Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Along with my writing partner Johnnie, I’ve written about a dozen short & sweet eBooks.
About me, I’m a writer’s writer – whatever that means.
I am the eBook Queen!
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
HOW TO WRITE YOUR NONFICTION BOOK FAST
AND MAKE IT YOUR BUSINESS CALLING CARD
WRITE YOUR BOOK IN 10 DAYS OR LESS
Grow your business
Teach people how to do something
Evangelize your cause
Position yourself as an authority
Land clients in any industry
Get leads and product sales
Be your best resume ever
Create wealth and fame
Write a Bestseller
I was inspired to write because I saw there was a need to show entrepreneurs and small business owners, how they could write a book and use it to crack open the door of opportunities to scale their business.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I hang upside like a bat and write. Kidding. I tend to keep a very low key when writing. Essentially, I pause and/or limit all leisure activities. Leisure activities aren’t the same as doing essential things. However, I limit social media, don’t do any chit chatting on the phone, no socializing with friends, not a big TV watcher, but no TV, limit Netflix, and limit podcast until bedtime.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I’m totally influenced by many internet authors. One person who stands out to me is author Steve Scott because he’s writing affordable and helpful eBooks for readers and making a killing while doing it.
The book I’m reading now and it’s having an influence on me is Who is Killing the great authors of Amazon. It’s freaking hilarious.
What are you working on now?
I’m working on an eBook about book marketing. In the book, I’ll share simple and inexpensive ways to market.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Start with a great book cover and book description and half of your marketing battle is won. If the first book cover and description does not get you the results, then it’s OK to change the cover and tinker with the book description until it’s a winning combination. As far as the best websites to promote books; I suggest that you start with sites like this one that let you promote for free or a small fee. Another thing to keep in mind is to do something to market your book each day, and at the very least, as often as you can. Marketing your book should be ongoing.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Put just as much effort into your marketing strategies as you do writing. So many really outstanding books languish in no man’s land, while mediocre books rise like cream to the top, simply because the author is a master marketer or has paid someone for marketing services. Marketing is the key to Book success.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
This is the best advice I’ve heard lately and it comes from Bruce Lee.
If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
What are you reading now?
I’m reading like 10 eBooks, seriously. I have this habit of buying or downloading eBooks every single day. Then I start reading all of them and usually some of them can’t hold my attention for one reason or another. However, one or two usually stand out from the pack.
Today, that book is The Art of Book Marketing by Harshajyoti Das. He’s better known as Harsh.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m working on an eBook about book marketing in which I bring the readers along on my marketing journey and share what is and is not working and why. I’m also gearing up to teach my writing boot camp in the summer of 2015.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
James Baldwin’s Go tell it on the mountain (I love all things Baldwin). Jeff Walker’s Launch (probably because I really need to read a book like that at this point in my life). Soulful Vagina (just to mix things up, I’d bring that book for the humor and erotica, hell if I’m stranded, I’m going to need a good reason to laugh).
Author Websites and Profiles
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