How to Write a Best-Seller While Keeping Your Day Job! A Step-By-Step Manual of Success for Writers Who Want to Be Published But Don't Have the Time [Paperback]

Daniel H. Jones (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0595203841 | ISBN-13: 978-0595203840 | Publication Date: October 23, 2001

Don't have time to wait for mainstream publishers to discover your talent? Do something about it! Now!How to Write a Best-Seller While Keeping Your Day Job! offers a practical and fun outline for getting your book published. Born of the author's own arduous journey to publication and written with humor and passion, How to Write a Best-Seller While Keeping Your Day Job! is a practical tool for all the writers out there pressed for time and fed up with the mainstream book business. Written during a two-week period by a full-time insurance professional and author of St. Jude's Secret!From the author: "This piece is meant to offer the grass-roots author an easy, quick-reference guide to creating, publishing and marketing a commercially viable book in today's competitive marketplace, while keeping his or her current job." Featuring 10 Point Attack Plans on Promotion, Publication and The Writing Process, this book offers a common sense approach to today's publishing opportunities."Many of us know we have a book inside us, but we just don't have time and we know how tough this business is. Daniel's shown us all it can be done." -Jeanne Jard River Oaks Bookstore Houston

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From the Publisher

How to Write a Best-Seller While Keeping Your Day Job! provides a practical and fun outline for getting your book published. Born of the author's own arduous journey to publication and written with humor and passion, How to Write a Best-Seller While Keeping Your Day Job! is a practical tool for all the writers out there pressed for time and fed up with the mainstream book business.

From the Author

This little number’s offered as an outline of possible steps in the journey to publication. As I said it’s born of the usual writer’s angst at staring for far too long at a blank page, re-directed nervous energy and a burgeoning notion that it may actually be helpful to somebody. This notion dawned on me after a recent interview with my local newspaper on my novel’s journey to publication. Moreover, I’ve discussed the process with several friends, neighbors and co-workers who are genuinely interested in exploring their publishing options without re-inventing the wheel, as I did.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 132 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (October 23, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595203841
• ISBN-13: 978-0595203840
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #908,705 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother, August 17, 2004

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allysmom (New Hampshire, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Write a Best-Seller While Keeping Your Day Job! A Step-By-Step Manual of Success for Writers Who Want to Be Published But Don't Have the Time (Paperback)

Contrary to the title, this book is not about "writing" a best-seller at all. Instead, it tells you how the author published his book using on-demand publishing and how he marketed it to sell copies. Unfortunately, the writing is amateurish and most of it reads like a commercial for the book he's still trying to push. The meat of the book (5 chapters' worth) takes up only the first 30 pages; the rest is a "glossary" of odds and ends including reviews of the author's book and -- for some unexplained reason -- the results produced when he did a search for the title online.

If you've already written a book and are interested in publishing and marketing it at your own expense, then this book might help you the tiniest bit. If you need help fitting the writing process into a busy life, don't waste your time and money here.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A big no, no, August 1, 2008

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Dignity seeker "Jim" (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Write a Best-Seller While Keeping Your Day Job! A Step-By-Step Manual of Success for Writers Who Want to Be Published But Don't Have the Time (Paperback)

This book is a scam, a perfect example how the self-publishing industry can be discredited.
It is not worth its money.
The author takes pride that it wrote it in two weeks back in 2001 and the quality is similar.
Out of the 121 pages of the book, only 31 are written by the author, the remaining are downloaded pages from internet and exerpts from his new book.
I felt betrayed from buying this book and I would suggest Amazon should not promote this kind of books.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Basic steps to write while keeping a day job, January 25, 2010

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K. Wardell "BolderK" (Boulder, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Write a Best-Seller While Keeping Your Day Job! A Step-By-Step Manual of Success for Writers Who Want to Be Published But Don't Have the Time (Paperback)

Gave this as a gift to my daughter who is a writer. I aspire to be. Did not read it but perused it and it seems to be basic reminder steps for writing your novel...while keeping your day job.