Project Management for Authors: 5 Steps to Success

by Fritze Roberts

Are you ready to get more out of your life as a writer? Creating publishable books - fiction or nonfiction - requires more than just writing every day. You need to prioritize your best idea, create clean copy, and maybe even work with professional editors and designers. In this concise book, I use my experience as a project manager to show you how to choose the right project, keep motivated, and handle problems you might encounter along the way. There is no better feeling that finishing your manuscript, and I'm here to help you do just that. In Project Management for Authors, you'll learn the five steps to Step 1: Defining Done Step 2: Building Buy-In Step 3: Tracking Progress Step 4: Getting Back on Track Step 5: Celebrating Success If you have lots of creative ideas but need help setting goals you can accomplish, then this little book is for you. It won't be long before you are implementing these tips to get more done.

50 pages, Paperback

Published October 8, 2015

Reviews

[Mary E. Jung · Rating 5 out of 5]

Helpful and Clear

This was easy to understand and the lay out was well done. I liked that writing was approached from a business perspective. Definitely keeping this in my quick reference pile.

[Aimee Eddy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a valuable book for my authors of all genres. Even as a memoir author I found this book very helpful. This is a must have for writers working on books. It has a lot of good advice. I am implementing many of the techniques in writing my next memoir.

[Linda Roller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Writing short stories? A novel? Or an essayist, like me? This book is a great tool to keep your work organized and moving ahead. Written in short chapters, with bullet points and expanded definitions, it helps to not only provide structure, but also gives encouragement to writers. There’s even a chapter on getting back on track when a project has been stalled. It’s a workshop that can sit on your shelf for easy reference.

[Scott Kent · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great presentation of how to use project management as a tool to develop and market the book you always had in you, but didn't know to put into bring out. Simple and well thought out.