Review: Great Outline For Those Who Understand that Success Requires Work
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2014
This book offers a thorough, step by step outline that will take you from an idea for a book through to it's writing, publishing and marketing.However, this is NOT a get rich quick scheme. To really follow Nancy's outline step by step will take real WORK. While she shows just how you could write a non fiction book in 72 hours, this does not mean you can do it over night. In fact 72 hours at 2 1/2 hours a day equates to about a month of solid, focused work.This has been done by well known authors. Nancy quotes James Patterson who's latest deal will mean 1 book every 48 days and Leo Babauta of Zen Habits who wrote a 110,000 word book in less than a month.Nancy lists 3 kinds of writers:The Crap Writer - which in no way does she support.The Slow Writer - who takes months to write a bookThe Fast Writer - who has disciplined him or herself to focus and write quickly (about something they KNOW)Once your book is written, Nancy takes you through the steps to prepare, publish and market your book. She also outlines the pros and cons of different marketing strategies that include how to get book reviews.I purchased an earlier edition of this book and then was recently offered a copy of the 2014 edition in exchange for an honest review. I accepted this offer so I could catch up on the latest updates.If you are planning on writing for Kindle, this book definitely needs to be in your library.