I’ve been asked by a number of people; “Why twelve stories in the book?” I don’t know the answer to that really; it just seemed like a somewhat spiritual and mystical and appropriate number to use. There are twelve signs of the zodiac, twelve months a year, twelve apostles, and there are twelve doughnuts in a dozen. I think these are probably as good a reasons as any.
Since this is the first book that I’ve written, I also was thinking about it in terms of manageable, small biographies to write about people. Most popular books it seems are about 300 or so pages, so I figured that if I use twelve stories of about 25 pages each, this would give me the ability to write the stories and end up with about the right size finished book.
I’m going to start a PowerPoint presentation today to develop the marketing plan for the book. I’ve been reading up a bit about how to market a book these days; it’s not really just about putting it on Amazon.com or Barnesandnoble.com, an author must really create a complete and comprehensive marketing plan in order to get the information about the book out there into the marketplace. It seems there are number of coaches that can help in this regard. The one I have found that I rather like is the Arielle Ford.
I think that once I have a sample story or two for the book, as well as some introductory pages, I think I would like to hire Arielle or a coach like her in order to help me get the book to an appropriate publisher.
Since this is the first book that I’ve written, I also was thinking about it in terms of manageable, small biographies to write about people. Most popular books it seems are about 300 or so pages, so I figured that if I use twelve stories of about 25 pages each, this would give me the ability to write the stories and end up with about the right size finished book.
I’m going to start a PowerPoint presentation today to develop the marketing plan for the book. I’ve been reading up a bit about how to market a book these days; it’s not really just about putting it on Amazon.com or Barnesandnoble.com, an author must really create a complete and comprehensive marketing plan in order to get the information about the book out there into the marketplace. It seems there are number of coaches that can help in this regard. The one I have found that I rather like is the Arielle Ford.
I think that once I have a sample story or two for the book, as well as some introductory pages, I think I would like to hire Arielle or a coach like her in order to help me get the book to an appropriate publisher.
