Registration is now open to the general public for the weekend InspireABook Intensive workshop, please do not hesitate registering since the maximum group size is limited to 8.  We already have more than 8 people who could not attend the July 3rd/4th class so registration will be awarded on firm registration payment only  at www.inspireabook.com/classes  Please call 250 746 9989 or email contact@inspireabook.com if you would like to check availability first.

Hurry!  Maximum of 10 per workshop.  I guarantee that at the end of the 2 day intensive workshop you will have completed your book project, a working title/sub-title, synopsis/back page sales copy, Table of contents and working chapter titles, and a clear writing plan!  Guaranteed or you get FREE private coaching until you have achieved this!  I can guarantee this because I have never had a single writer NOT achieve this in my workshop – and that is hundreds of writers!!  Stop procrastinating NOW!

Extra dates will be added in July so get on the waiting list NOW! Register for any workshop before the end of June and Beat the HST!

What is stopping you from sharing your knowledge and experience? Don’t let Fear and Ego get in the way of writing and publishing your book.

The biggest obstacle for writing your book always comes down to fear and ego, these are the top 3 objections:

• Is my story interesting enough?
• Will people be interested in reading it?
• Is my writing good enough?

When in reality you should be asking yourself:

• How can I be of service to others with my book?
• How can I help other people with the knowledge and experience I have?
• How can I best get that knowledge across so it is easy for the reader to understand?

Asking these tough questions up front will help you organize your book with the benefits to the reader always at the forefront of your outline.  The most challenging questions I always ask are at the beginning of my InspireABook™ workshops are:

1. Who is your reader? (i.e. age, sex, demographics, customers, friends, family or specific group i.e. cancer patients, entrepreneurs, parents etc,)
2. What will they learn by reading your book? (i.e. educational, inspirational, motivational etc)

Once you can answer these questions we have learnt the focus of your book and from here we organize your content to always reflect the lessons you want your reader to learn in a way it is easy for them to learn.

The latest book we published for Dr Gerry Fewster “Don’t Let Your Kids be Normal”  is a good example of understanding your reader.  Gerry had been published previously by an Academic press but he wanted to make sure this 4th book got into the hands of parents.  We had to change his language and present his book in a different way to make it attractive to parents and carefully select a title and image to reflect that.

What is stopping you from sharing your knowledge and experience? Don’t let Fear and Ego get in the way of writing and publishing your book.

The biggest obstacle for writing your book always comes down to fear and ego, these are the top 3 objections:

• Is my story interesting enough?
• Will people be interested in reading it?
• Is my writing good enough?

When in reality you should be asking yourself:

• How can I be of service to others with my book?
• How can I help other people with the knowledge and experience I have?
• How can I best get that knowledge across so it is easy for the reader to understand?

Asking these tough questions up front will help you organize your book with the benefits to the reader always at the forefront of your outline.  The most challenging questions I always ask are at the beginning of my InspireABook™ workshops are:

1. Who is your reader? (i.e. age, sex, demographics, customers, friends, family or specific group i.e. cancer patients, entrepreneurs, parents etc,)
2. What will they learn by reading your book? (i.e. educational, inspirational, motivational etc)

Once you can answer these questions we have learnt the focus of your book and from here we organize your content to always reflect the lessons you want your reader to learn in a way it is easy for them to learn.

The latest book we published for Dr Gerry Fewster “Don’t Let Your Kids be Normal”  is a good example of understanding your reader.  Gerry had been published previously by an Academic press but he wanted to make sure this 4th book got into the hands of parents.  We had to change his language and present his book in a different way to make it attractive to parents and carefully select a title and image to reflect that.

I already have a waiting list for this date for those people who were unable to attend the June 12th/13th event (which has opened up more space for this date now).  Those people will get priority registration so don’t delay if you want to attend.  The class sizes are restricted to ensure lots of personal attention on your book.

Special for Toastmasters – $295  (Usual Price $495) – Township of Langley Center

Not exclusive to toastmasters, all welcome.

InspireABook Intensive weekend workshop – highly interactive small group workshop (max 16) to work on your book and get lots of feedback. Understand your reader,  the purpose of your book, the importance of presenting it professionally and all your publishing options.  Only $495 – if you are a Toastmaster you qualify for the special price of $295, for non-toastmasters see latest newsletter for special offers or email contact@inspireabook.com.

NEW!  I guarantee that even if you come to this workshop with just vague ideas, you will leave with a clear writing plan and understand your publishing options.  I guarantee you will have a synopsis, working title/subtitle, Table of contents and working chapter titles!  If you have not achieved this by the end of the workshop I will give you free coaching until you have!

New Dates!  Now in Vancouver/Lower Mainland June 12/13th – Limited places register early!

InspireABook Intensive weekend workshop

Shawnigan Lake, Vancouver Island, B.C.  May 29th/30th

Vancouver/Lower Mainland – June 12th/13th – Langley

Want to accelerate your book project in a weekend?  This workshop will jump start you and put you on track!  Even if you just have vague ideas for a book I guarantee you will leave this workshop with a synopsis, table of contents and chapter titles and a clear writing plan – or I will coach you for free until you do!

Highly interactive small group workshop to work on your book project and get lots of feedback. Understand your reader,  the purpose of your book,  how to organize the content and chapters, the importance of presenting it professionally and all your publishing options.  Only $495 – see latest issue of Newsletter for special offers as low as $295..  Maximum group size for Shawnigan Lake is 8 in an intimate setting in Shawnigan Lake, outside patio sitting if weather permits.  Maximum group size for Langley 16, register early to avoid disappointment.

This workshop gave me a new way to conceptualize the topic – Susan Blackwood

Great workshop, lots of information covered over 2 days, helped me identify a theme, excellent worksheets for building my back page sales copy, as well as helpful feedback from the group – Jo-Ann Loro (fiction writer)

This workshop got me motivated and gave me a step by step process I can follow to get the job done – Rachelle Lamb

This was exactly what I needed, providing a structure for organizing my writing and ideas – Rebecca Kennel

Across North America and Europe youngsters are being tagged and labelled as ‘problems’ and subjected to the remedial devices of the experts and the pharmaceutical companies. The statistics are staggering. We are now at the point where even babies and toddlers are being treated for depression, disobedience, anxiety, attachment disorders, hyper-activity and an escalating list of syndromes invented to let parents off the hook.

Fewsters new book “Don’t Let your kids be Normal” contends that current parenting, teaching and professional practices are generally ineffective and repressive. Encouraging, or coercing children to follow in our footsteps is the worst possible option.
http://www.newsreleasewire.com/31761

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FREE TeleSeminar  – Turning your blogs into books

If you are writing a business book you need to listen to this one!

April 13th 7pm PST – Register online and dial in to the conference line,  questions will be taken.

Turning your blogs into books – This one hour teleseminar presented by Peak Performance Lifestyles is facilitated by Julie Salisbury of InspireABook and is packed full of tips to help you turn all your existing content into a book.  Every entrepreneur should have a book to represent their business, find out how easy it can be to publish your own business book.

There will be a 15 minute question session, if you have a burning question about writing and publishing your business book please email your question now to contact@inspireabook.com with Question for teleseminar in the subject line.

Click here to register:

http://peakperformancelifestyles.com/2010/turn-your-blogs-into-books/

One Day Publishing workshop April 25th 9.30am – 4.30pm  Victoria, B.C. Canada

If your manuscript is finished or well under way,  understand all your options for publishing and what is the best for your book, plus personal feedback on whether your book would be suitable for submission to one of the publishing partners InspireABook works with in the UK, USA and Canada.  For more information www.inspireabook.com/classes

If you’re wondering whether you should submit your book to an agent, mainstream publisher or self publish or confused about new media publishing, print on demand and e-books, this workshop is for you!

Only $197 – Places are limited register now

I realized when I started my second book that the mobile binder system provided the perfect way to capture my inspirational moments and organize my research material. I no longer had to start my book at chapter one, I actually started it 2/3rds of the way through, simply because I had lots of research material already collated for that particular subject.

By the time I had written about my current situation my mind had already worked out how the chapter before led up to this time and how the chapter following would be formed. I was no longer restricting my imagination and inspiration to just focus on that one story at a time, because all the stories were linked! I didn’t need to write all the chapters at once – just scribble a note to myself and put it in the relevant research section for later! I had these inspirational moments on the bus, walking the beach, standing in line at the grocery store and even in the shower. I just wrote myself a quick note so I didn’t lose the idea and then filed it away in my bookbuilding binder. I call these “inspirational bundles” and use clear pockets to keep each “bundle” of notes together, eventually these will inspire my chapter titles for my book.

I realized when I started my second book that the mobile binder system provided the perfect way to capture my inspirational moments and organize my research material. I no longer had to start my book at chapter one, I actually started it 2/3rds of the way through, simply because I had lots of research material already collated for that particular subject.

By the time I had written about my current situation my mind had already worked out how the chapter before led up to this time and how the chapter following would be formed. I was no longer restricting my imagination and inspiration to just focus on that one story at a time, because all the stories were linked! I didn’t need to write all the chapters at once – just scribble a note to myself and put it in the relevant research section for later! I had these inspirational moments on the bus, walking the beach, standing in line at the grocery store and even in the shower. I just wrote myself a quick note so I didn’t lose the idea and then filed it away in my bookbuilding binder. I call these “inspirational bundles” and use clear pockets to keep each “bundle” of notes together, eventually these will inspire my chapter titles for my book.

So how much does this all cost? You can print just one book if you like and buy your books on demand averaging $6.50 a copy plus an initial set-up cost (starting at around $150 if you self publish using LightingSource) or you could opt to buy your own stock for back of room sales and reduce the cost per copy to $6. If you retail your book at $20 that means you net $14 for each sale! That’s a much better return than traditional publishers will give you (An average royalty is around 5% which would net you $1.50 per book – you need to sell nearly 10 times more books to get the same return!)

There are lots of options depending on how many you want to print, how many pages your book is and how it will be bound. These examples are taken straight from some of my quotes from a local Print on Demand printer based on approx 200 pages and full colour cover. There are many things to consider when choosing a printer/publisher including the quality of their print and paper (do you get bleed through on the print to the reverse page?). Most important is the level of service they are offering you, some allow free uploads (i.e. no set-up costs) but remember nothing is for free and there is usually a catch like signing over the rights to your book or only receiving a small royalty for each book sold. What other services do they offer? Do they offer educational programs to help you produce a professional looking book? Do they give advice on layout and design and what distribution services do they offer (i.e. Amazon, Barnes and Noble, online book store, ISBN No. Barcode and copyright) Is your book printed locally or is it shipped out to a 3rd world country where print and paper quality can be an issue.