The 6 Steps to Breaking Through Your Issues and Becoming a NY Times Bestselling Author

By Anna David

Have you ever had any of the following thoughts about your writing career?

“I don’t have the right degree”
“I’m too old”
“I’ve already been rejected a lot—it will probably keep happening”
“I don’t have the right connections”
“I don’t have enough time”

If you've had these or any other self-defeating thoughts about launching your writing career—or you are simply overwhelmed by all the publishing information out there and don't know where to start—this is the solution. After breaking down the most common fears authors grapple with, David walks the reader through how to write a professional essay, set up a website, increase the traffic of the site, get published in and on mainstream publications, write a book proposal and land an agent. Using the steps she took to establish herself first as a contributor to The New York Times, The LA Times, Playboy, Vanity Fair, Cosmo, Self, Redbook, Buzzfeed, The Huffington Post, Salon and many others and then to become an on-air contributor on The Today Show, The Talk, Inside Edition and hundreds of other TV shows on CNN, CBS, Fox News, MTV, VH1 and E, among others, David offers a no-nonsense guide to dominating the publishing and media landscapes. The author of six books and Editor-in-Chief of the addiction and recovery site AfterPartyMagazine, David shows aspiring writers precisely how they can build a career like hers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anna David
• Release date: Sep 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370091140

Anna David

Anna David is the New York Times-bestselling author of the novels Party Girl and Bought and the non-fiction books Falling For Me, Reality Matters, By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There and True Tales of Lust and Love. She’s been published in The New York Times, The LA Times, Details, Playboy, Women’s Health, The New York Post, Premiere, People, Us Weekly, Maxim, Vanity Fair, Cosmo, Redbook, Self, Stuff, TV Guide, Teen Vogue, Variety, The Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, The Daily Beast and Salon, among many others, and has appeared repeatedly on The Today Show, Hannity, Attack of the Show, Dr. Drew, Red Eye, The Talk and numerous other programs on Fox News, NBC, CBS, MTV, VH1 and E. David is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of AfterPartyMagazine, a website focused on addiction and recovery, which she runs with a staff of 20 full-time employees and freelancers. She also hosts the podcasts AfterPartyPod and You’ve Got Issues (with Anna David) and is a coach who speaks at colleges across the country about relationships, addiction and recovery.

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The 6 Steps to Breaking Through Your Issues and Becoming a NY Times Bestselling Author

By Anna David

THE 6 STEPS TO BREAKING THROUGH YOUR ISSUES AND BECOMING A NY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR

Copyright © 2016 by Anna David. All rights reserved.

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Contents

Introduction

1) Get in the Right Frame of Mind

2) Find Your Focus and Start Writing

3) Create Your Website—And Then Blow up the Traffic

4) Get Published on the Biggest Sites in the World

5) Write and Sell a Killer Book Proposal

6) Keep the Faith

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