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Who will be the JK Rowling of self-publishing? Better still: who will be the legions who make an extra $1,000-$1,000,000 per year? (Photo: The Telegraph, UK) This is a guest post by Ryan Buckley and the team at Scripted. I have added my own tools and recommendations after “TIM” throughout the piece. Enter Ryan Buckley …
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Ernest Hemingway used to leave his final sentence of each day half finished. It gave him an easy starting point for the next morning. This interview on the creative process is part II in an interview with award-winning author Fred Waitzkin. Part I can be found here. Reading time: – Bolded points (teaser) – 3 …
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(Photo: EJP Photo) Total read time: 20 minutes Bolded read time (as a teaser): 4 minutes — I first met Josh Waitzkin at a coffee shop in Manhattan. About 15 minutes into sipping coffee and getting acquainted, I was thrilled to realize that he dropped f-bombs as much as I did. He was no Rain …
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The introduction to The 4-Hour Chef. The book has 1,000+ photographs and 100+ illustrations. If you missed the big news, The 4-Hour Chef is being boycotted by 700+ bookstores across the United States, led by Barnes & Noble. Why? Because I’m the next big bet from Amazon Publishing. I now have armies of booksellers hoping …
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Jack Canfield, as co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul, has more than 500 million books in print. Among them, he can count 47 New York Times bestsellers. Jack also provide me with the early advice and introductions that got The 4-Hour Workweek published, despite 26 rejections. In the above video, which was filmed as …
So you want a bestseller? If you’re going to compete against 200,000+ books per year in the US, you better understand how the lists work. (Photo: See-ming Lee) This will be a short post, but it’s one I’ve wanted to write for a long time. Special thanks to my book agent, Steve Hanselman, for help. …
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So, you want a high-traffic blog… (Photo: Bill Gracey) The following post can be considered Part II in a series on how I blog. Part I, which covers mostly everything not below, is titled “How to Build a High-Traffic Blog Without Killing Yourself.” Beginning at the Beginning My very first blog post of all time …
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Paulo Coelho (Photo: Philip Volsem) Paulo Coelho has long been one of my writing inspirations. His work, of near universal appeal, spans from The Alchemist to the most recent Aleph and has been translated into more than 70 languages. Few people know that The Alchemist, which has sold more than 65 million copies worldwide, was …
I first met filmmaker Adam Patch, courtesy of David Brundage on Facebook, over Thai food in San Francisco. It was a warm evening in the Mission district, a good omen and unusual blessing. The goal of our meeting was simple: to see if we clicked and, passing that hurdle, to plot the making of “the …
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Charlie’s job entails many things. Feeding tigers not excluded. Charlie Hoehn first reached out to me through Ramit Sethi in 2008. Almost three years later, he is still working with me. Here is his initial e-mail routed to Ramit, which I think is instructional for those looking for mentorship of some type: ———- Forwarded message …
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