7 Days To Easy-Money: Get Paid To Write A Book

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

  Sell your book the easy way --- sell a proposal
  You and your publisher: a partnership
  Why write a proposal first?
  How do you write a book proposal?
  How to use this ebook
    Work FAST
    Can't devote a week to writing your proposal?

Day One: What’s a book proposal? Get an idea for your book

  Day One Tasks
    Task One: Look over four non-fiction books
    Task Two: Work through the Idea Generator exercises in this chapter
    Task Three: Create a computer folder to hold your working files
    Task Three: Create a Work Log
  What’s a book proposal?
  Got an idea for your book? Great!
  Start here to develop an idea for your next book
    Idea Generator One: What you're good at
    Idea Generator Two: Your past experiences
    Idea Generator Three: Your knowledge
    Idea Generator Four: What you enjoy most
    Idea Generator Five: From challenge to opportunity
  Checklist: Is this the right idea for you TODAY?

Day Two: Develop your idea and assess the market

  Day Two Tasks
    Task One: Keep studying non-fiction books
    Task Two: Develop your idea
  Dispelling myths and a word about confidence
    Myth One
    Myth Two
    Myth Three
    Myth Four
  Today we'll develop your idea and assess the market
    Note: your personal experience is valuable
  Simple steps in developing your idea
    1. Write down everything you know about this idea
    2. Make a long list of possible book titles
    3. Create a list of contacts
  Assess the market for your book
    1. Visit large bookstores
    2. Visit your library
    3. Amazon.com
  Write a report on your discoveries

Day Three: Write the blurb and outline your book

  Day Three Tasks
    Task One: Write at least three blurbs
    Task Two: Collect sample blurbs
  Writing the blurb
    Your blurb helps your agent and editor to get a contract for you
    Sample blurbs
    Sample blurb from: LifeTime: Better Time Management in 21 Days by Angela Booth
    Sample blurb from: Making The Internet Work For Your Business by Angela Booth
    Write your blurb in easy steps
    One: Make a list of the benefits to the reader
    Two: Rank the benefits
    Three: Write several blurbs, in various lengths
    Essential blurb add-on: the testimonial
  Outlining your book
    Start with a mind map
    Create your outline

Day Four: Research your book proposal, and flesh out your book's outline

  Day Four Tasks
    Task One: Create your research plan
    Task Two: Create a chapter outline for your book
  Research: How much do you need to know?
    Your research plan
  Work on your book's outline and the first chapter, as you research
    The Brain-Dead Process
    What goes into your chapter outline?
  Will you need graphics or photographs?

Day Five: Write your proposal query letter, and submit it to agents and publishers

  Day Five Tasks 41
    Task One: Start a contact list of agents and publishers 41
    Task Two: Send out ten query letters to agents and publishers 41
  Today you write your proposal query letter 41
  Do you need an agent? 42
    Online resources to help you in your agent-hunt 42
  Sending your query letter directly to publishers 43
  Yes, you can multiple-submit your query letter, and even your proposal 44
  Sample Query Letter 45
  Another sample query letter 47
  Write your query letter! 49
    Here's a quick outline for your letter: 
    "Don'ts" for your query letter 
    1. Don't make unsupported claims for yourself or your book 
    2. Don't mention that you're unpublished 
    3. Don't mention that your partner, your best friend, or the milkman think 
        that you’re a good writer or that you've got a brilliant idea for a book
    4. Don't be specific

Day Six: Write the proposal

  Day Six Task
    Task One: Write the initial draft of your book proposal
  Relax! You'll write your draft in stages
  Let's write the proposal
    Your chapter outline
    Your background—why you're the person to write this book
     Write the Overview
    Sample Overview Writing To Sell In The Internet Age
    The Internet gives writers unlimited new opportunities
    A how-to plus a how-they-did-it
    What I won't be including
    Don’t hype, BUT DO INCLUDE EVERYTHING RELEVANT
    Your Overview's length
    Write the Promotions section
    Promoting with money
    Promoting with time
    Sample Promotions section Writing To Sell In The Internet Age
    My plan outline
    Write the Competition section

Day Seven: Write the sample chapter and revise your proposal

  Day Seven Tasks
    Task One: Write the sample chapter
    Task Two: Revision
  Today you write your sample chapter
    A fast chapter-writing method
    1. Reread your notes
    2. Talk to yourself on paper
    3. When you're ready, write
  Revising your proposal
    How to revise
    1. Read the entire proposal
    2. Slash and burn
    3. Add material
    4. Read for coherency
    5. Revise for style
    6. Copyedit

You're done!

Resource: Sample Book Proposal
7 Days To Easy-Money: Copywriting Success by Angela Booth
Proposal  
Angela Booth
Overview
    The business writing market is invisible to most writers
  Writers need this book
  The book's structure
    What's not in the book
  Angela Booth's Background
    Quick Bio
    Partial list of publication credits
    Web site
    Why this author for this book?
  Competition
    1. The Elements of Copywriting: The Essential Guide to Creating Copy
    That Gets  the Results You Want
    2. Teach Yourself Copywriting
    3. The Well-Fed Writer: Financial Self-Sufficiency As a Freelance
    Writer in Six Months or Less
  Who will buy 7 Days To Easy Money: Copywriting Success and why?
  My promotions plan for 7 Days To Easy Money: Copywriting Success
    My plan outline

Chapter Outline

  How to get the most out of this book
  Week One: Start Your New Business In Just Seven Days!
  Introduction & Day One: Getting Started
  Day Two: your portfolio, prospecting and marketing
  Day Three: Writing Longer Copy
  Day Four: Public Relations Copywriting
  Day Five: Specialist Copywriting
  Day Six: Focus on Marketing
  Day Seven: Copywriting for performance
  Week Two: Your copywriting services marketing plan and more
  Week Three: Copywriting for the Internet
  Week Four: Writing bios (biographies) and creating your own media kit
  Sample Chapters: Introduction and Day One
  Introduction
    Can YOU make money freelance copywriting?
    First must-do: get your client's message across
    Second must-do: market your copywriting services
    How much can you earn?

Day One: Getting Started
  Your Day One Objectives
  The brief, and your Writing Services Agreement
    Your briefing sheet
    Your Writing Services Agreement
    (Sidebar) The copywriter's formula: AIDA
  Writing copy step by step
    Step One: Research
    Step Two: Prepare by getting a conversation down on paper or on the
    computer screen
   Step Three: Brainstorm with word associations
    Step Four: First draft: write it fast
  Copywriter's How –To: Five Easy Tips To Write A Perfect, Selling Ad
    Tip One: who's the reader? (Or viewer, or listener if you're writing for broadcast.)
    Tip Two: Write an attention-grabbing headline
    Tip Three: Write the features first, then work out what the benefits are
    Tip Four: Don’t forget the response!
    Tip Five: Read it out loud
  Day One Exercises
    Exercise One: Write a brief
    Exercise Two: Getting (conversational) words on paper: Tell me about
    your favorite pen
    Exercise Three: Write ad headlines from the brief you created
    Exercise Four: Create the ad from the brief and headlines you wrote