Q&A Call: January 19, 2010
Here is the most recent Q&A session conducted by John Harricharan for Authors University members.
Enjoy!
Expert Interview: Yanni Maniates, Successful Published Author
The latest expert in the Authors University Expert Interview series is Yanni Maniates, a successful published author and meditative coach.
Yanni has been teaching Meditation, Intuitive Development, Healing and metaphysical subjects for over twenty years. Additionally, he has been doing intuitive counseling for the past fifteen years, and is certified in numerous holistic modalities and have studied and practiced many esoteric healing modalities
In this interview, John and Yanni explore a number of topics, including:
Enjoy this interview as part of your Authors University membership!
Expert Interview: John Kremer, Book Promotion Expert
Recently, John Harricharan had the pleasure of interviewing renowned book promotion expert John Kremer, of BookMarket.com.
John Kremer consults in the areas of book marketing, book sales, book promotion, publicity, direct marketing, pricing, book titles, book covers, book marketing plans, book proposals, rights sales, and general planning for book publishers of all sizes as well as for individual authors. While most of John’s consulting is done over the phone, he also provides on-site consulting services.
Among other services, he provided the strategy that took Deepak Chopra from a vanity press author to being on the New York Times bestseller list eight times. Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, authors of Chicken Soup for the Soul, credit John’s book, 1001 Ways to Market Your Books, as the guiding light for their rise to bestseller status.
We’re excited to offer you this rare interview as part of your Authors University membership!
New Written Authors University Course Being Released
Well, it’s been a great few months since we launched Authors University. We have scores of students who are benefiting from the unique content, and who are on their way to becoming successful published authors!
Haven’t seen the Authors University “Get Published Blueprint” yet?
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Based on requests we’ve received from them, we’re going to be releasing a new written version of the course in just the next few days.
I want to be sure that this new written course grows over time and that it addresses all of the questions you have about writing, publishing, or promoting your book with fantastic success.
So please take a moment and let me know your questions right here in the comments section.
I’ll be sure that we get back to every single question either here on the blog, or that we’ll address them in our public webinar in the next week.
Talk soon!
John Harricharan
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Lesson 12.1 – Final Thoughts: A Brief Summary of Getting Your Book to Market
In this next-to-last session we’ll review a checklist, itemizing the various steps necessary to getting your book to market.
Among the topics covered are: the various steps in writing and formatting your manuscript, getting a cover and testimonials, converting your Word file into a pdf file, getting your manuscript into a hard copy book and many ways to publicize and promote book sales.
Lesson 11.1 – More Notes On Book Covers
This session will explore in detail why the importance of your book cover cannot be overstated.
We’ll examine exactly what are you trying to say on your book cover and will provide a list of
necessary, or suggested content to be included on your book’s front and back covers, as well
as the book’s spine.
Lesson 11.2 – Creating A Book Business
Creating your book may be just the beginning for you.
In this session we’ll explore how to turn writing a book into an ongoing book business. We’ll discuss how to become a publisher, create a book, and make a profit – with little or no out-of-pocket expenses and without having to write much more than the introductory preface.
Lesson 10.1 – The Art of Writing – Some Writing Tips
Most authors set their sights on writing with passion and integrity. For some reason, a part of our energy is conveyed in our words, written or spoken… but we need to write so that the meaning of our words is clearly understood. Here are some simple tips, which will make your writing clearer and easier to read and understand.
Lesson 10.2 – The Responsibilities of An Author
Like everyone else, we, as authors, have some awesome responsibilities. Most of your readers will tend to want to speak with you, see you, touch you and spend lots of time with you. If you permit it, you would have very little private time.
This session concerns itself with creating a balancing act — enough time for your readers and enough time for you — and handling the tasks of meeting your readers and dealing with their correspondence and emails.
Expert Interview: Al Galasso – Executive Director, North American Book Dealers Exchange
For Authors University’s first of many expert interviews, John Harricharan interviewed Al Galasso, Executive Director of the North American Book Dealers Exchange.
For over 27 years, Al has helped thousands of book publishers to market their books. His keen insights into the changing world of book publishing will be invaluable to you on your journey to becoming a published author.
Enjoy this rare interview between Al and John Harricharan!
