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Who is Writing for Online Cash for? It's for anyone who senses the enormous potential in writing for the online world. If you'd like to make a career as a writer, or if you wish you could make enough money from writing to write fulltime, this book is for you.
You won't find any rehashed, pie-in-the-sky info in this 100-page book. It's based on my own experiences, and those of other successful writers. The info in this book WORKS. And of course, my guarantee to you is: contact me at any time, for advice and guidance.
Here's a snippet from the prologue about why I wrote this book:
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Most of all, I hope that this book will give you confidence in your skills as a writer, and the confidence to market your work with persistence and determination. I'd like you to begin to see yourself as more than a writer --- as a promoter and an innovator as well.
Most writers are traditionalists. They lack self-confidence. They want desperately to do things in the 'proper' way, whatever that is.
This approach, of doing things the way they've always been done, is why so few writers make a good living from their skill with words.
Want an example? Hang out in any discussion group for aspiring novelists. More time will be spent discussing manuscript format, than anything else. Times New Roman or Courier New? How many lines and words to the page? How long should a chapter be? Aspiring novelists worry about dressing the baby, before the baby exists.
Here's another example. In marketing guides for writers, print magazine guidelines insist that a SAE (Stamped Addressed Envelope) accompany postal mail proposals to magazines. Why on earth ---? Where does this submissive writers' attitude come from? You'll never hear from the magazine if they're not interested in your proposal. And if they are interested, they'll call you, or email you.
I hope this book will give you the confidence to decide how YOU want to do things.
Trust me, no one is keeping score, and no one will object about how you choose to run your writing business. In a career of almost 25 years, I've never had any editorial comment on how I formatted a typescript, and I've never, ever included a SAE.
I'll be encouraging you to be creative, and to work out your own methods of writing and selling. I'll encourage you to approach markets you've never considered. I'll encourage you to think of yourself as a business person and free agent, with products to create and sell, and with skills to learn, and to sell.
I'll be encouraging you to develop your own loyal following of readers. With your own following of readers, you're completely independent. Your only loyalty is to those readers, to give them what they want.
And, if you develop your own following of readers, who read your work in an ezine, in an ebook, or on a subscription site, you won’t have any problems gaining interest from major publishers if you decide to go the traditional marketing route.
You may even decide against traditional publishing, because you'll make more money selling your own work. You do the math. Let's say it takes you a month or six weeks to write an ebook. You sell the ebook for $40. You sell 100 or 200 of them. Then you write another eight ebooks this year. That's nine ebooks, selling around 150 copies of each, at around $40 each.
You'll make a tidy sum, working from home, and not working particularly hard. Becoming an independent writer pays.
To gain that independence, you need to focus on two major areas. You need to create regularly, and you also need to promote regularly.
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