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Writing a Book and Feeling Stuck? How to Break Through Three Common Challenges
It may come before you even write a word, or it may come well into your draft, but when it does, your progress completely stalls. Many aspiring authors have felt stuck at one point or another. And this feeling can prevent even the most motivated writer from completing their work-in-progress. The good news is there are ways around this terrible stuck feeling.
Is Your New Year’s Resolution to Write a Book?
Every New Year’s, thousands of aspiring business and self-help authors resolve to make this the year they get their book done. I’ve heard that 80 percent of people want to write a book-that’s a lot of people.

When and How to Copyright Your Book
Copyrighting your book is an important step in the process of becoming an author because it helps protect against people taking or using your work without permission. But how do you get a copyright? And when should you file for one? If you’re unsure about how to protect your work, consider the following suggestions.
Just Starting to Write? How to Get Help and Improve Your Writing Skills
The other day I was talking to a woman who was frustrated by the fact that she'd given her friend the first three chapters of her book to read and offer feedback, and weeks later her friend still hadn't read the pages. This was the woman's first book and she hadn't written anything since high school.
Promote Your Book on Twitter in 10 Minutes a Day
If you're marketing your books online, then you've probably heard of Twitter. It was all the rage last year in social media, and millions of people have joined this micro-blogging community. With so many users, it's a great place to find book readers. These tips will help you get the word out about your book without tweeting your day away.
Chapter by Chapter: Ten Self-Editing Questions Every Writer Needs to Consider
Congratulations, you've finished your first draft! Take a day or two to celebrate your accomplishment. Then, get back to work-you have a manuscript to edit. Every writer needs an editor, but all writers can use the following ten self-editing questions to think critically and objectively about their own work.
Five Tips for Marketing Your Book on Facebook
Millions of people visit Facebook every day, making it one of the best viral marketing opportunities for authors online. It’s easy to set up and maintain pages specifically for your book, you can find lots of traffic for your blog or web site, and it’s free, at least for now. Consider these five tips to establish your book’s Facebook presence.
How to Develop Your Best-Selling Book Idea
Everyone has at least one book in them-I firmly believe that. But bookstore shelves are packed with titles, all competing for readers’ attention. So how can you tell if your book idea is ready for the competitive publishing business?

Make Your Book Personal; Engage Readers with the Story of Your Experience
If you're writing a business, self-help, or other instructional book, then it may not seem important to share information about your personal experiences. The purpose of your book is to give people strategies and tips they can use, right? In reality, including your personal story, if you have one, not only makes it more powerful and personal, but it also makes the book unique because it comes directly from you.

How to Develop the Writing Habit-Even if You Don’t Have Time to Write
Writing takes time, which isn't easy to find. Work, kids, housework all get in the way. But these simple steps can help you write more often and with better results.
Seven Ways to Add Value to Your Self-Help or Business Book
When you’re working on a book, the question, "Will people actually want to buy this?" inevitably comes up. Although in most cases this is your inner critic trying to sideswipe your creative efforts, the question is valid. Will people actually see the value in the information you’re providing? To make your book more marketable, consider the following seven ways to add value to your book.

How to Write Better and Faster -- And Have More Fun Doing It!
Every writer has different habits, unique strengths, and mistakes they always make in their work. Knowing your own habits, flaws, mistakes, and strengths can help you compensate for your limitations, and work with your own natural strengths and rhythms. To get to know your writer-self a little better, consider these three areas of your work.
Do You Need to Hire a Ghostwriter to Write Your Book?
When a person with little or no writing experience decides they want to write a book, their first instinct is often to find someone with writing skills to do it for them. It sounds easy enough, right? You can't write, so you just get someone who can. However, a lot more goes into finding and working with a ghostwriter than most people think. This article covers the basics.
Five Reasons to Stop Procrastinating and Get Your Book Done
Sharing what you know in a book helps everyone. But if you have a business to run, a job to do, or a household to maintain, then putting off writing a book is easy-even if you really want to become a published author. If you've been procrastinating writing your book, consider these benefits of getting it done.
Some Books Don't Work! How to Write a Book that Grows Your Business
You've probably heard all this before: writing a book is one of the most powerful marketing tools available to coaches, consultants, speakers, and professionals. But not all books work as well as they could.

How to Find Your Book Writing Rhythm
Writing a book often takes longer than anticipated because many writers don't have a process or ritual that helps them work efficiently. All experienced writers develop a rhythm to their work with practice and experience. They do things to become more efficient and productive. They understand how they work, when they work best, and the different phases of the writing process-and they accomplish more as a result.

Write a Book One Piece at a Time
Breaking down the task of writing your book into a series of smaller jobs and assigning a topic to each section is often a more effective way to begin than trying to figure out the whole book at once-it breaks the process into specific tasks.

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Marketing Your Writing: The Basics of Selling Your Book
Marketing is important for all writers who hope to sell their work—whether that means books or articles or writing skills. I used to work for a book publishing company, and for several months I was in charge of marketing my boss’s book. It was a writing reference book, actually, and although I had no idea what I was doing when I took over the project, I learned fast and had a lot of fun doing it.
How to Develop Your Book’s Structure
A man came to me last week because he needed help writing his book. He told me that he’s had this project on his to-do list for years, but he just couldn’t seem to get started. He’s literally been staring at the task—start writing my book—almost every day, and when he came to me, he still hadn’t done it.

When and How to Get Feedback on Your Book-in-Progress
If you’re writing a book, eventually you need to get feedback on your writing skills, the material itself, and whether or not your goals were accomplished in the manuscript. After all, the goal of writing a book is to communicate with readers, and if no one has read your book at press time, you’ll never know whether your message is perceived the way you intend it to be perceived. You can read it yourself over and over again, but you won’t be able to get a sense of how others interpret your book without letting someone else read it.

Publish a Book and Leave Your Competition Behind
By writing a book, you fit all the pieces of your expertise neatly into place. Your insights and lessons learned combine to fill your book’s pages resulting in an alluring record of your current value proposition. While much of this can also be said about writing articles, a book ups the ante, strutting your stuff thoroughly, glamorously and uniquely.
Where to Start Writing Your Book
Writing a book is such a big project that many aspiring authors have no idea where to start. If you’ve been thinking about writing a book, you can use the following three steps to turn your thoughts into action!

Hello, World!
This is my first entry into my blog! Welcome to ‘Sell Like a Woman’. The creation of this site came about as a result of an idea I had about putting a book together. I am writing a book called “Sell like a woman” which I want to publish in 2007. My aim in writing this book is to highlight the key qualities, approaches and attitudes displayed and used by successful sales women.

Five Reasons to Stop Procrastinating and Get Your Book Done
Sharing what you know in a book helps everyone. But if you have a business to run, a job to do, or a household to maintain, then putting off writing a book is easy-even if you really want to become a published author. If you've been procrastinating writing your book, consider these benefits of getting it done.
Your Book Won't Succeed Without It--Seriously
As writers, we tend to think about writing and what it takes to write a book. But what about reading a book? When you ask someone to read your book, you’re asking them to set aside other things they could be doing--reading something else, hanging out with their kids, or whatever--and spend ten or so hours with you and your thoughts. That’s a pretty serious request. So how serious do you take your writing?
How Much Does it Really Cost to Write and Publish a Book?
When an aspiring author is thinking about writing and publishing their book, the question of cost inevitably comes up. All books are different, though, so asking how much it costs to publish a book is like asking how much a house or a car costs. The price depends on the book itself. With that said, I've done some research to put together the following list of expenses you should budget for when writing and publishing your book.
When Writing a Nonfiction Book, Don't Put the Cart Before the Horse
What's the point of writing a book? Publishing it. In the end, that's what we're all after because writing is about sharing our ideas and knowledge. However, although publication is the ultimate goal, focusing too heavily on that--particularly when your book idea isn't fully formed, let alone written--can prevent you from ever getting it done.

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