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    The Making of a Best-Seller: Secrets to Self-Publishing and Marketing Your Book
    The Making of a Best-Seller: Secrets to Self-Publishing and Marketing Your Book
    The Making of a Best-Seller: Secrets to Self-Publishing and Marketing Your Book
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    The Making of a Best-Seller: Secrets to Self-Publishing and Marketing Your Book

    By Sally Fairfax

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    Tired of not having a readership? Tired of making books that don’t really MOVE?! Well, my friend, get up and get AHEAD!

    Every writer wants to make a best-selling book. Learn how to do it the right way.

    Why put all your limited time and effort into things like paid-for ads out of your own pocket, pulling teeth trying to get someone to just LOOK at your words, and maybe even querying shoddy independent publishers who promise you the world when you can effectively and easily produce sellable content of quality that grants you the chance to live a glamorous writer’s life of freedom, gratification, and immense success? Does it sound too good to be true?

    This game-changing introduction into the writing industry is for aspiring authors who want to have an edge in the marketplace and embrace a powerful new approach to marketing themselves, building an active readership, and all-around “killing it” in this business. Are you ready?

    You will learn:

        •    To create goals for yourself.
        •    How little importance first drafts are.
        •    Your values in the writer’s market.
        •    To create your own voice, style, and word structure.
        •    To pick great subject matter.
        •    To use proper titles, links, and key words.
        •    The art of persistence.
        •    And much more!

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisher(unknown)
    Release dateAug 27, 2017
    ISBN9781386442189
    The Making of a Best-Seller: Secrets to Self-Publishing and Marketing Your Book

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      The Making of a Best-Seller - Sally Fairfax

      Introduction

      I’m not gonna sit here and sugarcoat anything, writing is a pain in the ass. There, I said it. So before you go on, just know that it is completely and utterly the biggest pain-in-the-ass job just like any other job — like a plumber, garbage guy, mail lady, anything for that matter — so you should probably know that piece of info before diving into a business like this. If you’re doing it for easy cash, fame, or any level of actual fortune, just quit now while you’re ahead. Writing is not for you.

      I’m like that tough-love mother. I’m not going to coddle you, I’m not going to motivate you, I’m not even going to claim you are good at writing. I’m here to help, and lifting your spirits, I’m afraid, will not bring you success in this writing business. And as Rick from Rick & Morty the TV show would say, Gotta rip that bandaid off quick, now, Summer. It actually is beneficial to view the writing business as a chore, an actual competitive job, a job that is just as bad as McDonald’s minimum wage or something . . . because it is. The reason why viewing the writing business in this light will help you is because the entire process of writing and actually publishing your work is like throwing a cast out into the ocean and wanting to catch a damn Whale!: think James Patterson or Stephen King and their success, that’s the Whale I’m referring to.

      So in the meantime, the only thing you should worry about, as far as casting into the ocean goes, is not expecting to catch anything. If you get a little fish or a medium-sized bass, the goal is to go out, try, and just have fun. I know that’s cliché and is probably turning you off from the title of this book which is based on success in the writing industry, and that’s kind of the point. I want every single one of those kinds of buyers of this book to get a thousand miles away from here, because they are a waste of my time, and frankly, a waste of yours if you want to end up doing business with or along side them. Literally never trust anyone who tells you they will give you success, including my lame-ass!

      This all said, again, I’m your soul-crushing, tough-love-advocating mother and I want what’s best for you in every way possible. But I want you to know if you are going into this wanting success, you are sadly mistaken, my ignorant child.

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