There are 3 points to successful publishing. 1. Do Your Study. 2. Assemble the Tools. 3. Clear Your Mind.
There are many good books on how to publish. Of course, I consider my own to be the best (even if it undersells some of the others.)
Reason being - you can start from next to nothing, needing only an Internet connection. All free tools ready for the download. LibreOffice, Sigil, Gimp, Calibre.
You also have to study what makes a good book and what you think you are doing in this heady world of publishing.
They are all interlocked, and will improve with use and application.
Of course, I cheated. And that makes me a scammer? Not really. You see, I spent 3 months learning what there was to build ebooks from free tools by downloading and reading and testing what was out there. Of course, I also went down some very false trails led by celebrity-types (see "J'APE.")
Earlier than that, I was seriously scammed by a bunch who made me agree to not talk about them - but they've pretty much disappeared these days, as their crimes caught up with them...
But I spent years learning graphic design, and more years learning web design. So I had a head start when I started self-publishing. (Oh, and I was publishing on Lulu years before these epub's hit the modern scene - they just accelerated my income.)
In all this publishing I found, not too oddly, that publishing - not writing - is where the money is. I now have 173 books up on Google Play alone, which is close to what I have on iTunes, Nook, and Kobo. (Amazon and Smashwords, well, not so much. They don't like public domain or PLR.)
While one book I re-published (re-titled, and re-covered) is just now finally starting to take off on Amazon, for months I was making twice or more on my other distributors than there.
Writing is what brings you bliss.
Publishing is what pays your bills.
Know those two. Your head will have to be in the game of writing. I suggest Dorothea Brande's "Becoming A Writer" and Stephen King's "On Writing." Once I get some time, there are some other books in the public domain about writing that I want to bring out again - an essay by Poe, for instance. Those two books will get you writing well.
Both King and Brande tell how to set your schedule and simply crank out some writing.
Part of your schedule has to do with publishing. Marketing your books - making them discoverable - is part of publishing. It's not all this fol-de-rol about having huge social networks. Yes, you network. Yes, you take care of your audience. Yes, you answer emails.
But you work smarter, not harder, or longer.
I cover some basic points of this with my "Just Publish." You are going to have to spend some time in the trenches to get your own world sorted out and forge your own success.
This post has been boiling around for awhile. And now you have it.
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Reason for this sudden out-pouring is that I'm updating my site with a new look. Actually, I've found I can move it to Blogger and get both free hosting and probably some better SEO as a result. (I owe you a technical background post "how-to" once the dust settles - on a different blog.)
SEO doesn't really matter. It's a dying scene, anyway. Spammers have taken care of that, plus evolution in general.
What makes your success is plenty of writing, and plenty of perseverance.
What makes your sales is plenty of distributors. Do NOT put all your eggs in one basket, unless you are going to watch that basket very, very carefully. In general, Amazon is a trap. Underperformers are buried in the muck at the bottom. If your book sells regularly, consistently, at low volumes, then it will move up. If you have a huge following, you can then become an "overnight" success. (But that fact doesn't make the celebrities any less a fake.)
The point, which Napoleon Hill makes very well, is to have your Vision (his "Burning Desire") and persevere regardless of anyone and anything in your environment.
That last statement is what this site is all about.
You and your success.
All the books you see here have that one goal in mind: to help you with your success.
That's the Golden Rule. Help others to get any help you need. Help open-handedly, not ever expecting a return, and everything you want or need comes to you even faster and more abundantly.
Just the way life is. Life isn't a hard-scrabble existence. It's a constant joy.
As featured on "The Secret" DVD! Originally a bestseller published in 1926 and now seeing a resurgence.
Robert Collier faced a slow, painful, and certain death due to illnesses which modern medicine had no remedy. Researching into the "miracle cures' which New Thought healers of that period were routinely achieving, he studied and researched their materials - to not only resolve his own condition, but to restore his body to radiant health, going on to apply those same books and truths to his business and career.
Today, his is known as one of the all-time best copywriters. While this book is less-known, it is still a masterpiece of insight into the human condition - a handbook for solving human problems in money, relationships, and also health.
You can change your life and eliminate those limits which have been holding you back. Based on a study of hundreds of classic works, this book lays out the secrets to personal health, loving relationships, and limitless wealth – all in a modern, readable format.
You can understand and apply the simple laws of this universe, and then use them to improve any facet of your life.
NEW!Just released - two books on how to write ebooks, publish them, and get them selling!
While these books cover how to write, publish, and get your books selling on line, the first is a non-fiction how-to which tells you how to get your book out of your head, into a published book, and the key techniques to get it selling on Amazon (plus some rare inside tips on how to leave your competition in the dust. But the emphasis is how you can do it for low-cost or nothing besides the time
you put in.
The second book is a quirky little parody of what celebrities can do in this space - just because. Click on either book to go to their page, which are both filled with tips and tricks on how to actually succeed in self-publishing.
Hint: it's not what most of the books out there are telling you "really works". (Another hint: the second one is a free download...)
We've added 2012's books and all the new ebook versions.
Please enjoy - and feel free to leave reviews where you buy your books...
New ebooks!
Recently we were able to convert many of our earlier books to the epub standard so that it would be available on iBookstore, and Barnes & Noble, as well as Lulu. In certain instances, we've also ported
these to the Amazon Kindle. Please enjoy.
released December 7, 2012 Learn to write and tell stories that keep your
readers begging for more. This new version combines the classic works of Dorothea Brande (Becoming A Writer) with Marie Shedlock (The Art of the Story-Teller). Together, they address the underlying issues all fiction writers have - how to routinely write stories which are riveting to the reader and keep them coming back for the next installment. A reissue of a classic work originally published in 1934 on writing and the creative process, Becoming a Writer recaptures the excitement of Dorothea Brande's creative-writing classroom of the 1920s. Marie Shedlock examines the real secrets behind telling a story that engages the audience - not only
capturing and communicating the drama, but also how to select and craft the story which keeps them riveted to the very end. Dr. Robert C. Worstell paired these classics to give the fiction writer the needed tools in one single volume for ready reference and use: tabbed, dog-eared, and highlighted. Available in paperback and epub
released December 16, 2012 Here's the secret in 3 steps:
1. Suspend disbelief as you read the following:
2. "We Become What We Think About." - Earl Nightingale
3. Then, decide that it's true.
Now, the rest of your life, you'll be testing this for yourself. You may be asking questions like these: - Can you actually change what you think about?
- Do positive thoughts create a positive personal environment?
- By being critical of anything or anyone around you actually improve conditions?
- Is your health affected by negative thinking? You'll find continuing instances of how this is true and how it might not be. You'll be “haunted” by this singular thought, although the results won't make you lose sleep – instead,
you'll awake with fresh inspirations from time to time about how to live your life even better than you are now. Because you've just started on a journey which has no definite end. As Earl Nightingale once said:"Start today. You have nothing to lose - but you have your whole life to win." Available as PDF, trade and pocket paperback, epub, mobi.
Does the dreamer dream? Or is the dreamer dreamed? Some hold that life is a dream and you awake to yet another. In this novel, a young man finds people trying to control his dreams - and his life. However, all are subject to the same rules they seek to break...
This story combines elements of runaway sub-tropic adventure with advanced technology, as well as metaphysical super-realities, all rolled into a fast-paced narrative to keep you riveted in fascinated
reading.
Robert C. Worstell is more widely known for his many non-fiction books and publications based on his life-long research into self-help.
This New Age novel is his latest work and continues explorations into the human condition.
Available in paperback, PDF, and ebook.
- Available on Smashwords for all ereaders
-Also available from Amazon
Once you're enlightened, things can get funny. Life takes on a completely different meaning as you don't look at things the same way.
In our modern world, this can be almost unnerving - as you don't react to things as others do around you and have few or no pressures on you (only as much as you want, actually).
So I set out to write a guide to modern living, but of course it didn't take the usual approach. Because there's a Zen approach which beckons... And this book listens. Each piece is told in a Q and A
style, as if the young student approaches an elder Master with his questions and is sometimes educated, sometimes teased, but always answered.
Please enjoy this. Please throw your mind away and listen with your
heart.
97% of what you find on the Internet about online marketing is bunk.
It may have worked for someone under certain special situations, but it probably won't work for most people.
What people call marketing itself is a crock.
You have to go back to the historical origins and operations of markets in order to understand why the Internet is wising up shoppers and making it nearly impossible for "college-trained marketing experts"
to actually make any money online.If you aren't doing what you love, and what you know will actually help people - you are doomed to failure, regardless of any fast or hard bucks you make right off the
bat.
Here's a new idea for you: All the Freedom, Happiness, and Peace you want can already be found within you. The only things keeping these from showing up are the mental habits you have. And it's just too easy to get rid of these. If you don't have all the wealth, abundance, loving relationships, good health, or anything else you want in your life, you don't have to look further than your own thoughts.
But these are easy to solve. You can simply learn to control and quiet your own mind.
Follow these authors: Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, Wallace Wattles, Charles Haanel, Earl Nightingale, Max Freedom Long, Lester Levenson - as they show you how simple it is to get all these thoughts quieted. And then everything else you could possibly want simply starts showing up in your life!
For the first time, these teachers' secrets have been assembled for your use. Will you take the offered hand?
Through all the books I've studied and lectures listened to - as well as my own research and tests down this line — it has become very clear to me that we each already have all the Freedom, Happiness, and Peace we could ever want. It's just sitting there waiting for us to recognize its presence in our nature. Just waiting for us to "let our own light shine."
That's the secret people have been looking for all this time, the one which the self-help guru's will sell you unlimited books, CD's, video's, and personal consultation to help you find. But I think, like Dorothy with her slippers, you eventually find that you've had the solution all along. And also like Dorothy, you have to make the journey before you’ll believe it’s that simple.
The trick is this one, simple datum: The only things holding you back are just those limits you have accepted. This book contains the extremely simple methods to letting your own Freedom, Peace and
Happiness shine out to help your dreams become reality.
new edition released 9 Feb 2010 Arriving in Hawaii in 1917, psychology-trained teacher Max Freedom Long was fascinated by tales of the kahunas and their ability to heal at a distance, walk on barely-cooled lava with bare feet, and even raise the dead. However, no native would tell him the secret behind these miracles - which were commonplace in the backwater areas he
travelled to. Study as he might, he ultimately had to return to the States, unable to find out how this ancient belief-system could work these miracles.
In 1935, he got inspiration from a dream and began to crack this code... And now the secrets are yours to learn - if you will walk in his footsteps. Two books are included from Long's pioneer work which
has brought Huna to the Western world.
These have been edited and republished in the hope that you and yours are able to continue his work and make miracles commonplace in our modern world again. Available in paperback.
How do you quit being a victim to every slick telemarketer out there? Is there anyway to see a scam and get out of their way? I've been there and done that. There are reasons people have been trained into being dupes. And all these reasons can be un-trained as well - if you know how. I wrote this book based on the research I did to dig myself out of the hole I had been scammed into. I decided not to get mad or get even – just get my money back somehow, write up what I had encountered, and then move on. And writing this book is part of moving on.
While I've put the bulk of this data into several blogs, ebooks, presentations, papers, and so on, I've decided to cobble it all together into a single book so that people can get this data without having to go through what I did. Our job here is not just getting our own lives free from scammers and rip off artists, but it’s making this planet we live on a bit safer place for everyone else.
