6 Months: Story Idea to Professional Published Novel

Breaking into print via traditional publishing is not only hard, it takes a long time: you have to find an agent, the agent has to sell your story, the publisher has to suggest changes and then accept the final version you turn in, and then…it will still take 2 to 4 years before your book hits bookstore shelves! Oh, yes, and it’ll be anything from 6 months to 2 more years before you ever see a penny beyond your advance—if you even got an advance.

This is no way to make a living—and it doesn’t matter if you’re a terrific author or an average one! The current publishing landscape operates at a glacially slow pace, irrespective of the skills and talents of the authors who support it.

Oh, sure, if you broke into print 30 or 20 or even 10 years ago, things are different. But for a new writer to break in now and start a career now as a published novelist…well, good luck with that. Let me know how that works for you.

But there’s hope.

The huge exception to this situation are the indie authors, who manage and produce their own books. If you’re reasonably prolific, writing at least 2 complete novels a year, and if you’re writing interesting stories readers want to read, you can short-circuit the glacial slowness of traditional publishing. You can build your career to the point where you are earning $5,000, $10,000, even $20,000 per month from your novels. And instead of taking home 4% or 8% or maybe 10% of the selling price, you can take home 60% or 70%. Doesn’t that sound like a better deal to you?

Yes, you do your own marketing as an indie author, but unless you’re Dan Brown or Nora Roberts, with ginormous advances, you’re going to do your own marketing even with a traditional publisher. The difference is you control the marketing decisions so your book gets the support it deserves.

Nope, it’s not easy. Getting 5-figure and 6-figure incomes doesn’t happen overnight. It’ll take publishing multiple good books to get there.

Yes, it takes a lot of hard work, persistence, and determination. But you can get there. And the first step is to lay the groundwork of your new career before you leave your old job. This means:

• Learning how to create, edit, and package a book in 6 months or less, from story idea to finished publishable product.
• Learning how to start to establish an author platform for yourself
• Learning how to begin building your personal fan base—one not reliant on social media that can literally take it away from you overnight (and they have, to far too many creators!).
• Developing a set of tools to help you with all aspects of you career, from writing, editing, revising, packaging, and publishing your stories, and even including promotion and marketing.
• Learning how to market your books effectively and with minimum cost.
• Building a community of other writers, also dedicated and hard-working, who are also determined to make it work.

In a brand-new 6-month program you can go from a bare story idea to a complete novel draft, edit and revise that draft, start to develop your author platform, establish a system for collecting emails of your adoring fans, package your novel and publish it. And you can do all that in only 6 months. You’ll get help and encouragement at every step of the way, along with personal coaching assistance in all aspects of the process.

What’s it worth to you to begin to build an amazing writing career that can grow to earn you $50,000 or $100,000/year?

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