How to write, sell, and market a business book – V: Publishers
Your proposal has acquired the love of a reputable agent, and he or she is out selling it to the highest bidding publisher. That process can take a few weeks to a few months. Publishing is seasonal;...
View ArticleHow to develop a paid public speaking career – VII: Those FAQs
I’m closing out this series on your paid public speaking career with some FAQs. 1. So I need a book – can I self-publish? The answer is no. At this point, self-publishing just doesn’t measure up in...
View ArticleHow to make your book successful – a 5-step plan (PWSF 2010)
I'm delighted to welcome a guest blogger to this space: Sarah Morgan, a writer for SmartMoney.com, attended the Public Words Speaker Forum 2010 and is writing up some of the speakers and sessions....
View ArticleHow to work with publishers and agents: The Public Words Speaker Forum 2010
As I’ve blogged before, professional speakers need books in order to sustain a career over the long term. And that means books published by traditional publishing houses for the most part, though...
View ArticleShould You Write an eBook?
Should you write an eBook? Should you publish one? What does that even mean? I get asked these questions all the time by people understandably confused by the sudden explosions of options in...
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Should you write an ebook
We’ve been getting lots of questions about eBooks so we decided to dedicate our first Public Words newsletter to the topic. Many authors ask us whether they should write and publish their own eBooks....
View ArticleAre You an Author? How to Survive the Book Business Today
The author and book business is changing rapidly, and the news is not good for a lot of the players. Fortunately, they can take a note from the music business and change their modus operandi to...
View ArticleSpeakers worth catching – 4: Craig Mod and the Do Lectures
Watch out, TED. There’s a rival for your viewers’ attentions out there: the Do Lectures. The Do Lectures are granola and Birkenstocks where TED is arugula and, I don’t know, Italian loafers. The Do...
View ArticlePeople I’m Grateful for #10 – Harlequin Publishing – A Publisher Gets It Right
What do Harvard Business Publishing and Harlequin – the publisher of a gazillion romance novels – have in common? More than you might think. I’ve blogged before about Harvard’s efforts to create a...
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Should You Self-Publish Your Book?
Here’s the problem with self-publishing: no one cares about your book. That’s it in a nutshell. There are somewhere between 600,000 and 1,000,000 books published every year in the US alone, depending...
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