Nicolette Praca’s Post

When I say it’s the “Wild Wild West in the publishing world”, this is what I mean. 🔴 The Negatives 🔴 🏴☠️ Dozens of so-called “vanity press” publishers are bandits, just waiting to take your money and run. This has actually been headline news for a few years now. They promise you a New York Times bestseller, collect your hard earned cash, then ghost you - Jesse James style. 💰Even established traditional publishers are going bankrupt these days, taking all your hard work with them when they fall. So much for the Gold Rush - it’s nothing but dirt for you. 💸 Thousands of people will approach you to help you market your book, whether digitally or through traditional PR / earned media. But many of them are highway robbers as well. They’ll abscond with your money and leave you in tears. 🟢 The Positives 🟢 🌠 The sky is the limit. Back in the day, you had to get a literary agent and you had to find a traditional publisher. Which very few people did. Now, anyone who wants to can have a high quality, beautifully produced book! And they don’t need a traditional publisher to do it. 🤝 Out in the Wild West, when you find your people, you form a tight knit community of trusted supporters. You look out for each other. You’ve got each other’s backs. And you help each other succeed. I’ve been privy to many networks of trusted publishers and have multiple to refer you to. (Feel free to DM me and I’m happy to share my resources). You’ve got a friend in me. 🤠 Like the California Gold Rush, there is opportunity for everyone to write a book, change their lives, and as a bi-product, contribute to the world around them. There are many ways to mine for gold with today’s tools, publishing options, and evolving topics to write about. Success isn’t for a select few, but out there for all to gain. 💡 The good news is, we at Your Bestselling Book have a stable full of trusted steeds: Very reliable, honest, hardworking folks in publishing whose hearts are in the right place, just like ours. I’ll be teaching you all the ins and outs of the modern publishing world and sharing my best advice for authors in my book writing course in my next cohort. Join the stampede of fellow authors and as we launch books primed to shake up the scene. We begin September 16th 🏇 #publishingtips #writeyourbook #authortips #authorlife #yourbestsellingbook

Many factors influence the pricing of a book, including its format, selling platform, intended audience, publishing method, and number of authors. https://lnkd.in/gvPZKefM

At what point does all publishing become indie publishing? "According to independent events planners, publicists and marketers, more and more authors are seeking out their services to augment the efforts of their publishers’ in-house staff. Depending on who you ask, the trend is a result of surging promotional workloads over decades – or publishers’ disinvestment in staff."#WritersLife #WomenWriters #Marketing #Publishing #Authors https://lnkd.in/et-BCx8F

$31,000 a Month By Submitting 11 Articles to These Specific Publications I put together a guide on how to make $31,000 a month publishing eleven written, audio, or video articles in some specific large publications. If you’d like the guide (it’s free), read it here: https://lnkd.in/gGzE3a4c You don’t need a website, writing samples, a large social media following, polished brand, connections, or any other online business space social proof to be accepted and paid by large publications. You just need a good article pitch. Get a list of specific large publications that would pay you thousands per article here: https://lnkd.in/gGzE3a4c

This article highlights the importance of recognising the difference between a publisher and a publicist. For years the big six publishing houses have created unrealistic ideas of what a publisher will/can do for their authors. Of course if you are a multi-million selling author, they’re going to push out the PR wagon, but even if you’re a successful author (as you can see with Katherine here) that doesn’t guarantee assistance with marketing. We created a team that specialises in PR for authors (seperate to their publishing contract) and we remind those we represent, that writing the book is only half of the work and that they will need to embark on their own marketing campaigns. Readers want to hear from authors not from the publishers, they want to know why the book’s been written, they want to meet the author and they want to feel they have a connection with them when they read the book. More information like this needs to come out so that independent books start to get recognised. https://lnkd.in/etw6ACaC

Many factors influence the pricing of a book, including its format, selling platform, intended audience, publishing method, and number of authors. https://lnkd.in/g3ttvQuK

6 points to consider for making an attention grabbing Headline : Credits - Copyblogger Media 1.Headline is very important to catch the attention of your audience in a fraction of a second. 2.Make your headline first and then continue your writing so the contents would be related to the headline . Don't stop in between. 3.Can refer to magazines to get headline ideas . 4.Can use numbers in headlines as it generates curiosity in the minds of readers. 5.Headlines should include benefits. Those benefits should be delivered or you will end up losing your customer. 6.If you have an element of urgency, always go for the headline . What do you think about this ?

Thanks, Julie Corbett, for featuring me in your newsletter, The Leaflet. Her newsletter is awesome! She has a section called "Favorite LinkedIn Posts This Week," where she features posts she enjoyed and shares with permission. What a great idea! If you're an #editor or #proofreader, you can subscribe to her newsletter (link in the first comment). And while you're at it, you can subscribe to mine (link in the first comment). I have my regular Shining Beacon weekly (or monthly if you prefer) newsletter, then I also have a newsletter called Running Your Editorial Business Like a Pro, this is a curated monthly newsletter that contains only information for editors. My regular Shining Beacon has information for both editors and authors. But if you edit book-length work, you might also find the author content useful.

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Tomorrow I’ll be publishing my hundredth article on Substack. It’s pretty much ready to go, just making a few final tweaks. One of the many appealing features of this online platform is that readers can subscribe to a particular writer and get articles delivered to their email inboxes, with no need to navigate the web to locate the site or even remember to check for new content. Anyone can get the latest writing I share for free, or can financially support the effort through a paid subscription. Paid subscribers can join the conversation by posting comments and also have full access to the entire archive of articles. To see the list of the first 99 essays I shared, check out the link in the comments below 👇 https://lnkd.in/gjzBCAYZ