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WELCOME TO WRITEAHOLIC NEWS February 2012 STOP DREAMING OF BECOMING A WEALTHY WRITER. ------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this email because you signed up to receive regular issues of Writeaholic News. This is a double opt-in subscription and is never sent unsolicited. Read this issue online ------------------------------------------------------- IN THIS ISSUE SELF PUBLISH WORLDWIDE IS BACK This best selling ebook is back and it's completely re-written and updated. It's a huge ebook jam packed with information about how to easily and quickly publish ebooks and print books. And it comes with 5 bonus items. http://selfpublishworldwide.com And you can also affiliate to this ebook and start earning 50% commission http://selfpublishworldwide.com/affiliates.html LOOKING FOR BOOKS ON WRITING? Want to write for magazines? Write SEO articles? Run your own blog Whatever type of writer you want to be, you'll find hundreds of ebooks, MAKE 2012 YOUR BEST YEAR OF WRITING, EVER! Don't put it off any longer. Make this year your most successful writing year ever. All you need is determination, hard work and to take part in Download your free 2-month excerpt and start writing today. THE WEALTHY WRITER This ebook is coauthored by myself (Ruth Barringham) and Nick Daws. Use the link below to receive a $10 discount when you purchase ------------------------------------------------------- So far 2012 has been an extremely busy year for me with so many writing projects on the go. But busy means successful and I hope it's been that way for you too. But one of the biggest projects I was working on recently was my newly revised and almost completely re-written ebook Self Publish Worldwide which is now published and available for sale and is popular already. I was selling it at first directly through PayPal, but now I'm selling it through ClickBank, so if you're a ClickBank affiliate, you can start making money by selling this ebook too. You can find the information about becoming an affiliate at http://selfpublishworldwide.com/affiliates.html . I also bought an ebook recently. It was Jim Edwards newly updated How to Write an Ebook in 7 Days. I bought his original ebook several years ago and used it a lot. I also touted it around the internet, selling it as an affiliate and made quite a few sales over the years. So when he brought out his new 2.0 Version of the same book, I eagerly purchased that too thinking that I would enjoy it just as much. But sadly it was a great disappointment. The ebook was over 500 pages long. Wow! Well… it would have been wow except that almost every page was taken up with an image of a computer screen with a picture of Jim Edwards on it, which left very little space on each page for the actual content of the book. I had wanted to print the ebook and have a good read through it (I print all my ebooks) but it was way to big to print. And I didn't want to sit and scroll through so many pages on screen. So I contacted their support department, lamented my problems with the ebook and they issued a refund to me. So I won't be promoting this new ebook because I was very disappointed in it. I affiliate to quite a few products but I only promote those that I believe in (or believe to be good if I don't own a copy myself). So instead of The 7 Day Ebook I'm now promoting WCCL's The 10 Day Ebook because this is ebook is getting rave reviews all over the internet and it's a huge step-by-step course that takes you all the way through from idea to published ebook AND promises that, following the advice in the book, you can earn $1,000/month from your first ebook. And you can use the link in the Resources section below to purchase this ebook at a substantial discount. I'm currently working on updating my website at http://selfpublishworldwide.com so if you've signed up for updates (and many people have) you should be receiving your first update soon. Don't forget that it was Chinese New Year on 23rd January and this is the Year of the Dragon and is said to be an extremely lucky year. So make sure it's lucky for you. ------------------------------------------------------- I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money. ------------------------------------------------------- APPLE'S NEW TEXTBOOKS FOR IPAD Apple has unveiled its iBooks 2 interactive text books for the iPad with several textbook publishing companies already getting onboard. They have also provided free authoring software so that anyone can create these new text books for the iPad. (iBooks created with the new software can only be sold in the iBookStore. http://www.apple.com/education/ibooks-textbooks/ JAILED AUTHOR NOW FREED Australian author, Harry Nicolaides, jailed for three years for insulting Thailand's crown prince in a little-read 2005 novel, has been freed. THE DEMISE OF GAMEPRO MAGAZINE Well known magazine GamePro ceased publication in November last year and now its website has closed down too. http://www.industrygamers.com/news/gamepro-is-dead APPLE'S NEW ITUNES U Course APP This new app the the iPad allows teachers and educators to share whole courses with students anywhere in the world. And the new U Course Manager makes it easy for anyone to upload course material. http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/
INSTANT AUTHOR SYSTEM This is a powerful program from 2 best selling authors, Mike Litman and Bill Quains that takes you from idea to published book. Comes with 3 bonus products including "How to Become a $100/Day Author." FREE ONLINE PLAGIARISM CHECKING TOOL Make sure your web articles or other online content hasn't been stolen or plagiarised. Simply copy and paste your text into the box and it will instantly tell you where your work can be found online. http://reprintwriters.com/copyright-checker/check.php WORDPRESS STARTER GUIDE If you want to start your own blog or website but you're intimidated by WordPress, this guide will make learning a breeze. HOW TO CREATE A VIDEO BOOK TRAILER This is free step by step advice about how to create a video book trailer using the free software Windows Movie Maker. BBC WRITERS ROOM Download scripts, script formatting software, writing tips, competitions, script submissions for TV, radio and stage. You'll find plenty to inspire you and keep you writing scripts at the BBC's official writers page. http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/ EARN $1,000/MONTH FROM ONE EBOOK That is the claim of the publisher of the 10 Day Ebook course. This remarkable course takes you from idea to published ebook author in just 10 days. And they promise that you can start earning $1,000/month from your first ebook. This course is great for beginners. Us the link below to take a look at this huge course. Then come back and use the next link below to buy the course at a discount. ------------------------------------------------------- IPHONE/IPAD APP REVIEWER Tapscape blog is looking for someone to download, test and review 5 iPhone or iPad apps per week and write a 300 to 500 word review on each one. Must own an iPhone 4 preferably and be familiar with Photoshop and be able to do basic image cropping, etc. Payment is $100 per 25 reviews plus getting to keep the hundreds of dollars worth of apps every month. Email a review sample to tapscape@gmail.com plus explain why you would be right for the job. WELL NOW MAGAZINE Targeting healthy living , fitness training, nutrition and well-being of mothers. Target readership is mothers aged 29 to 45. Looking for well-researched, hard-hitting, objective articles of 1,200 to 1,700 words with information that mothers can use right now (no fluff or sensationalisation). Article categories are Eating Well, Healthy Living, Fitness and Motivation. Payment is 10c per word. Query first. http://www.wellnowmagazine.com/images/Well_Now_2010__Writers_Guidelines.pdf CLEAN RUN MAGAZINE Welcomes submission of article ideas covering the entire range of issues pertaining to the training of dogs for agility, including competing, training classes, safety of the dogs, etc. Articles need to be 1,200 to 3,000 words in length. Also accepts photos. Payment is $75 to $300 per article. Query first by email. http://www.cleanrun.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.display&page_id=56 LAST PAGE HUMOR COLUMN Smithsonian magazine is looking for short humour stories of around 65 words for its back page feature. Stories need to be personal stories with a humorous tone. payment is $1,000 per story. Submit full story via online form. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/contact-us/humour-guidelines.html REDSTONE SCIENCE FICTION Publish science fiction, anything from Stories must be between 750 and 4,000 words. Payment is 5cents/word. Submit by email by Feb 14. http://redstonesciencefiction.com/guidelines/ DIECAST MAGAZINE Dedicated to owners of collectible Diecast model vehicles. Looking for articles and reviews from 150 to 1,200 words. Pays industry standards. Submit idea by email first. http://www.diecastxmagazine.com/become-a-contributor/ ------------------------------------------------------- THE RISE OF THE INDIE AUTHORS Not too long ago, it was so difficult to become a published author. Why? Because the only kinds of books there used to be were printed books. And not only that - these books were produced in print runs of tens of thousands of copies at a time which meant that only the big publishing companies could afford to print them. And with only an estimated one in every fifty thousand manuscripts submitted being published, most authors could only dream about working as a full-time writer. Then along came POD publishing. This was a real revolution for indie authors. Now books could be Printed On Demand. This freed up authors because they were able to publish all their own books and only print a copy when it was ordered. At the time, many people poo-pooed the idea of self publishing this way and warned that allowing so many authors to publish their own books would lead to a flood of low-quality writing hitting the book store shelves. They said the reading public would never embrace it. But they did. More and more online bookstores began to appear because now they didn't need to stock books anymore. With Print On Demand they could just order a book whenever a customer made a purchase. Then self publishing became even more exciting. Along came ebooks and the new ebook reading devices. This meant that not only could authors publish their own books, they could do it all electronically over the internet, with no shipping fees or packing of books required. And if you're an author, I don't need to tell you how much this revolutionised the whole publishing industry and lead to some publishing companies going out of business and thousands of bricks and mortar stores all across the world closing down. Finally authors were free to write and publish all their books all the time. Gone was the need to send out manuscripts to publishing companies or employ expensive editors to ensure your work was "worthy" of publication. Self publishing is popular with authors because of the ease and speed at which they can publish their books, and also because of the increased profit from every sale. Publishing companies used to pay very low royalties to authors - usually only 10% or less. But self publishing means authors can reap all the profits themselves. And producing ebooks means 100% profit. And it's not just authors who are enjoying the ebook revolution. Readers too now have access to millions more books, and with ereaders, they can travel the world and take their whole library of books with them everywhere they go. Self Publishing Has Brought Great Successes Many authors have now become self published millionaires and the list is still growing. Amanda hocking published only a small number of her novels for the Amazon Kindle™ and as sales increased she soon found herself earning half a million dollars a month. John Locke also published his novels as Kindle ebooks and in less than 9 months had sold over a million books. He then went on to publish another book called "How I Sold 1 Million Ebooks in 5 Months." And there have been plenty of other success stories too including H P Mallory, Lee Goldberg and J A Konrath, just to name a few. And you don't have to publish for the Kindle to have success with self publishing. There are also people like Jim Edwards, Joe Vitale and others who make a success publishing their own ebooks on their own websites. It is estimated that there are now more indie authors than those with traditional publishing contracts. The Rise of the Indie Authors For years now there have been indie musicians successfully producing music without a big recording company behind them. Yet for some reason it was always frowned upon for indie authors to produce a book without a big publishing company behind them. Thankfully all that has changed and indie authors are now the heroes of the publishing world, producing more book titles on a mass scale than any publishing company has ever done. ------------------------------------------------------- This article is an extract from the newly revised, rewritten and updated ebook, Self Publish Worldwide. You can download a longer extract and read the complete Table of Contents of the book at http://selfpublishworldwide.com ------------------------------------------------------- That's all for now. I hope you found plenty to help and inspire you to If you have any comments, good or bad, please get in touch with me at http://selfpublishworldwide.com http://cheritonhousepublishing.com ----------------------------------------------------- |