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What do I do special as a writing coach?

I just woke up to a question/discussion on Linkedin’s Promocave: Carrie Golden, Citizen Journalist/Poetry Consultant to film-makers at Motionpoems, Inc., asked: Writing coach… Not sure if this group [Promocave] is the right place to post this question but…what exactly does a writing coach do to help writers? ——————- I wear two hats (on one head): […]

Thursday September 29th, 2016 in 1 Shopping Cart, article selling, article writing, articles, Blurb, book title, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, empire, empire building, first draft, freelance articles, Gordon Burgett, humor in articles, iBook, iPad, Kindle, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, magazine articles, newsletter writing, niche publishing, Nook, open publishing, proofreading, publishing, query letters for humor writing, querying for article sales, reprint of a rewrite, reprints, rewrites, second draft, self-publishing, simultaneous submissions, Smashwords, writing | Comments Off on What do I do special as a writing coach?

Leading your idea in print down its most profitable path…

So you’ve got an article or book idea that you want to turn into both big money and widely-seen expertise presence. That’s the way to think! I’d also add that the copy needn’t be completely rewritten again and again, so also think reprint, rewrite, reprint of rewrites, and more… Let’s say you want to write about the […]

Thursday September 15th, 2016 in Amazon.com, article selling, article writing, articles, blog, blogging, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, freelance articles, Gordon Burgett, humor in articles, LSI, Lulu, magazine articles, newsletter writing, niche publishing, Nook, Nook Press, open publishing, public speaking, publishing, query letters for humor writing, querying for article sales, reprint of a rewrite, reprints, rewrites, self-publishing, sidebars, simultaneous submissions, speaking, travel writing, writing | Comments Off on Leading your idea in print down its most profitable path…

A very new format for a seminar workbook…

In a now very long past—decades—I must have literally copied and carted 40,000 seminar workbooks (sometimes a half mile, too often up stairs). Most of those workbooks were 12-20 pages long! Too late to complain: that was the way it was done. But yesterday technology finally removed my shackles—and perhaps my blinders! Some fact-setting now, […]

Sunday June 26th, 2016 in Amazon.com, article writing, articles, blog, blogging, digital publishing, e-publishing, freelance articles, Gordon Burgett, Kindle, Lightning Source, magazine articles, niche marketing, niche publishing, open publishing, pre-testing, public speaking, publishing, querying for article sales, reprints, rewrites, self-publishing, seminar workbook, seminar workbooks, Seminaring, speaking, travel writing, writing | Comments Off on A very new format for a seminar workbook…

Selling one article topic to 5-8 different publications!

“Could you sell the same text, unchanged, to both magazines and newspapers?” is the most often asked question at my writing seminars! I suppose you could, but I wouldn’t because I wouldn’t know how to unravel the rights issues. Anyway, it’d be far more profitable with a lot less work just planning five to eight […]

Wednesday February 10th, 2016 in Amazon Author Central, Amazon.com, article selling, article writing, articles, blog, blogging, e-publishing, editing, freelance articles, Gordon Burgett, Kindle, Kindle, magazine articles, open publishing, publishing, querying for article sales, reprint of a rewrite, reprints, rewrites, sidebars, simultaneous submissions, Smashwords, travel writing, Word Press, writing | Comments Off on Selling one article topic to 5-8 different publications!

Article you’re submitting need a sidebar? Here’s an example…

Typically, as I write a “go-ahead” article, I encounter some additional facts that are so spectacular or unique I think they would make an interesting sidebar or box, in or near the printed article, to excite the readers and add much substance to the article without changing its primary structure. So I write and send […]

Thursday February 4th, 2016 in Amazon Author Central, Amazon.com, article selling, article writing, articles, cover notes, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, Gordon Burgett, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, magazine articles, Nook, publishing, reprints, rewrites, sidebars, simultaneous submissions, Smashwords, writing | Comments Off on Article you’re submitting need a sidebar? Here’s an example…

Stretch one skinny article into five with minimal effort

How would you like to design one article to appear in five different magazines or newsletters that explains the benefits, through example, of your firm’s specialization and why they may want to know more about your services? The best thing: it’s pretty much the same article with a similar message, and the five articles will […]

Tuesday December 22nd, 2015 in article writing, articles, blog, blogging, cover notes, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, freelance articles, magazine articles, newsletter writing, niche marketing, niche publishing, querying for article sales, reprints, rewrites, writing | Comments Off on Stretch one skinny article into five with minimal effort

Some thoughts about interviewing…

This is an excerpt (part of a chapter) from my coming book, Interviewing. I talk about tools and means used to interview: Interviewing is mostly you asking questions to a person or, rarely, a group, and receiving an intelligible response in return. When you record what you asked and what they replied, that is the […]

Monday November 30th, 2015 in 1 Shopping Cart, Amazon Author Central, article selling, article writing, articles, blog, blogging, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, fiction, freelance articles, humor in articles, Kindle, Kindle, magazine articles, newsletter writing, niche marketing, niche publishing, novel writing, open publishing, publishing, query letters for humor writing, querying for article sales, reprint of a rewrite, reprints, rewrites, travel writing, writing | Comments Off on Some thoughts about interviewing…

Author of Self-Publishing Manual, Dan Poynter, has died…

The author of the best-selling Self-Publishing Manual, Dan Poynter, has died. We were “in the trenches” writing friends and I already miss him, in part because it was Dan’s turn to buy lunch. So will thousands more whose lives he touched and changed. He had been quite ill for a while, seemed to be improving, […]

Monday November 9th, 2015 in Amazon Author Central, Amazon.com, article writing, articles, blog, blogging, digital publishing, e-publishing, keynoting, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, magazine articles, niche marketing, niche publishing, open publishing, product development, public speaking, publishing, small publishers, Smashwords, speaking, writing | Comments Off on Author of Self-Publishing Manual, Dan Poynter, has died…

A visible punctuation error that gets writers unbought!

You want to get paid for your wordsmithing by some deep-pocketed, eagle-eyed editor who refuses to rewrite your mistakes, here’s something that can keep you poor and quickly rejected. Even worse, it’s easy to spot before the editor reads a word. Learn how and when to use the “en” and “em” dashes right every time. […]

Tuesday September 29th, 2015 in article selling, article writing, articles, blog, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, fiction, first draft, freelance articles, magazine articles, newsletter writing, niche publishing, novel writing, proofreading, second draft, self-publishing, travel writing, writing | Comments Off on A visible punctuation error that gets writers unbought!

Where might your bio and sales info do you the most good?

If you are digitally displaying your achievements and the products/skills that you have for sale, where might that be shown to your best advantage? Even if it’s only done to delight your kids, prove your prowess to your spouse, or put some strut in your aging parents’ prance, where might they most likely (and logically) […]

Sunday September 13th, 2015 in Amazon Author Central, articles, blog, blogging, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, introductions, keynoting, magazine articles, public speaking, publishing, self-publishing, seminar promotion, URL | Comments Off on Where might your bio and sales info do you the most good?