Showing posts with label publish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label publish. Show all posts

Monday, 16 August 2010

Galvanize Your Creative Writing with Whole-Brained Thinking

One morning in early August 2010 I awoke to irrefutable verification that I had entered the first day of my 80th year on this planet.

Despite the relentless march of time I am still writing, painting watercolors, creating and running online businesses.

But above all, writing.

As a right brain dominant person I recall that my far off schooldays were absolute torture; endless boredom and the way classes were taught created frustration as I tried in vain to learn through instruction that was left brain oriented.

The only subjects I excelled in were English and Art (both right brain fodder) and they have been providing me with a living ever since.

If like me you are right-brained by nature but trapped in your left brain by a society that insists you stay there to cope with everyday pressures, then think again.

You could do as I did several decades ago and train yourself to become whole-brained…

How does that work?

In the middle of the left/right-brain continuum lie the whole-brained who can access the strengths of both the left- and right-brained populations.

You can think of whole-brained thinking any number of ways:

• You are riding the line between creative and analytical: between the pop psychology definitions of right-brained and left-brained.

• You are successfully integrating your brain's subcomponents into one powerful processor.

• You are tapping into your inner beauty, your complexity, your life fractal; you're riding the line between chaos and stagnation and loving every moment of it.

Time was already at a premium when I first started writing in earnest sixteen years ago but my freshly acquired skill of whole-brained thinking enabled me to crank out 37 books; all of which were traditionally published and all of which are best sellers in their respective niche.

My 38th title (ISBN 9781845284206) was published in June 2010 and has already entered the best seller lists.

No matter what age you are (or perceive yourself to be) whole-brained thinking will empower you to galvanize your creative writing but do so in such a manner that your work will have a better than evens chance of being published, attaining best seller status, and in the process opening the door to a myriad of residual and incremental earning opportunities.

JIM GREEN is a bestselling author with 38 traditionally published titles in the realms of fiction and non-fiction http://creative-writing-course-xl.com/

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Getting Your Book Published Despite Constant Rejection


You try and try and try again to get your book published but each time you try commissioning authors relentlessly respond with a terse, painful, “NO!”.

Stop beating yourself up over rejection – you are not to blame for the fact that you have yet to savour success in getting a book published - and you are not alone.

It's getting more difficult to achieve publication with each day that passes…

The book trade is now almost totally geared towards bestsellers and celebrities.

Breaking in new published authors and placing their work in bookshops is no easy matter.

Finding a Formula for Getting Published

I took up writing on a part time basis fifteen years ago and to date have churned out 37 traditionally published books, all of which have attained bestseller status in their respective niche.

With 37 published titles under my belt, it is reasonable to assume that I might just be in possession of information contrary to the reality of rejection that many less fortunate writers experience…

What interest could this statement hold for you?

Just this: what I have achieved so too can you (perhaps even more) if you apply yourself diligently to the timeless secrets that all successful writers have used down the ages.

What are these timeless secrets?

• Discovering the Route to Capitalizing on Your Innate Expertise
• Adopting Proven Formatting Techniques that Others Writers Ignore
• Developing Your Own Distinctive Writing Style
• Waking Up to What Never Fails to Impress Commissioning Editors
• Selecting Topics that Stimulate Publisher Interest
• Being Conscious of Why Guides and Manuals are in Perpetual Demand
• Learning How to Incorporate Bestselling Potential into Your Work
• Crafting a Timeless Niche for Your Book
• Uncovering a Hidden Technique for Locating Appropriate Publishers
• Writing a Winning Book Proposal for a Work of Fiction
• Mastering the Guidelines for Submitting a Non-Fiction Book Proposal
• Diligently Preparing Your Proposal for Acceptance
• Realizing Why Multiple Submissions Always Bite the Dust
• Knowing What to Ensure Before You Sign a Contract
• Always Retaining Copyright and Other Valuable Rights
• Understanding How to Address the Author Questionnaire Correctly
• Employing the Services of a Literary Agent Where Feasible
• Placing Your Work Elsewhere While You Await Obtain a Publishing Contract
• Being Aware of How to Self Publish without Incurring Huge Costs

Embryonic authors who take the trouble to sift through the information overload that strives to stifles all of us soon harness these timeless secrets and employ them to break down the barriers.

Wednesday, 28 October 2009

Breaking News for Aspiring Authors...


You CAN Become a Traditionally Published Author Despite the Misery of Repeated Rejection.

You have tried and tried and tried again to achieve published author status but each time you try to have a proposal for publication accepted, commissioning authors relentlessly respond with a terse, painful, “NO!”.

Stop beating yourself up over rejection – you are not to blame for the fact that you have yet to become a traditionally published author - and you are not alone.

Out of every 1000 proposals submitted to traditional publishing houses only ONE has a chance of acceptance.

Visit this newly launched website to discover how YOU could be that one in a thousand...

Friday, 10 October 2008

How to Write a Book, Get it Published, and Turn it Into a Bestseller

This 90-second video will give you a glimpse of what it takes to write a book, get it published, and turn it into a bestseller.

http://writeabook.1st-creative-writing-course.com

Wednesday, 8 October 2008

All That Glisters Is Not Gold…

First time out of the traps as an embryo author I got three offers of publication.

The first two were from long established publishing giants and the third from a smallish comparative newcomer.

I chose the newcomer.

Now why did I do that when clearly the book must have something special going for it to interest mainstream publishers?

Here’s why…

The owner of the small house persuaded me with reasoned argument that the text required substantial reworking if it was to become a page turner and then proceeded to instruct me on how to accomplish that.

What he effectively did was to teach me how to re-format my work so that it became injected with the mystery ingredient that leads to bestseller status.

As a result, that initial effort (out of 35 subsequently published titles) is still my front runner 15 years on with no obvious signs of slowing down.

I have never altered the structure, only updated it as required with the passage of time, and yet on each reprint and new edition it continues to sell more copies than before.

On my fourth or fifth offering (I cannot recall which) I was tempted by the lucre of a major house by way of a hefty advance but the experience was less than satisfactory; the book died on the shelves after less than two years due mainly to lack of aggressive promotion by the publisher.

The moral is: don’t be star struck when choosing your first publisher.

Smaller houses are invariably hungrier; eager to snap up proposals with potential and they go out of their way to ensure success.

The mystery ingredient; what is that?

I’m not about to give that away in an article but I will give you a hint; it has to do with what bestsellers are all about: the durability factor.

JIM GREEN is a bestselling author with 35 published titles in the realms of fiction and non-fiction

http://elite-creative-writing-course.com/main.html

Saturday, 4 October 2008

How’s this for inspiration?


One of my Facebook friends, 81 year-young Barbie Smith, self-published her first book some months ago and wrote to me expressing her determination to see it successfully promoted.

Following self generated book signings in Newbury and Southampton she has just received news from major UK book chain Waterstones that they have authorised all of their stores to retail her book.

What Barbie has accomplished is nothing short of stupendous.

She is a shining example to all embryo authors that neither the advancing years nor any other perceived obstacle present a barrier to success.

Incidentally, in her most recent communication, Barbie advised me that she has started work on her next book – and that’s before she heard the good news from Waterstones…