The Best Book On How To Be Successful As A Writer?
What's your definition of success as a writer?
Lots of money? Lots of books? Both? Something else??
I just may have discovered the best book to read, no matter how you want to be successful…
And, even though it's called The Newbie's Guide To Publishing, I feel it can help those who've already attained a bit of publishing success to find even more.
The author is Joe Konrath, and, if you click-through on that name-link you'll read stuff like this:
"Konrath…spent…12 years garnering close to five hundred rejections for nine unpublished novels."
He now has 12 published novels, 15 tie-in stories, and 22 other stories.
If you want an independent and forthright blog to read, his is it!
In January of this year, Konrath wrote:
"One hundred grand [$100,000]. That's how much I've made on Amazon in the last three weeks.
"This is just for my self-pubbed Kindle titles. It doesn't include Shaken and Stirred, which were published by Amazon's imprints. It doesn't include any of my legacy sales, print or ebook. It doesn't include audiobook sales. It doesn't include sales from other platforms.
"This is from my self-pubbed books. The ones the Big 6 rejected."
Needless to say, since I discovered him, Joe Konrath has been referenced on this blog many times.
So, that book by him has over 360,000 words. And, you can get The Newbie's Guide To Publishing, FREE!
If you still feel hesitant, I'll let Barry Eisler, best-selling novelist, speak to you from the forward to Konrath's book:
"There's no one in the industry more knowledgeable than Joe about both the craft and business of writing. A Newbie's Guide is the result of years-worth of thought, research, discussion, and, most of all, experience. Want to know how to develop compelling characters? Write crackling dialogue? Run the kind of guerilla marketing campaign publishers only dream of? Put together a cost-effective, kick-ass book tour? Want to maximize your chances of getting and staying published? Then you need to read Joe. This is a guy who never accepts the conventional wisdom, who never does anything just because that's the way it's always been done, who's totally unafraid to try new things, who's remarkably honest in reporting the results of his experiments, and who's obsessed with sharing for free his uniquely valuable insights. Yeah, you can get published without reading Joe. But you can drive a car with the parking brake on, too — it's just not the fastest way to get there."
And, if you still don't want to download Joe's book, here's a video from 2009 with Joe giving quite a bit of advice:
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