Be clear and precise on who or what kind of people you want to reach out your message or story. Consistency on knowing your audience is the foundation and direction for the content of your book.

Writers are a unique bread who just happen to believe that hard work should earn high reward. But that’s not entirely true, because your work is not done until you complete each and every step needed to earn that income.

Ebook sales grow daily and the future is digital content. Your book can be on the Kindle digital book reader within 48 hours. Here’s how.

If you are a professional speaker, there is no easier, faster, or more affordable way to get published than by contributing to an anthology. Experience Success by Association! Make money every time you speak by offering an outstanding anthology to your audiences.

In today’s publishing world, to land a book deal, an author must have a platform to attract the interest of agents and editors. An author’s platform is all the ways the author is visible. Platform development is important not only for authors, but it’s also crucial for aspiring and soon-to-be authors. So how does an author develop a platform? The answer is provided in “Get Known Before The Book Deal: Use Your Personal Strengths to Grow an Author Platform” by Christina Katz.

Whether you are writing a non-fiction or a fiction book, there are guidelines you must follow, both in creating your text and formatting your manuscript. Help is available in the form of stylebooks that give writers such information as when to capitalize certain words, how to cite sources in text, where to use italics, and so forth.

You have enough information and experience in your brain right now to turn it into a lifetime stream of income. But right now, it’s just unclaimed money.

Are you thinking about publishing a book or other type of writing? Read on to find out why publishing your own writing may be the fastest and most lucrative way to go.

All new authors at some point or another have visions of grandeur, we all want some big publishing house to read our work and offer a lucrative book contract. Hold on, that may not actually be your best and most profitable route, lets take a look at the math behind your decision.

Self-publishing today takes many forms but it is definitely not restricted to the old vanity press model where you paid for thousands of books that you then stacked in your garage. I admit that in the fall of 2007 I was resistant to the entreaties of a colleague that I consider self-publishing my long-gestating novel.