"Heal Yourself AND Create a
New
Career, Writing Successful Self Help
Books for the New Age Market."
Dear Fellow
Writer,
The next
time you're in town, take a close look at your local book
store. Picture yourself studying those long lines of
shelves (looking for your own name perhaps!)
You'll
notice that, when it comes to new books, self help
is one of the major growth industries in
publishing - and has been for well over two decades now.
There seems to be a never ending demand for books
that cater to our physical, mental and emotional growth.
It's a
product of our age: a time when our new found wealth,
materialism and 'Because I'm Worth It' mentality
has left us feeling empty, yearning for something more
meaningful, perhaps even spiritual.
Whilst
you're still in that bookstore, take a look at some of
those writer's markets books - and buy one if
you haven't already! It will be one of the best
investments in your writing career you will ever make.
Examine
Submission Guidelines
Now, look
up the guidelines for submitting manuscripts and
book ideas to mainstream and independent publishers.
Fiction
guidelines are often cursory and dismissive, listing
precise conditions that imply you should think twice
about submitting anything!
Now take
a look at the guidelines for submitting books on 'self
help', 'how to' and books about personal growth and
change.
A
completely different story.
The
guidelines for submitting self help manuscripts, even
just ideas for self help books is far more encouraging,
even enthusiastic and helpful.
Why is
this, do you think?
Okay,
listen and listen good: The publishing industry is a
business. It is commercially driven. The industry,
from the bottom to the top, want to stock shops with books
that actually sell!
Finding
a Niche
Now, assume
that writing a self help book is a lot quicker than
writing a novel - and I mean a lot, say a tenth of the
time you'd take on a fictional work. Assume that you
could probably research, plan and write a good
self help book, realistically, in about two months - from
the germ of an idea to final draft. It's by no means an
unreasonable assumption.
What
would you write about that hasn't been covered a million
times already? (Not that this seems to stop a good
writer!)
Is there a niche
that is not particularly well catered for?
Well
actually, YES - it's a genre all its own. And it's
often referred to, by those in the know, as Mind Body
and Spirit, sometimes also called New Age.
But, I hear
you ask, how would I start writing for this
comparatively virgin market? How would I know what
to say? And how to say it?
Clearly, by
getting the best advice from someone who's been
there and done that with great success.
Enter Florence Ellen
Florence is
the multi-published author of Decoding the Parable of
Dreams. She is a Certified Recreation Therapist
and Metaphysical Dream Counselor. Not only that
she's a brilliant writing tutor!
Yes,
Florence has a keen interest in all things esoteric - but
is grounded enough to be in the ideal position to show
you, step by step, how to research and write an
excellent self help book. Not only that, she can also
show you how it can be a profound personal journey
for you, the writer.
The Easy Way
to Write for the
Mind Body and Spirit Market
by Florence Ellen
In her
brand new ebook, Florence Ellen outlines exactly
how to go about impressing a mainstream self help
publisher enough to get published!
The good
news? It's a process - one that you can literally carbon
copy to get deals and even advances for books you
haven't written yet!
By drawing
on her immense personal experience, Florence shows how a
good proposal is worth its weight in gold -
especially if it's targeted right.
But not
only do you get all the info on how to write, research
and pitch a highly sellable MBS book, you get an additional
bonus ebook of 42 target markets of real world
publishers, agents and organizations that are hungry
for these kinds of books, ideas and completed
manuscripts.
Here's a
quick overview of what Florence can help you with:
* Visualizing
your Book to Completion
* This
Business of Spiritual Writing
* How to
Be an Expert in Your Field
* How To
Write What You Believe - Without Alienating Your Readers
*
Simplifying the Complex
*
Melding Wisdom with Wherewithal
*
Intuition and the Brain Storming Process.
*
Manifesting Your Manuscript
* Gurus
and Avatars With Business Cards (The Karma of Contracts)
* 11
Success Secrets For Marketing Your Book
* Other
Special Resources for the Spiritual Writer
* And
much, much more - really! 200 pages really!
This is a
very special opportunity to purchase something previously
unheard of - a self help book about the business of
self help that shows you how you can grow and learn as
a person AND write and profit from the whole
experience.
This book
is a spiritual journey as well as a manual for
writing success.
