I have a challenge for you if you really want to write a book. Stop paying for or spending your time (which is money too by the way) listening to a bunch of publishing teleseminars. STOP STOP STOP.
For three months add all those newsletters, ezines, YOUR NEXT BIG Chance in Publishing Teleseminar offerings to your junk mail list. Let me be clear, I’m not targeting any particular teleseminar, I’m just telling you – urging you – pleading with you to get off the tele-merry-go-round. There is nothing they can tell you that you won’t be able to find out once your book is written. If your book is written – there is nothing they can tell you about how to start pitching it to agents.
If your book is published, you can spend two really fruitful hours on the Web by finding a book that is most like your book and doing Google searches for every place that book is featured. Voila – you’ve just built your first media target list, so you don’t need that teleseminar to tell you how to build your outreach list. Ah, another hour saved for you to spend pitching your book instead of listening to the “masters”.
STOP THE TELESEMINAR MADNESS.
In the summer my family puts our TV in storage for one month in the garage. You cannot imagine the time we have to ponder our navels, a great literary work, or just spending that time with the sheer joy of hearing one another breathe.
I’m urging you for this New Year to stop scurrying around from teleseminar to teleseminar and spend some time just pondering your work, your creativity and how you’re going to successfully blaze your own publishing trail.
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