of this strong young woman heroine. I wanted to explore what it means to be a leader, when all the choices are the difficult ones.
What also kept me going was the very real desire to have Henrietta be a role model. Only my readers can tell me if I've succeeded. :)
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In other news...
Thanks for all who participated in the Holiday Special! I've contacted you to set up your complimentary coaching sessions, and I'll be announcing the winner of the Grand Prize soon! The Grand Prize winner will get a all-expenses paid pass to the next Author Group Coaching Program that starts in April.
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Read for other offerings and support to help novelists create successful careers...
I'm passionate about helping you walk your creative and unique path.
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Write, Finish, or Publish Your Book in this free 5-day intensive
Get into action! Join us for the next free online intensive.
We start tomorrow, Monday, Feb. 3.
Sorry for my delay in getting this update to you. You can join anytime during the week. And I'll be running another one in March.
In our boot camp we’ll help you find your doable next step and accomplish it in five days.
– Want to get you book done? Write 1000-2500 words (or more!) in five days.
–Edit 20-30 pages thoroughly in five days.
– Research 10-20 agents in five days.
– Write and polish your query and synopsis in five days.
– Convert your book to ebook for the Kindle and upload in five days.
– Write and polish 5 marketing pitches in five days.
– Draft a marketing plan and start implementing in five days.
What can you do in five days to move your author career forward?
Sign up here. We start tomorrow! |
| | 3 simple steps for your book promotions planning for 2014 |
| Hello writers! As we begin the sweet and fresh year, it’s a great time to think about and plan our book promotions.
Before we get to planning, let’s think about the point of our book promotions. Ideally it’s to sell books, even though we can’t control the final step of our readers or potential readers buying our books. What we can more easily control is adding people to our mailing lists or inviting them to join us on the social media channels. Even if you don’t have a book out yet, you can invite people to join your mailing list. In fact, I highly recommend it. That way, when it comes time, you can announce your book to your list.
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March 8, 2014: Presenting at DAY OF THE BOOK, Pleasanton, CA JFK University. Sign up details here.
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| | | Welcome to the New Years 2014 issue of the Author Entrepreneurship Magazine online
In all my years writing and publishing fiction and nonfiction books — a total of 6 years and 8 books — I have learned that what makes a bestseller is nebulous and not necessarily long-lasting. I don’t mean to be negative; as authors we can’t control what readers do, but we can control what we write and that we write. Several of my books have been bestsellers on Amazon in their category for about a minute, and other books have sold well but never showed up on any list. Many of the authors I’ve interviewed, including Bella Andre and Tina Folsom featured in this issue, report making great sales before showing up on any bestsellers lists.
What exactly is being a bestselling author or having a book that is a bestseller? Well, that depends, but over all it means that your book sells better than other books in a certain time or place. On Amazon, the bestsellers lists are calculated every hour. On other lists like The New York Times, USA Today, and the Wall St. Journal, the bestsellers listings are created based on how many books have sold in a given week, what the season is, where the books are sold, and what the competition is. (More on how bestsellers lists are created are here in an article I wrote on my blog, the Writer’s Fun Zone, in 2010.)
If you’re determined to be a bestseller, just know what you’re up to. Get educated and read the articles in the issue, as well as whatever else you can get your hands on. An educated author can set goals appropriate to their career as it is. To me that’s success!
And Happy New Year! May 2014 be the year you achieve your goals and dreams and have the success you desire.
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| | | | Are you seeking deep change? The ability to write when you want? The clarity to see your way to "The End"?
What if you could have the change you desired in a way that completely respected and appreciated you in your entirety?
I can help you have that change.
For the last 2 years since I completed my Master Practitioner NLP training at NLP Marin, I've been deeply and organically integrating change work -- NLP or neurolinguistic programming -- with my coaching practice with authors.
If you're curious about having an NLP session with me to help create the change you desire, just write me to schedule your session. I'm offering an introductory price of $150 for a 90-120 minute session. Once I get my sales page up with all my packages, my price will go up.
Sessions take place over the phone or via Skpe.
I accept payment via PayPal, credit card (Visa, Mastercard), and via Chase QuickPay. Payment is required before the session begins.
If you have any questions, just email me. Thanks!
Here's to your success! |
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