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7 Days To Easy-Money:
Get Paid To Write A Book
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You
can get paid to write a book. It's easily possible to make a
fast $10,000, or even a six figure amount. You could even make
seven figures --- over a million dollars for twenty pages of
text. It sounds incredible, but a fast seven figures is
certainly possible if you have a HOT, hot idea or have had an
experience that hundreds of thousands of people want to read
about. In his 2001 book about writing non-fiction, Damn! Why
Didn't I Write That?, author Marc McCutcheon says that it's
not hard to make a good income: "you can learn the trade and
begin making a respectable income much faster than most people
think possible".
The good part is that you
don't need to write your book before you get some money. You
write a proposal, and a publisher will give you an advance,
which you can live on while you write the book.
Writing a proposal is the
smart way to write a book. It's the way professional writers
sell non-fiction. Selling a book on a proposal is much easier
than selling a book that you've already written. A book proposal
is a complete description of your book. It contains the title,
an explanation of what the book's about, an outline of chapters,
a market and competition survey, and a sample chapter.
A book proposal functions
in the same way as any business proposal does: you're making an
offer to someone you hope to do business with. It will be
treated by publishers in the same way that any business treats a
proposal. A publisher will read your proposal, assess its
feasibility, cost it, and if it looks as if the publisher will
make money, the publisher will pay you to write the book. When
you've sold your proposed book to a publisher, your role doesn’t
end with writing your book. You’re in partnership with your
publisher to ensure the book's success. If you do your part,
both you and your publisher will make money.
The
publisher's business is selling books. The company acquires
books which it hopes will sell, and sell well. Your publisher is
putting up the money to publish your book, so you need to
approach the project from his point of view as well as your own.
We haven’t got the space to go into great detail
about the publishing business here, but you need to know about
"returns", because the challenge of returns makes publishing
different from other businesses. Publishers sell books on
consignment. Publishers ship books to bookshops, and if a book
isn’t sold within a certain time period, it's destroyed. The
bookseller strips the cover from the book and sends the cover to
the publisher for a full credit. This is the "return". If a
title doesn’t sell, the publisher takes a beating. As you can
imagine, publishers are no more keen to lose money than you or
I.
What does this mean to you
as you write your book proposal? It means that your proposal
needs to emphasize the ways in which you, as the writer, will
take responsibility for the book's success.
You will try to ensure the
success of your book by gauging the marketplace. You will work
out who the likely buyers of your book might be, and the reasons
they will have for paying good money for your book. You'll
assess the competition for your book. You'll work out ways in
which you can promote your book, so that people hear about it.
You're in partnership with your publisher, and if you're
prepared to take responsibility for that role, the publisher
will be much more likely to buy your proposal.
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