How to Become a Successful Author While Working Full-time: The Secret to Work-Life Balance


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Unsure how to hold a full-time day job, a second career as an author and have a life outside of working? This book provides not only the details on how to enact a plan that will help you achieve your goal as an author, but also gives you the tools to deal with the stress of juggling multiple jobs, making time for family/friends and committing to practicing self-care. Each chapter provides a roadmap on how to be successful by helping you define your goal, write a business plan, create a schedule, commit to yourself as well as how to prevent burnout and implement a marketing strategy for your book. Specific tips are given not only in marketing but also how to remain healthy in mind and body for the life of your career.




Write It Foward


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This is a revised second edition of what was originallytitled Warrior Writer. Write It Forward is a one-of-a-kind book focusing on you, the author. In Write It Forward Bob Mayer applies the time-tested strategies of the Green Berets to the world of beinga successful author. He has taught thousands of writers overthe years, but this new and innovative program probes deeperthan words on the page. It is designed to teach writers howto think, plan and become the future best-sellers of the newage of publishing. The benefits you'll gain from this bookwill extend far beyond your writing and reach into all areasof your life making dreams a reality."I have always loved how your programs delved deeply intothe pyschological models you need to developcharacters. No you are using that to develop people."Co-Creeator of the Chicken Soup Books Jack Canfield"Whatever Bob Mayer has to tell us about writing is somethingwe should know. His Toolkit proves an invaluable resource forbeginning and seasoned writers alike. Don't miss out."#1 NY Times best-selling author Terry Brooks"Bob Mayer is a gifted writer and a generous teacher."#1 NY Times best-selling author Susan Wiggs




Ordinary People


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One of the great bestseller of our time: the novel that inspired Robert Redford’s Oscar-winning film starring Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore In Ordinary People, Judith Guest’s remarkable first novel, the Jarrets are a typical American family. Calvin is a determined, successful provider and Beth an organized, efficient wife. They had two sons, Conrad and Buck, but now they have one. In this memorable, moving novel, Judith Guest takes the reader into their lives to share their misunderstandings, pain, and ultimate healing. Ordinary People is an extraordinary novel about an "ordinary" family divided by pain, yet bound by their struggle to heal. "Admirable...touching...full of the anxiety, despair, and joy that is common to every human experience of suffering and growth." -The New York Times "Rejoice! A novel for all ages and all seasons." -The Washington Post Book World




How to Get Your Book Published


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Here is a practical "how-to" roadmap by a hugely successful author written for the unpublished massed.




The Successful Author Mindset


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Being a writer is not just about typing. It's also about surviving the roller-coaster of the creative journey. Self-doubt, fear of failure, the need for validation, perfectionism, writer's block, comparisonitis, overwhelm, and much more. This book offers a survival strategy and ways to deal with them all.




Become a Successful Indie Author


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Demystifying the tangled web of self-publishing to put you on the road to success. This is a motivational guide based on my two and a half million published words (mostly with Amazon) to help you see past the hurdles that are keeping you from climbing the mountain of success. Nothing is overwhelming once it's been explained. If you are smart enough to write a book, you are smart enough to do everything else needed to make your indie author business a success. "Craig, thanks to the book, I went from kicking around vague concepts for my first series to knowing exactly how to proceed with it, and because of that I know it'll be far more successful than it would have been if I hadn't read this." "This was insightful and motivating, I'm inspired and wiser for it. Thank you, Craig." "Over the years, I've read many How To Books, Self Help Biographies, and Industry Books. Become a Successful Indie Author is one of the best. It reads like a novel, teaches specifics like a field manual, and shines light on pathways through the dark jungle of self-publishing." Clocking in at nearly 50,000 words, this guide has something for every budding author as well as those who have already published, but for whom success remains elusive. In this business there is only one hard and fast rule - you must find readers willing to pay for your stories. It starts with the first sentence. You have to write a gripping story that people want to read, wrap a cover around the book, and then do the marketing. There's no doubt that you can do it. Let me show you how.




How to Become a Successful Author


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Are you tired of writing books that release to crickets? Are you sick of reading hundreds of articles about how to find more readers? Are you lost in a sea of information without any direction on how to move forward? Then How to Become a Successful Author is the perfect book for you. Russell Nohelty is a USA Today bestselling author who has spent a decade in the writing trenches building his own career, growing a network of successful authors, and helping hundreds of authors with their marketing. This book compiles the best tips, tricks, and hacks from his life, and the most powerful secrets he has learned from other authors about how to make six figures or more as an author. Inside: Learn the secrets to self-publishing success Discover the exact steps to landing a publishing contract Find out how to build a network of successful authors Launch a book successfully into Kindle Unlimited and wide on all platforms Build an audience that's eager to buy your books every time you launch And so much more. There are over 50 hard won lessons in this book, all borne from life as a successful writer. You'll leave this book with the tools and ability to make a living as a writer without struggling every minute of the day. How to Become a Successful Author is broken up into three sections: Mindset, all about how to build focus, grit, and resilience, Writing, where Russell breaks down how to build a successful book from the ground up, and Marketing, where you'll learn how to take your book and share it with the world. This is the best book you'll ever read on building a successful author career from the ground up, packed with everything you need to know to become a successful author, starting today. Get it now.




I Forgot to Die


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Khalil Rafati went to Los Angeles in the 1990s and had it all. He was working with Hollywood movie stars and legendary rock musicians, but it wasn t long before he found his way into the dark underbelly of the City of Angels. When he hit rock bottom addicted to heroin and cocaine, overtaken by paranoia and psychosis, written off by his friends and family he grabbed a shovel and kept digging. At 33, Khalil was 109 pounds, a convicted felon, high school dropout, and homeless junkie living on the infamous Skid Row in downtown L.A.




Teach Me How to Die


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Walter Klein can't stop thinking about death. He wonders what would happen if he stuck a knife in his toaster. He wonders if his latest elevator ride will end in the cable snapping and everyone plummeting to their doom. He wonders if today will be the day he dies, but he knows it won't be from a toaster or an elevator. It will be from the cancer. He has refused treatment, and soon the cancer will take him away. There is no hope left. When Walter finally passes on, after a painfully ordinary day full of a million little regrets, he has no idea what awaits him. The first person Walter meets on his journey is his guide, Vincent. As the two men make their way through different planes of existence and contemplate the true meanings of life and death, something surprising will happen. Vincent begins to see Walter as a friend. The adventures that await the lonely spirit and his steadfast guide will change both of their hearts and reveal the truth about human nature. Writer Joseph Rauch uses Walter and Vincent to weave an intricate story about spirituality, death, grief, and love.




Misrule


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The third thrilling book in Jodi McAlister’s page-turning Valentine series. Things that happen sometimes when your boyfriend is a magical fairy prince: he gets kidnapped by his older brother and whisked away to fulfil his destiny in their magical fairy kingdom. But Pearl Linford is not having that. It’s time for a rescue mission. Pearl told Finn she was coming to get him and she's not going to let anyone in her way. But will Finn want to be saved? And should she have listened to all those people who told her he wasn't worth saving?