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Registration is now open for the brand new Narrate Your Own Book course for authors who want to…narrate their own books. If you’ve wanted to turn your book into your audiobook… If you’ve already tried recording your own audiobook but have been disappointed by the results… If you think creating your own audiobook is next to impossible, too expensive, …
Listening to a book narrated by its author makes for a much more intimate experience than reading the print version. And, if I know if I am moved by the audio version, I will turn around and purchase the print book so I can stay connected to the impact the book had on me. So …
The mini-course access has expired but the good news is you now have the opportunity to see just what’s in the full NYOB course. In the first video of the mini-course, we learned a lot about what it takes to get set up to narrate your book and what gear you need. We received a …
When I work with my nonfiction business book authors, one thing I urge (OK, insist) they do is to record an audiobook. Typically, this involves finding a local studio with a competent engineer who understands what is required to produce audio files that ACX.com (Audible’s company) will accept the first time out followed by a …
The bath towels at my parents’ house were plentiful but thin, small and scratchy. Not one to expect those two depression babies to acquiesce to my bougie needs, I bought them a couple of big fluffy bath sheets. Inexplicably, they refused to use them. They lived in the back of the linen closet and came …
Are you planning to follow some advice to blog frequently and then roll up those posts into a book? Here’s how to ensure that approach will end up as a book that works. Step 1 Decide on the “controlling idea” of the book. This is a 1-2 sentence thesis. For How-to books it goes something …
“I need to know if you are going to take the Mustang, or not because our cousin knows a guy that really wants it and who said he’ll finish the restoration,” said my sister. The car she was referring to was a 1966 Mustang, my dad’s last project car. It had been sitting in storage …
When it comes to sentence and paragraph transitions, I want you to think of the game Barrel of Monkeys. Barrel of Monkeys is a toy developed in the mid-1960s that is now sold by Milton Bradley / Hasbro. The game consists of a plastic barrel containing 10 plastic monkeys with arms going in opposite directions. …
About 20 years ago, I hired an NYC-based book coach, Jerry Mundis, to help me get the first of a bad novel done—a fictional tale modeled after the movie Working Girl with Melanie Griffith. (To be clear, the bad part is on me—I didn’t hire him to edit it, I hired him to help me …
If you are thinking of writing a book—or even in the middle of writing one—and you don’t yet have a forum that allows you to connect with your target audience, you’re not alone. In book parlance, this forum is called an author “platform.” A platform is important for many reasons but especially so if you …