Amazon and Barnes & Noble offer a free sample (first 10% of the book) for Kindle or Nook readers and free excerpts from this book have appeared on blogs and in eZines around the internet :
Marketing a Book – Where to Start
Selling a Book to Publishers: Groundwork
Using Word to Compress Images
Changing MS Word’s Default Format
Writing for – Magazines_E-Zines
Writing for – Kindle Your Blog
Writing for – Blogging
Writing for – Online Communal Publishers
Writing for – Where to Publish
Writing for Profit or Pleasure; Where to Publish Your Work, is 146 pages, 30,000 words of concise, insightful information about where and how a writer can achieve publication of their writings. Whether you write for income or for the joy of it, whether you aspire to write on-line or for print, this book has a wealth of information to help you find and secure publication.
Chapters included in the book are:
Chapter 2 Online Communal Publishers
Chapter 3 Blogging
Chapter 4 Kindle Your Blog
Chapter 5 Magazines and EZines
Chapter 6 Formatting for eBook Conversion
Chapter 7 Kindle EBook
Chapter 8 Formatting for ePub
Chapter 9 Publishing a PDF Book
Chapter 10 Using a Vanity Press
Chapter 11 Getting in with Legacy Book Publishers
Chapter 12 Writing for Article Brokers
Chapter 13 Writing for Newspapers
Allan Douglas has been writing and publishing through a variety of venues since the late 1970′s. His first commercially published book came in 1984. A full listing of his writing career is available at his writer’s blog: http://AllanDouglas.com/blog/about-me/
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April 27, 2011 at 5:44 pm — Mike from Alabama says:
Although this wasn’t a book that would normally interest me, since I’m not a writer, blogger, etc., it still kept me engaged while reading it. I think that somebody who IS a writer and looking to get something published will really enjoy this book! I really only have two comments of things that stood out to me:
Page 124 – “If you’re going to stick a foot in their door, make sure it’s your best looking foot.” I LOVE THAT!!!
Page 33 – “Kindle blogs may be the ultimate long-tail phenomenon.” I had absolutely NO idea what that meant and had to Bing it. Then again, I’m not exactly up-to-date with blogging slang and phrases, so that might not be a bad thing. But it did make me stop reading for a minute, say, “Huh?!?” before I could continue on.
So, bottom line for me – if I was ever to write something and want to publish it, this is a great guide on how to do so. I believe you’ve got a winner here! GOOD LUCK!!
Posted to The Write Stuff: July 5th 2011
A Great How-To by a True Pro!
Writing for Profit or Pleasure: Where to Publish Your Work will prove an indispensable asset to anyone seeking to enter the world of publication. After guiding you to the best means of publication for your purposes, Allan Douglas uses 30 years of experience as a freelance writer to explain step by step how to deal with all the technical concerns of getting your work out there. Whether you need to know how to create your own blog, how to format and upload a book or article to one of the many prominent web publication services, or simply how to contact a prominent editor/agent at one of those fancy publishing houses or newspapers, this book will keep you from looking like a novice and making non-common sense mistakes that could otherwise cost you credibility and success.
Besides all that, the book is extremely enjoyable to read. Allan has a very professional and cordial tone that pervades his work. The book itself, which is extremely concise, can be read in just a few sittings. Utilizing graphs and screen shots, you will gain a very complete technical understanding of the process of writing a book in Microsoft Word or creating your own blog. If it’s in his table of contents, you can do it!
Perhaps most importantly, this book will explain how to bring awareness to your work by snowflaking, or leaving smaller posts on various forums that point others to your main work. Allan clearly demonstrates how this should be done so that you don’t develop a reputation as a “spam slinging alien lifeform,” but instead become actively engaged in the publication communities that are pertinent to your own, thereby being accepted into them and not marked as someone out for personal gain.
Allan’s opinion about becoming rich overnight is very clear. His attitude toward everything, in his own words, is this: “I will not try to tell you how to do what I am not doing myself.” This is a book for serious people with serious intentions. That being said, his book has convinced me that with some years of involvement in the publication community, your work can gain real worth! Ultimately, Writing for Profit or Pleasure: Where to Publish Your Work will enable you to enter the complex realm of publication respectably, growing your name as a writer and establishing yourself in the industry. So kick back, pop open a bottle of root-beer, and begin your journey as a published author with Allan Douglas’ Writing for Profit or Pleasure: Where to Publish Your Work.
5 July 2011
Chris Stanfill
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By Justin –
This review is from: Writing for Profit or Pleasure: Where to Publish Your Work (Kindle Edition)
I’m very happy with this book.
Honest information without the get rich hype.
Useful up to date information.
I have spent a lot more money and received a lot less information from other books.
If your an aspiring writer, hit the buy button and save yourself a lot of frustration.
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