Get your name on the list NOW, to register for the next circle!

Do you have valuable, unique information that needs to be published? The InspireABook Mastermind Circle is facilitated by a publisher who wants to give you a publishing contract!

• Do you want a simple system to help you transform your writing into a book?
• Do you have lots of material already in the form of journal notes, essays and newsletters/blog notes and want to know how to organize them into a book?
• Do you just have an idea or a picture and a burning need to get a message out there?
• Are you half way through your manuscript or think you have finished, and need to know what the next step is?

ONLY $595.00ca

January 26th & 27th
Vancouver, BC

February 9th & 10th
Location to be confirmed

March (to be confirmed)

April (to be confirmed)

The InspireABook Mastermind system is facilitated by the Publisher. The Mastermind publishing circle harnesses the collaborative, transformational talent of like-minded writers, facilitating a space to clarify and crystallize the purpose of your book. The Publisher gently guides the circle to transform the vision of each book into the bigger purpose of how that message can make a difference in the world. If you follow the program, listen to the advice and are committed, you have an excellent chance of winning a publishing contract with Influence Publishing.

NOW with a guarantee!

When you attend the Mastermind Circle you will clearly understand the purpose of your book and will work on the “packaging” to ensure your are delivering the key message (whether your book is just an idea or you are half way through or you have completed the manuscript) I guarantee that at the end of the two day circle you will have:

• Working title/sub-title, synopsis/back page sales copy
• Table of contents and working chapter titles and a clear writing plan!
• A clear plan how to publish your book!

For more information:
contact@InspireABook.com
250-746-9989

Woman Of Worth WOW Events

       Three New Books Launching!

Denene Derksen – “Dancing with Fire – Two women who fall out of the Ordinary”

Dr.Manon Bolliger – “What Patients Don’t Say If Doctors Don’t Ask – The mindful patient doctor relationship”

Mary Tasi – “Spirit Memory – Igniting the Ancestral Memory of Aboriginal and Hungarian forgotten Ties”

Woman Of Worth WOW Events

       Three New Books Launching!

Denene Derksen – “Dancing with Fire – Two women who fall out of the Ordinary”

Dr.Manon Bolliger – “What Patients Don’t Say If Doctors Don’t Ask – The mindful patient doctor relationship”

Mary Tasi – “Spirit Memory – Igniting the Ancestral Memory of Aboriginal and Hungarian forgotten Ties”

Suitable at any of stage of your book project, this is not a writing workshop, it is a publishing workshop that will help you take your idea to market.  If you just have an idea you will learn how to turn that idea into the platform of a book, if you have a half finished manuscript it will help you to clarify and organize your writing in the best way to win a publishing contract.  If you have journal notes, blogs, workshop curriculum or articles, you’re half way there already!  The InspireABook system will show you how to organize that content into a book!

Only $197 – Hurry Early bird price ends September 9th!

Register at www.inspireabook.com/classes

Dr. Love is announced the winner of the Best Brilliant Idea for Humanity Competition

Dr. Love and his relationship boardgame “Synchrohearts”, was just annouced as the winner of the Best Brilliant Idea for Humanity Contest (BBIFH)  www.bestideaforhumanity.com/about.cfm

This global contest was launched in 2010 to find entrepreneurs who were making a difference in the world with their business. This week a panel of judges (including Jack Canfield, Robert Evans, Brendon Buchard, Janet and Chris Attwood) selected local entrepreneur Dr. Love as
the winner of the BBIFH contest, who is awarded a Launch Marketing package
worth $50,000.

Dr. Love (Bobby O’Neal from Mission, BC) is no stranger to competitions and media appearances. He has appeared twice on the CBC Dragons’ Den and well as many radio shows across North America.  He originally produced this lovegame to help enhance his own marriage, and has now sold thousands with orders from as far away as
Iran and Australia.

How Will Your Book Make a Difference? – Part1

January 27, 2010 in Get Published by Julie | No comments (edit)

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.

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.

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.

We all have a story inside of us worth telling whether it is about your travels, your memoirs or a business book to support your business. How many shoe boxes are full of photos, letters and research material and book ideas hidden in the closet or under the bed? How much writing already exists that you have used in newsletters, promotional material and blog submissions which you could turn into a book? For business people who already give workshops, seminars or speaking engagements the material is already written! So why not turn all that material into a book? Because most believe it is beyond their reach to achieve that and they don’t have time to do it!

I know this because I recently self-published my own first book, successfully sold it into all the local bookstores, and received credibility and respect as a first time author. Since publishing my book my business has blossomed, the local media here in Victoria B.C. the capital of Canada, jumped at the opportunity to report on a local author. I have been interviewed by Shaw TV Daily show (and it’s already been repeated 3 times) Local radio shows including CFAX1070AM radio who have interviewed me over 6 times and the local press have run several articles. In fact it has had such a huge impact on my life, my mission and purpose now has become to inspire and motivate other people to tell their stories and become first time authors.

Why is it that so many people feel overwhelmed by the challenge of writing a book? First understand it IS a time-consuming process and it does require lots of research and quiet reflective time, a precious commodity so few of us have. It actually took me 18 months to write my first book, but now I have developed a method to make this process easier, and my second book will probably only take a few months to complete. The other key is giving yourself the reflective quiet time to start, and to do this you must commit to taking yourself away from your normal environment where you will be distracted by the normal routine of life (family, emails, TV, constant interruptions). I strongly suggest you start by choosing a writing retreat for your vacation or a weekend workshop or writing group that meet on a regular basis. If you don’t have to time for any of these, the least you should do is take your laptop or notepad/binder to your local coffee shop twice a week to work on your book. Here in Victoria we have a large book store called Chapters that has a wonderful coffee shop on the premises, authors can work on their book while being inspired by other authors surrounding them!

I run workshops for first time authors in a “retreat” environment, away from the daily interruptions of life; my choice is a beautiful inspiring environment like Peru or the Copper Canyon in Mexico, the perfect environment to get away from it all! The more I thought about that, the more I realized the mobile binder system I had developed to organize the book writing process was perfect for traveling! A favorite pastime when we go on vacation is to read a book, why not WRITE a book while on vacation, away from those distractions and with plenty of contemplative and inspirational time.