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How to Market a Book: Third Edition
Author: The Yoga of Max's Discontent
Author: Karan BajajPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698192044
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
“A beautifully rendered epic journey . . . . The novel works on many levels and excels at them all.” —New York Journal of Books In this captivating and surprising novel of spiritual discovery—a No. 1 bestseller in India—a young American travels to India and finds himself tested physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Max Pzoras is the poster child for the American Dream. The child of Greek immigrants who grew up in a dangerous New York housing project, he triumphed over his upbringing and became a successful Wall Street analyst. Yet on the frigid December night he’s involved in a violent street scuffle, Max begins to confront questions about suffering and mortality that have dogged him since his mother’s death. His search takes him to the farthest reaches of India, where he encounters a mysterious night market, almost freezes to death on a hike up the Himalayas, and finds himself in an ashram in a drought-stricken village in South India. As Max seeks answers to questions that have bedeviled him—can yogis walk on water and live for 200 years without aging? Can a flesh-and-blood man ever achieve nirvana?—he struggles to overcome his skepticism and the pull of family tugging him home. In an ultimate bid for answers, he embarks on a dangerous solitary meditation in a freezing Himalayan cave, where his physical and spiritual endurance is put to its most extreme test. By turns a gripping adventure story and a journey of tremendous inner transformation, The Yoga of Max's Discontent is a contemporary take on man's classic quest for transcendence.
Self-Publishing Made Simple
Author: April CoxPublisher:
ISBN: 9781737557012
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How to Be a Better Person
Author: Kate HanleyPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1507205279
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This fun, enlightening book features 401 everyday activities to help you become a better person and make a positive impact on the people around you. How to Be a Better Person is a unique and practical guide that can help you easily turn your good intentions into meaningful actions. Each activity serves as a daily inspiration for you to make a positive impact in your home, community, and relationships. With exercises designed to foster cheerfulness, kindness, generosity, gratitude, acceptance and inclusion, integrity, and honesty, you can learn how easy it is to be the person you’ve always wanted to be.
Sell Your Book on Amazon
Author: Brent SampsonPublisher: Outskirts Press, Inc.
ISBN: 1432701967
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
So You’d Like to… Become An Amazon Bestseller! Don’t wait. Publishing insider Brent Sampson reveals revolutionary advice guaranteed to increase your book sales on Amazon. Learn the powerful secrets used by successful Amazon authors every day. This informative and practical “how-to” guide shares new techniques that are proven to work. Solutions Revealed! Discover step-by-step methods for improving your exposure on Amazon and increasing your authority. Secrets Exposed! Increase your profitability by learning the secrets to short-discounting Amazon with just twenty percent Success Discovered! Learn top-secret tactics that earn authors tens-of-thousands of dollars in royalties every month Amazon Approved! Find, understand, and control every Amazon possibility for maximum book sales. Are you holding a manuscript in your hand that you wish Amazon was selling? Or do you already have a book on Amazon that you wish was selling better? In either case, Sell Your Book on Amazon will help you. You will experience what I have seen first-hand as the president of Outskirts Press – that marketing success on Amazon can be the difference between hundreds and tens-of-thousands of dollars a month. You will learn why self-publishing guru Dan Poynter says, “Bookstores are a lousy place to sell books.” In his foreword, he says publishing as if it is still the 20th century is for historians. Publishing in this new millennium is for writers. Are you a writer or historian? Sell Your Book on Amazon shows you how to publish and market your book in the 21st Century. Amazon provides a phenomenal and gigantic (global) platform from which to sell your book. In fact, the opportunities may seem almost too colossal! But now, Sell Your Book on Amazon unveils it all for the first time. This book provides an easy-to-understand approach to increase your book sales on Amazon by exploring the steps you can take immediately. Table of Contents Foreword by Dan Poynter Introduction: Amazon - A Brief History Chapter 1: Get Your Book Listed Chapter 2: AuthorConnect & Author Profile Pages Chapter 3: The Book Sales Page Chapter 4: Listmania! Chapter 5: So You’d Like to… Guides Chapter 6: Additional Amazon Possibilities Chapter 7: Pricing & Profitability Conclusion Resources Index As Penny C. Sansevieri of Author Marketing Experts says, “Finally! A book that helps you demystify Amazon. If you have a book to sell, you simply must own Sell Your Book on Amazon.” Why is increasing a book’s exposure important? Because readers have to learn about your book before they can buy it. Authors who know how to use Amazon’s own system and algorithms to their advantage sell more books simply because more people learn about their books (and therefore buy them!). Once a book finds success on Amazon, it appears higher in the search results, leading to MORE exposure and more sales, and so on. It’s the Amazon “virtuous circle” and the key to unlocking that brass ring is in your hands. Introducing the exclusive NEW TACTIC RANKING SYSTEM! Marketing tactics are only as valuable as the profits they generate. Sell Your Book on Amazon ranks every technique so you can quickly and efficiently locate the marketing secrets that will lead to superior results: *****Highly recommended. Receive the greatest exposure compared to time spent. **** Very recommended. An acceptable investment is required for a profitable return. *** Somewhat recommended. Check your profit margin. The expenditure may exceed the benefit. Do you know how to beat Amazon at their own game? Do you know how Amazon Marketplace listings can offer “55 used copies” of your book when you haven’t even sold that many? This book tells you how to do it all, plus so much more. It’s a tremendous value with a wealth of information at your fingertips.
Story Fix
Author: Larry BrooksPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1599639130
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Reinvigorate Your Fiction! You've written the first draft of your novel or screenplay, and you've released it into the world: to your critique group, to your most trusted beta readers, or even to an agent or an editor. But something's wrong. You're not getting the glowing response you had expected, or you might have even received a rejection. Your story is getting a "Meh..." when you had hoped for an "Amazing!" But have no fear--the piece you've sweated and bled over isn't dead on arrival. It just needs fixing. Story Fix is the answer to your revision needs. With practical techniques from critically acclaimed author and story coach Larry Brooks, you will learn how to: • Develop a story-fixing mind-set • Navigate the two essential realms of revision: story and execution • Evaluate your novel or screenplay against twelve crucial storytelling elements and essences. • Strengthen your concept and premise. • Punch up the dramatic tension, pacing, thematic weight, characterization, and more. • Align your story with proven structural principles. Filled with candid advice on the realities of the publishing world and helpful case studies of real authors who fixed their own stories, Story Fix isn't just about revision--it's about resurrection. Infuse your fiction with a much-needed jolt of electricity, and bring it back to life. "Larry Brooks is a superb storyteller and teacher. If anyone can fix your novel, it's him. Put this one on your desk and read it often." --Robert Dugoni, #1 Amazon and New York Times best-selling author of My Sister's Grave "Story Fix is the ultimate writer's companion for taking any manuscript to the next level. A staple for the beginner, a refresher for the pro." --Joe Moore, #1 Amazon and international best-selling co-author of The Blade and The Shield
How to Make Real Money Selling Books
Author: Brian JudPublisher: Square One Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 0757052134
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
The worldwide book market generates almost $90 billion annually, and more than half of those sales are made in non-bookstore outlets such as discount stores, airport shops, gift stores, supermarkets, and warehouse clubs. How to Make Real Money Selling Books provides a proven strategy for selling books to these enterprises. You will learn about developing a product strategy, conducting test marketing, contacting prospective buyers, promoting your product, selling to niche markets, and much, much more.
The Coaching Habit
Author: Michael Bungay StanierPublisher: Box of Crayons Press
ISBN: 0978440749
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Coaching is an essential skill for leaders. But for most busy, overworked managers, coaching employees is done badly, or not at all. They're just too busy, and it's too hard to change. But what if managers could coach their people in 10 minutes or less? In Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact. Coaching is an art and it's far easier said than done. It takes courage to ask a question rather than offer up advice, provide an answer, or unleash a solution. Giving another person the opportunity to find their own way, make their own mistakes, and create their own wisdom is both brave and vulnerable. It can also mean unlearning our ''fix it'' habits. In this practical and inspiring book, Michael shares seven transformative questions that can make a difference in how we lead and support. And, he guides us through the tricky part - how to take this new information and turn it into habits and a daily practice. -Brené Brown, author of Rising Strong and Daring Greatly Drawing on years of experience training more than 10,000 busy managers from around the globe in practical, everyday coaching skills, Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples' potential. He unpacks seven essential coaching questions to demonstrate how---by saying less and asking more--you can develop coaching methods that produce great results. - Get straight to the point in any conversation with The Kickstart Question - Stay on track during any interaction with The AWE Question - Save hours of time for yourself with The Lazy Question, and hours of time for others with The Strategic Question - Get to the heart of any interpersonal or external challenge with The Focus Question and The Foundation Question - Finally, ensure others find your coaching as beneficial as you do with The Learning Question A fresh, innovative take on the traditional how-to manual, the book combines insider information with research based in neuroscience and behavioural economics, together with interactive training tools to turn practical advice into practiced habits. Dynamic question-and-answer sections help identify old habits and kick-start new behaviour, making sure you get the most out of all seven chapters. Witty and conversational, The Coaching Habit takes your work--and your workplace--from good to great.
The Life Graduate
Author: Romney T NelsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780648681809
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
We all have LIFE MOMENTUM. At any one time, we are either moving closer or further away from what we truly want in life. The decisions we have made and the actions we have taken to this very moment have led to where you are RIGHT NOW, but are you ready to unlock your FULL POTENTIAL? Whether you have aspirations to start your own business, write a book, spend more time with your family, travel, improve your health and fitness or own a seven-figure property portfolio, The Life Graduate will show you the 'how'. Romney Nelson was inspired to create The Life Graduate when he identified a fundamental gap of life skills often not delivered in a practical way throughout teenage years and adulthood. The strategies and systems have been simplified to empower anyone to achieve whatever they want in life through the lessons taught in The Life Graduate. It's your personal 'lesson plan' that teaches you: How to master goal setting and plan your path to success How to take more than 1,000 micro-actions each year to achieve your dream goals How to develop and implement great daily habits to support your goals How to add an extra three months a year to your life to improve your mental and physical health, improve your knowledge and achieve your goals faster than you ever imagined How to tackle and overcome procrastination, fear and the limiting beliefs you hold. It's time RIGHT NOW to release your LIFE MOMENTUM!
Indies Unlimited: Authors' Snarkopaedia
Author: K. S. BrooksPublisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781480213425
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
In Volume One of the Authors' Snarkopaedia, sentences have been painstakingly crafted together using nouns, verbs and other words, bringing you paragraphs of text. These paragraphs flow into pages of expert tips, advice and insight for authors at all levels of the publication food chain. Any book can claim to offer this type of information, but they can't give you what sets the Indies Unlimited Authors' Snarkopaedia above the rest: the "je ne sais squat" of the high decorated staff of the Snarkology Department at the Indies Unlimited Online Academy. Their groundbreaking and empirical research over the years sheds new and snarkified light on subjects ranging from book publishing and marketing to the nuts and bolts of writing and technology. If you like information to grab you by the throat and smack you in the face, the Indies Unlimited Authors' Snarkopaedia is the reference book for you.
