Really Simple Writing & Publishing Series

The Secret to Self-Publishing on Amazon is said to be: "You Need to First Be A Celebrity To Succeed At Anything". This parody is a sarcastic look at how you can be an "overnight" success - by making it impossible for anyone else to succeed as you set the bar astronomically high. Learn the 3 Parts to Real eBook Publishing How to write a book - real quick, shallow, ghost-written. How to publish your book - hire someone to do it for cheap, like putting their name on the cover. How to sell a book online - using your devoted, Kool-Aid-drinking fan-base to suck-up and give you fake 5-star reviews without having read the book. Obviously, this is a work of satire and has nothing to do with the real world. And any resemblance to a currently successful bestseller is just a happy coincidence. (Right.) Solve the Key Factors Which Have Kept You From Publishing Your Book. Your life is out of Control because you didn't devote yourself to learning celebrity-skills. You want to get Approval for everything you do - but that's just the half of it. Find how celebrities can't live without it, so self-publishing puts "Vanity" back into the name. You want to have the Security, but really you need to stick to that day job and leave all the PR to PR Artistes who appear on late night info-mercials to sell over-priced junk. And you want to Join the group of successful Independent Authors, but except for a few cheaters who stumble into it by accident, the system is rigged to sell only celebrity's books (and cute dressed-up-cat-picture books).Tools you will find inside this guide: How to wreck your life and get fired for spending too much time on your book, then falling asleep at work - repeatedly. How to ruin your family relationships by getting every relative you know to loan you money and/or write suck-up reviews of your book (and like, and plus, and tweet about it to their friends.) Lose any certainty you ever had about how good you are as a writer, because some celebrity comes along with their version of how it "really" works, so no one listens to your advice ever again. Discover how a celebrity can suck the air out of a room by just showing up, and how their interviews and PR stunts take the limelight away from struggling unknown indie authors. Get access to a "Publishing Success Blueprint" which will make sure you stick to your day job and never try some wacky creative idea ever again! And find how the entire publishing industry deck is still stacked against you, so you might as well never try.New Revision! Contains actually helpful tips! (Don't tell Richard this, but I included some tactics, strategies, and tips from later research. What you can find out, he doesn't need to know...) Download Your Copy Scroll Up Now and Click Buy Now Button.

How to Save Time, Earn More, Work Less by Publishing Backwards?!? (Note: See the bonuses in the back of this book, along with audio to each chapter.) The situation that most starting authors have (and I've seen the same thing you've run into) is: How the hell do you get from here to there? You hear and (are constantly told) about these outrageously successful authors. But only a very small few percent of people actually achieve that. If you want to be successful you've got to study success. What I found by studying all these guys that are making six- and seven-figures as an author is that most of them have been starting out with books and ending up with courses. (Which makes the author more money: a $3.99 book or a $399.00 course?) The beginning author, though, has to spend a lot of time and money they don't have in order to do that. So most authors fail to make a livable income. And as if we don't have enough problems, how is it a solution to work backwards? Book as an Idea Container Let's go back to basics. Books are an idea container. They aren't just an e-book, a paperback, and so on. The one set of content is pushed out through all these different versions: e-books, paperbacks, hardbacks, audio books, audio CDs, and also -- courses. The great part about that is courses sell the books and the books sell the courses. The Sensible Approach That Few If Any Use Here'e the secret: 1) record the course, 2) transcribe the audio, 3) edit it into your book. All types of books. You've got the video, audio, text, and graphics. So turn around and publish that coure and also every version you can. Why not? Too simple, right? Also mostly unknown is that you can do this from your own home-office without having to buy expensive programs or services. How can you save time, work less, and earn more? And still publish great books? The secret how-to's and steps are inside this book (along with bonuses and audio.) Get Your Copy Now.

Content Structure for Flash Fiction has never been so simple and fast. What if all story ideas were able to be boiled down to a single formula? Wycliffe A. Hill had this idea in the 1930's when no less than Cecil B. DeMille rejected one of his stories because "it had a good narrative, but no drama." This led Hill to research what made a dramatic story. That study lead to a 1920's author who claimed (based on even older research) that there were only 36 possible conflicts through all dramatic works. Diving into the problem that the growing movie industry had for volume treatments to feed their industry, Hill's name became synonymous with what Slate called the "Hollywood schlock machine." But Hill never intended it to become a mass-production device for plots. The original "Robot" he produced was to explore the idea of formulaic basis for stories. Not too long after, Joseph Campbell produced his "Hero With a Thousand Faces" which prescribed the monomyth as a base for all stories. Chris Vogler then championed this idea through Hollywood. And the Star Wars saga, as well as multiple Disney hits followed that generic model. Hill himself cautioned against using the results on its own, but to use it as inspiration to ferret out new combinations of stories never before attempted. He claimed that author output had become hackneyed as they had been repeatedly explosed to the same few element combinations over and over. For Flash Fiction, the work is even more daunting, as it's not a question of filling in more conflict, action, or romance by adding words. The author must start out with a well-developed synopsis and then whittle that down, carving out the core story and limited action into a very tiny wordage. Every single word has to now forward the plot, character, or emotional response of their thousand-word story. The Plot Wizard now assists with generating a dramatic synopsis, so that the inspiration and perspiration of the author can go to work. Research into the plot problems of the short story also unearthed another classic from the 1920's, "The Plot of the Short Story." Its author, Henry A. Philips, also dissected the problems and solutions to short story plots, and excerpts from his book are included. The object of this book is more for education of the author in the basics of how to string a plot together, and perhaps a tentative solution to his "writer's block." At any rate, it gives some very amusing stories. In fact, Hill mentions that it can also produce comedies. Robert Silverberg reviewed Hill's work and recommended: "Pick one up, follow the instructions, write your story. You might just find that a grand literary career is unfolding for you in a wondrous, magical way."

Why This - Why Now? My muse made me write this. Just for you. You're welcome. Disclaimer: I've been publishing for over a decade and writing for years before that. Self-publishing was started in self-defense against the constant nagging of that muse mentioned above. Meanwhile, I've enjoyed financial freedom for several years, meaning I fired my last boss some time back. My books started paying my bills and since then have mostly improved in sales from month to month. I live within my means while I increase those means. The point of this was to do a final "brain dump" to get this data out in a single package of data outlining the essential points of a writing system you can follow.  And it's been called "concise" and "easy to follow" by my advanced readers.  What it doesn't have is a bunch of listicals or authoritative-sounding link-bait.  The data that supports this book is in another dozen short books I've written and published on the subject. (Check the "bonus" sections from and back to get access to them.) Or you can simply look around wherever you get your ebooks, as I probably have the copies there as well.  I make my living from writing and publishing, rinse, repeat. But I don't make a living from telling people how to write and publish. Generally, I give my hard-won knowledge mostly away for free (if you now where to look - hint: that "bonus" section again...) In this short book, you get the outline and the bare-knuckle opinion of who I think is worth a damn to learn from. Just because I've spent a lot of time and money on courses that weren't worth it, doesn't mean you should have to. And there are some wild theories that no one else has proved, but you can be my guest. They work for me. They help me make sense of self-publishing. And I'm about to do a couple of major tests of these, but wanted to let you know in case I don't surface from those adventures.  Meanwhile, it's over to you. Have fun. Leave a review if you like it. Buy my other books if its worth something to you.  Cheers!

How to Write A Novel Each Week The trick is in coming up with enough plots. A wildly prolific, early 20th century pulp writer, William Wallace Cook was a writing machine.  While he set the bar for pulp fiction, he was also passionate about the process of writing itself. Keeping notes on index cards, he was able to distill the process of plotting down to a simple, but thorough manual, Plotto. Alfred Hitchcock was an early student, so was Earl Stanley Gardner. Robert Silverberg also gave a great review of the book.  When Cook published Plotto in finished from, he recieved feedback from readers who still could not work out how to use his massive book from the instructions in the front of it. In 1934, he came out with a seven-part lesson series that simplified the learning curve.  "Plotto is a new method of plot SUGGESTION for writers of CREATIVE fiction. Let us, here at the beginning of our course, place the emphasis on the word SUGGESTION, as well as on that other word, CREATIVE. In later lessons of the course we shall go more deeply into this matter of the interpretation of suggestion.  "For the present, however, it is merely necessary to note that the interpretation of suggestion results in creative work only when the constructive imagination builds with material hewn from the quarry of individual experience. In other words, we achieve Originality; and Originality is the ideal of the Plotto method of plot construction through the interpretation of plot suggestion." This point many miss is that these plotting generators are best used as methods of inspiration, not as a subsitute for a writer's perspiration. While many author's rave about Plotto, it is perhaps better to use it as a learning tool. Certainly having a copy on hand when the muse has left you, the deadline looms and your private hell of Writer's Block seems camped in your office.  This edition includes the Plotto Chart of Masterplots With Interchangeable Clauses for quick reference. Simply recombing these three A, B, and C Causes (Protagonist, Action/Crisis, Climax/Resolution) can themselves trigger a valuable inspiration that can get your creative juices flowing.  If you have Plotto, and don't use it much - or would like to learn the basics of plotting, this book is a key learning manual for any author.  Get Your Copy Today.