Stop writing books nobody reads: The dangerously effective way to write and publish a book that people read and refer

Stop writing books nobody reads: The dangerously effective way to write and publish a book that people read and refer

Author: Debbie Jenkins

Publisher: Intellectual Perspective Press

Published: 2022-10-31

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1908770287

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When you’re trying to reach your target audience effectively, nothing beats a well-written business book. But it’s also tough to get right. Poorly written business books litter the virtual bookshelves. Your book needs to be so interesting the reader devours it, and then wants the next one. As moreish as the next Netflix series. Bitesize, useful, life changing content. Atomic, valuable, business-growing books. Built around your expertise and their most important problem. After more than twenty years of helping clients turn their thoughts into things, coupled with my engineering background and love of constraints (not that kind!), I have come to the conclusion that the only way to turn your thoughts into things, and get your ideas out into the world is to: Make the ideas atomic – the smallest workable unit (a Minimum Valuable Asset®) Have a proven system that works to produce the “thing” (this book for books) Set a constraint – time, money, resources – and be accountable to the constraint Iterate and improve yourself, as well as the process. Many people don’t get their ideas turned into things (books written) because they skip an element in the process, reinvent the process or don’t even have a process to start with. When you have the process you can turn your thoughts into many different things. This book gives you the process so you can write your book that will be read and referred! To write a book that people read & refer: Make sure there's a business case before investing your time & money Focus on what the reader needs to hear not what you want to say Write value not volume Use a framework for the process, not for the idea Choose yourself, not the publisher Produce a book that markets itself You'll find all that and more inside... Learn how to accomplish your author brand-building goals and create an outstanding book that is virtually guaranteed to be picked up, and read.


Stop Writing Books Nobody Reads

Stop Writing Books Nobody Reads

Author: Debbie Jenkins

Publisher:

Published: 2022-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781908770271

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When you're trying to reach your target audience effectively, nothing beats a well-written business book. But it's also tough to get right. Poorly written business books litter the virtual bookshelves. Your book needs to be so interesting the reader devours it, and then wants the next one. As moreish as the next Netflix series. Bitesize, useful, life changing content. Atomic, valuable, business-growing books. Built around your expertise and their most important problem. After more than twenty years of helping clients turn their thoughts into things, coupled with my engineering background and love of constraints (not that kind!), I have come to the conclusion that the only way to turn your thoughts into things, and get your ideas out into the world is to: Make the ideas atomic - the smallest workable unit (a Minimum Valuable Asset(R)) Have a proven system that works to produce the "thing" (this book for books) Set a constraint - time, money, resources - and be accountable to the constraint Iterate and improve yourself, as well as the process. Many people don't get their ideas turned into things (books written) because they skip an element in the process, reinvent the process or don't even have a process to start with. When you have the process you can turn your thoughts into many different things. This book gives you the process so you can write your book that will be read and referred! To write a book that people read & refer: Make sure there's a business case before investing your time & money Focus on what the reader needs to hear not what you want to say Write value not volume Use a framework for the process, not for the idea Choose yourself, not the publisher Produce a book that markets itself You'll find all that and more inside... Learn how to accomplish your author brand-building goals and create an outstanding book that is virtually guaranteed to be picked up, and read.


The Dragon Hammer

The Dragon Hammer

Author: Tony Daniel

Publisher: Baen Books

Published: 2016-07-05

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1625795092

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WULF'S SAGA BEGINS Evil from the dawn of time is on the verge of domination—but Wulf von Dunstig figured none of that mattered to him. What could he do about it? After all, he was basically nobody—the sixteen-year-old third son of a duke destined for an uneventful life as a ranger. But when destiny comes calling, it turns out there is only Wulf to answer. After a devastating invasion of his native land, Wulf must rally the peaceful valley of Shenandoah. He must free his family and his land from the grip of intruders controlled by vampiric evil. It’s time to grow up. It’s time to fight for what is right. It’s time to wield the Dragon Hammer. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Lexile Score: 680 About The Dragon Hammer: “A fun and fast-paced adeventure of a young man coming of age in a well-realized Tolkienesque world. The emphasis is on wonder—and courage—though there's plenty of magic also.”—David Drake, author of best-selling Lord of the Isles fantasy series About Tony Daniel: “[D]azzling stuff.”—New York Times Book Review “Remember his name, and keep watching for whatever he does.”—Roger Zelazny “Daniel proves that the Golden Age of science fiction is right here and now.”—Greg Bear About Guardian of Night by Tony Daniel: “[A] large cast of utterly graspable humans . . . .Following in the footsteps of Poul Anderson and Greg Bear, Tony Daniel makes a triumphant return.”—Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine “. . .an unparalleled success and could easily become a classic in military science fiction. . .Daniel creates. . .believable aliens as well as humans who are all striving for the same goal: capture the Guardian of Night. I was surprised and delighted by the depth of characterization in this book and recommend it to you heartily.”—Galaxy’s Edge About Metaplanetary, by Tony Daniel “[A] panoramic tale of men and women engaged in a war that spans both virtual and normal realities and that calls into question the nature of human intelligence and the price of freedom.”—Library Journal "The best science fiction novel I've read in five years.”—Lucius Shepard About Superluminal, by Tony Daniel “Daniel renders his 31st-century battles and human dilemmas utterly fascinating.”—Washington Post Book World “[T]eems with vivid characters and surprising action.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[B]rilliantly realized. . . the story remains gripping throughout.”—Booklist


Margaret the First

Margaret the First

Author: Danielle Dutton

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2016-03-15

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1936787369

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A Lit Hub Best Book of 2016 • One of Electric Literature's Best Novels of 2016 • An Entropy Best Book of 2016 “The duchess herself would be delighted at her resurrection in Margaret the First...Dutton expertly captures the pathos of a woman whose happiness is furrowed with the anxiety of underacknowledgment.” —Katharine Grant, The New York Times Book Review Margaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the shy, gifted, and wildly unconventional 17th–century Duchess. The eccentric Margaret wrote and published volumes of poems, philosophy, feminist plays, and utopian science fiction at a time when "being a writer" was not an option open to women. As one of the Queen's attendants and the daughter of prominent Royalists, she was exiled to France when King Charles I was overthrown. As the English Civil War raged on, Margaret met and married William Cavendish, who encouraged her writing and her desire for a career. After the War, her work earned her both fame and infamy in England: at the dawn of daily newspapers, she was "Mad Madge," an original tabloid celebrity. Yet Margaret was also the first woman to be invited to the Royal Society of London—a mainstay of the Scientific Revolution—and the last for another two hundred years. Margaret the First is very much a contemporary novel set in the past. Written with lucid precision and sharp cuts through narrative time, it is a gorgeous and wholly new approach to imagining the life of a historical woman. "In Margaret the First, there is plenty of room for play. Dutton’s work serves to emphasize the ambiguities of archival proof, restoring historical narratives to what they have perhapsalways already been: provoking and serious fantasies,convincing reconstructions, true fictions.”—Lucy Ives, The New Yorker “Danielle Dutton engagingly embellishes the life of Margaret the First, the infamousDuchess of Newcastle–upon–Tyne.” —Vanity Fair


The Eye of Argon

The Eye of Argon

Author: Jim Theis

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-30

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9781479458769

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This is not a hoax. Jim Theis was a real person, who wrote The Eye of Argon in all seriousness as a teenager, and published it in a fanzine, Osfan in 1970. But the story did not pass into the oblivion that awaits most amateur fiction. Instead, a miracle happened, and transcribed and photocopied texts began to circulate in science fiction circles, gaining a wide and incredulous audience among both professionals and fans. It became the ultimate samizdat, an underground classic, and for more than thirty years it has been the subject of midnight readings at conventions, as thousands have come to appreciate the negative genius of this amazing Ed Wood of prose.


This Is Where It Ends

This Is Where It Ends

Author: Marieke Nijkamp

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2016-01-05

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1492622486

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The reviews are in! This Is Where It Ends, the #1 New York Times bestseller and one of the Best Books of the Decade (Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, BookRiot), "could break you." "I am speechless." "The saddest book I have ever read." "Literally tore my heart out." Go inside a heartbreaking fictional school shooting, minute-by-terrifying-minute. Everyone has a reason to fear the boy with the gun... 10:00 a.m.: The principal of Opportunity, Alabama's high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve. 10:02 a.m.: The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class. 10:03 a.m.: The auditorium doors won't open. 10:05 a.m.: Someone starts shooting. Over the course of 54 minutes, four students must confront their greatest hopes, and darkest fears, as they come face-to-face with the boy with the gun. In a world where violence in schools is at an all-time high and school shootings are a horrifyingly common reality for teenagers, This Is Where It Ends is a rallying cry to end the gun violence epidemic for good. Praise for This Is Where It Ends: A Buzzfeed Best Young Adult Book of the Decade A Paste Magazine Best Teen Book of the Decade A Book Riot Biggest YA Book of the Decade A Professional Book Nerds Best Book of the Decade A Bustle.com Most-Anticipated YA Novel A Goodreads YA Best Books Pick A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist for Young Adult Fiction Kids Indie Next List Pick "Marieke Nijkamp's brutal, powerful fictional account of a school shooting is important in its timeliness." —Bustle.com "A gritty, emotional, and suspenseful read and although fictionalized, it reflects on a problematic and harrowing issue across the nation." —Buzzfeed "A compelling, brutal story of an unfortunately all-too familiar situation: a school shooting. Nijkamp portrays the events thoughtfully, recounting fifty-four intense minutes of bravery, love, and loss." —BookRiot


The Republic of Imagination

The Republic of Imagination

Author: Azar Nafisi

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-10-21

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0698170334

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A New York Times bestseller The author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with the next chapter of her life in books—a passionate and deeply moving hymn to America Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her multimillion-copy bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics of English and American literature to her eager students in Iran. In this electrifying follow-up, she argues that fiction is just as threatened—and just as invaluable—in America today. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination. Nafisi invites committed readers everywhere to join her as citizens of what she calls the Republic of Imagination, a country with no borders and few restrictions, where the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.


Writing Out the Storm

Writing Out the Storm

Author: Barbara Abercrombie

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 2002-10-09

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1429970030

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This powerful and deeply inspirational handbook is for anyone coping with serious illness or injury-be it theirs or that of a loved one-who wants and needs to help themselves through the healing process. Offering her own experience with breast cancer, as well as stories from other authors who have suffered from illnesses or severe injuries-from Stephen King to Lance Armstrong-Abercrombie encourages readers to write what is in their hearts and to benefit from the power of shared experience. Using writing as therapy, Writing Out the Storm is a book about healing the soul.


Los Angeles Magazine

Los Angeles Magazine

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2003-03

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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Los Angeles magazine is a regional magazine of national stature. Our combination of award-winning feature writing, investigative reporting, service journalism, and design covers the people, lifestyle, culture, entertainment, fashion, art and architecture, and news that define Southern California. Started in the spring of 1961, Los Angeles magazine has been addressing the needs and interests of our region for 48 years. The magazine continues to be the definitive resource for an affluent population that is intensely interested in a lifestyle that is uniquely Southern Californian.