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Write Your Ebook or Other Short Book - Fast!
by Judy Cullins

If you want to get your unique, useful message out, brand your business, and make a great lifelong income, read bookcoach Judy Cullins' print or eBook "Write your eBook or Other Short Book Fast!" It defies the myths that your book will take too long, take too much effort, or it won't sell. Her "Fast-Forward Writing Technique" and "Essential 9 Hot Selling Points" guides you all the way so that every part of your book helps sell itself.

 
         
         
   

Writing and Developing College Textbook Supplements
by Mary Ellen Lepionka

A practical guide for creating instructional materials to accompany textbooks and to support courses of study. An introduction to publishing industry standards and best practices for print and electronic products and content, including instructor’s manuals, annotated editions, test banks, study guides, readers, lab manuals, transparency sets, audios and videos, multimedia, learning objects, web sites, e-texts, and online courses. Written by an expert development editor in higher education publishing and the author of Writing and Developing Your College Textbook (Atlantic Path Publishing 2003).

 
         
         
   

Make Money Writing: Turn Passion Into Profit
by Maureen Stephenson

Novice and professional authors will find that this book is a "can-do" guide through the publishing labyrinth. Written without "fluff" from experience of a published author/ newspaper columnist, you know the methods work.  It is filled with current resources for selling E-books, magazine articles, and self-published books.
  

Used as a California college course textbook, taught by the author, it teaches that writing is your "business" and must be treated as such.  Topics include writing for money while completing your dream project, to PR and Internet Marketing. Step-by-step, the writer is led through every phase and given resources, marketing and money-saving tips for everything from contracts to equipment.  The 31 page appendix is packed with information and in itself is worth the price of the book.

 
         
         
   

On Writing
By Stephen King

Stephen King's On Writing really contains two books: a fondly sardonic autobiography and a tough-love lesson for aspiring novelists. The memoir is a vivid description of how a writer grew out of a misbehaving kid. King also evokes his college days and his recovery from the van crash that nearly killed him, but the focus is always on what it all means to the craft. He gives you a whole writer's "tool kit": a reading list, writing assignments, a corrected story, and nuts-and-bolts advice on dollars and cents, plot and character, the basic building block of the paragraph, and literary models.

King isn't just a writer, he's a true teacher.

 
         
         
   

The Complete Writer: A Guide to Tapping Your Full Potential
By Bev Walton-Porter

The Complete Writer goes beyond the standard treatise on how to publish and market your work - instead, it touches on a variety of elements that encompass a writer's personal and professional life. From helpful information on how to research and organize your work to tips on developing partnerships and managing the business of writing, it covers all the bases.