In episode 4 of Entrepreneur to Author, I speak to Tracy Angwin, founder of Australian Payroll Association, author of The Payroll Revolution, and the authority on payroll in Australia.Tracy’s company offers advisory services, education and specialist payroll recruitment services. While her business started strongly, she struggled to find new clients after picking the low-hanging fruit.However, everything changed […]
Continue readingIf you want to sell your book on Amazon you have three options:1Sell a printed book (hardcover, paperback or both)2Sell a Kindle version3Sell an audio versionThe most successful authors sell all three. Why? Because people process information differently.I love the smell of new books. I love curling up on the couch with a book. I […]
Continue readingIn episode 3 of Entrepreneur to Author we speak with Anneka Manning, an author, presenter, cooking teacher, home economist, mother of two and founder of BakeClub.Over the past 23 years Anneka has worked for an impressive list of leading food publications – including Australian Gourmet Traveller, Australian Good Taste, The Australian Women’s Weekly and The Sydney Morning Herald – as […]
Continue readingWhen you’re hiring someone to pick your book apart and put it back together as they see fit, correcting all of those pesky apostrophes and typos as they go, you want to make sure you find the right person.So how do you do choose an editor? Everyone can say, do or be anything online, so […]
Continue readingIn Episode 2 of Entrepreneur to Author I speak to Sandy McDonald, founder of The Clan Makers, WhyYouMustBlog.com and KasCare, and author of Clans – Supercharge Your Business.After 22 years running a marketing communications company, she used passionate blogging to build an online community to help the children orphaned in southern Africa as a result […]
Continue readingLast week Dr Jim Taylor published a blog post on Seattle PI where he debated whether or not self-published authors are really authors (and whether or not they are really published, for that matter).From his post: “At the same time, the self-publishing industry has allowed anyone with a computer and a small amount of money […]
Continue readingIn Episode 1 of Entrepreneur to Author I speak to author, speaker and entrepreneur Darren Finkelstein.Darren has been messing about in boats for most of his life. His father introduced him to fishing and his first boating experience was learning to water ski in Melbourne. He bought his first boat at age 18 in partnership […]
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Some of us know we want to be authors. We know there’s a book in us, just waiting to come out. We yearn to see our names in print, and start impacting lives with our words.Some of us can’t be bothered. It would be nice to have a book, but it seems like a lot […]
Continue readingIn 2012 I was a snob. I believed that self-publishing was for amateurs, and any writer worth her salt would get a deal with a traditional publisher.Six months into 2013, my perspective flipped. Not only was I an advocate for self-publishing, but I created a business to work with self-publishing entrepreneurs.So why do I think […]
Continue readingI’m in an entrepreneurial coaching program where we’re all expected to write and self-publish a book. And, back when we had our in-person day on publishing, a number of the people in the room tried to argue that they didn’t need to hire an editor.Here’s why:I can do it myselfThe argument goes something like: English is […]
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