Writing Skills Series

Start and Finish the Book You Were Born to Write Newly updated for 2015, Write (and Publish) Your First Non-Fiction Book is an intuitive, invaluable, and inspirational guide to writing with over 125 five-star Amazon reviews! Author Nancy Hendrickson knows non-fiction. After all, she's written 29 books on a variety of topics and hundreds of magazine articles. Using her immense experience, follow Nancy's five-step blueprint to quickly write your own non-fiction book, publish it, and immediately begin selling it on Amazon's Kindle platform. In the latest edition of this writer's cornucopia, you'll learn: Why you need to go indie How to write up to 2,000 words per hour What strategies to follow to go from outline to published in just 72 hours Which free, high-value marketing strategies work the best How to use a wide variety of tools for writing, publishing, and promotion Featuring Nancy's five-step blueprint for quickly outlining, researching, writing, polishing, and publishing in as little as 72 hours, readers called the no-nonsense book a direct, comprehensive, much-needed guide for self-publishing. Since its first publication, Nancy has gone above and beyond to supplement the book with sections on the latest topics, including: Kindle Unlimited Kindle Pre-Orders Marketing Podcasts Email Autoresponder Sequences Writing Killer Book Descriptions The Best Keywords For Your Niche Real-Life Marketing Case Studies And Much, Much More! Are you ready to make more money, create a great book, and finally live out your dream?

Improve your writing and enhance your creativity with the power of imagery. Let's face it. Some authors write so beautifully with such vivid description that it makes you question your own abilities. You want to write compelling books, but sometimes it feels like you got the short end of the creativity stick. What if you could tap into an unknown source of writing eloquence that's present in every human mind? What if one book could give you the tools you need to write descriptions that jump right off the page? What many struggling writers forget is that humans are visual creatures. Because "seeing" is a more natural way to express, we're drawn to imagery for inspiration. The Visual Writer allows you to tap into the power of photos to give you a new perspective and renewed creative energy. Attacking Creativity From the Side Albert Einstein once said, "I live my daydreams in music." He and other famous creatives often turned to seemingly unrelated creative endeavors to help them when they were stuck. He called this the "combinatory play" of the mind. Using Einstein's methodology, author Nancy Hendrickson provides you with impressive imagery to use as a creative function in your writing. By stepping outside of words and using imagery and other creative outlets, you'll add depth, color, and vibrancy to your writing. Through the use of Nancy's book, your jealousy of "beautiful writing" will fade as you create your own rich tapestry of words. Soon enough, you'll be the author other writers are envious of. Let Nancy show you the way. (This book was originally published as Vanquish Writer’s Block) Vanquish Writer's Block! is a new approach to get you out of your writing funk and into a creative flow state. Nancy's latest book is quirky, stimulating, thought-provoking, and unconventional. Use it to fill your head with incredible ideas.

Evernote® : The Free Online Service for Organizing Your Projects If you scribble notes on the back of envelopes and napkins and then manage to forget the idea or where you put the napkin - you need Evernote. This service will organize all of your projects and ideas into online file folders, keeping them safe until the day you hit the Delete key.  Evernote : The Key to Uncluttering Your Desktop, Your Browser and Your Brain If you're a writer you won't believe how you survived before you started using Evernote. And I'm not only talking about people who write for a living - I'm also talking about people who write for business or school. Evernote really is the storehouse of random thoughts meeting notes research images book outlines project outlines audio interviews deadlines assignments collaborative notes in other words - anything you need to remember. In fact, Evernote is so good at what it does that the company's motto is Remember Everything.  Don't Risk Losing Important Writing or Research  Back in the day it was easy to stuff pieces of paper into a filing cabinet. Chances are that once the paper was filed you rarely went back to it. Even now, you may use your computer as a filing system - exchanging metal file drawers for hard drive Folders and Sub-Folders. But even that system has its limits. That's because it relies on you remembering the names of folders and files.  With Evernote, the entire system is graphical - that means you can click on an Evernote folder and instantly see the picture of the website, screenshot or image you saved. Which reminds me - did I mention you can also save audio and video files? And, Evernote syncs perfectly with your tablet, iPhone or Android. Evernote has such a powerful on-board search engine that all you have to do is enter a word or two and it will pull up everything you've saved that fits the search criteria. You don't have to remember anything because it remembers everything. What You'll Learn how to set up your account downloading Evernote for your mobile device or desktop syncing between devices setting up Folders and Notes the value of tagging how to be an Evernote power searcher setting up research notebooks mobile Evernote Evernote apps how to collect digital content how to use Skitch - the free Evernote mark-up app tagging geolocations how to use Evernote with the iPhone's Siri free ways to store tweets, Facebook posts and more to Evernote and bunches more. Written for Writers But Useable by Anyone How to Use Evernote for Writing & Research was created for writers - but the truth is, if you need to remember anything, save anything, or return to any website, Evernote is your perfect go-to assistant. That's probably why Evernote is popular with writers, artists, bloggers, podcasters, business people, students, and researchers. That includes YOU!

What's the secret to selling more indie and self-published books on the Kindle platform? It all starts with a great book - but after that, success hinges on your ability to effectively promote what you've written. For a few authors, promotion is easy. For most, it's not only a labyrinth of confusing pathways, it's also a huge time-suck.  In Sell More Books: 55 Free Indie Promos for Authors That Work, you'll learn how to focus on the promotional methods that fit both your personality and your genre. Boost Your Book Sales to New Levels If you're like a lot of authors, your book is getting good reviews but only selling a copy or two a day, if that. One of the reasons for static sales is the reality that competition between indie authors is high and getting higher. What makes one author more successful than another, given the fact that their books are similar in content and quality? The ability to promote your book to the people who are desperate to read what you've written. For non-fiction authors this may mean creatively marketing to readers who want to know more about dog training, paleo diets, or extreme sports. For those who write novels, you have a whole world waiting for the next romance, mystery or thriller. The good news is, there are dozens of ways to promote your books - in fact the authors had trouble sticking to only 55 - but the challenge is to find the ones that work for you and for your book. Sell More Books: 55 Free Promotions That Work is the answer. Discover 55 Free Promotional Ideas Because all writers are unique, we've detailed 55 different ways to promote your books, all based on your comfort level and your personality. Inside our guide you'll find the promo methods for indie authors: The Big Five - Social Media that counts The Rock Star - You know who you are!   The Emily Dickinson - You truly love to write   The Best Friend - Everyone loves you   The Wizard - Your middle name is SEO   Get more books sales by using the promo methods that work for YOU. Start Working on Your Promo Strategies Today

Jump Start Your Imagination! If you write you know there are days when the words are as flat as a bad hair day. That's when you need a little something extra to get the juices flowing and the virtual pen moving. And I'm not talking about coffee, vino or other jump-starters! The Creative Writer - 60 Days of (delicious) Writing Prompts ensures that even the worst of your writing days can sparkle using this combination of words and pictures. Why pictures? Because sometimes words just don't cut it alone. Use this book for 60 days, 20 days, or 365 days by randomly picking a day and just seeing where the words and images take you.  The Creative Writer was created by an author with 30 books to her credit - and a long history of using images to get her writing out of the doldrums and into sparkly brilliance!