I have a new FREE ebook offer for my favorite blog followers—that’s all of you! I have been giving away a free ebooklet at my new website for several months now. The booklet The Successful Author’s Handbook.
I’ve recently posted a NEW free ebooklet: 50 Reasons Why You SHOULD Write That Book!
I notice that my webmaster hasn’t changed the title of the free book on the home page, but I believe that if you click on the title of the FREE book (Successful Author’s Handbook) and follow through and download it, you will receive the new offering: 50 Reasons Why You Should Write That Book!
Why did I put this booklet together for you? Because some of you are still timid about committing to your marvelous book idea. And some of you are eagerly working on a book without having given any thought to whether it’s a good idea or not. This ebooklet will help to guide you, give you confidence where it is warranted and maybe help you to change aspects of your project that obviously aren’t working.
I listened to a teleseminar conversation yesterday and heard that traditional publishers are producing fewer books. I went back and looked at statistics and see that this is not true. Traditional publishers are publishing more books every year. They produced 11,000 more titles in 2008 than 2007 and there was a 4,000 title increase in 2009. That is according to Bowker’s statistics.
On the other hand, there has been an incredibly high increase among pay-to-publish and self-published titles within the last few years. I mean a jump from 560,626 (total published books) in 2008 to 1,052,803 in 2009 is kind of off the charts, crazy. Can it be that they changed their way of counting/documenting new and revised titles?
At any rate, the competition is still amazingly tough.
I met a young man via email this morning, however, who landed an excellent agent who got him a contract with a major publisher for his first book. It can still happen. It does happen. But only for books that are truly of major significance to a large audience or a strong, large niche audience and are marketable. I still meet too many authors who expect to hit the big time with weak books and weak platforms. And I meet authors with promising books, but not enough confidence or stick-to-it-iveness to take it to the top.
So, do you want reasons to go ahead and write that book or to sit down and finish that book? Order your FREE copy of my latest booklet, 50 Reasons Why You Should Write That Book. http://www.patriciafry.com
And the next time you need an editor, a manuscript evaluation, help with book promotion, a good book on publishing, book promotion, writing a book proposal, think of hiring me/buying my books. If you enjoy this blog and you consider my advice valid, come to me when you are ready to hire an editor, etc. PLFry620@yahoo.com