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How to Write, Publish, & Sell the Hell out of a Book—with Waylon H. Lewis.
Welcome to Waylon’s How-to-Write-Print-Publish-Sell-a-Book Course.
A message from Waylon, before you dive in. (6:34)
Community Discussion.
The Craft.
Why Should you Write a Book? (2:38)
How to Write a Book: An Overview. (8:05)
Tools for Writing. (5:50)
Meditation versus Writer's Block: How-to. (15:37)
What to Write about when you don't know what to Write about. (4:30)
The Writing.
Don’t write the book you think you want to write.
Genuine Connection & Emotionalism: finding the Middle Way. (3:29)
How to Write a Story: Arc & Accessibility. (4:35)
How not to Bore your Readers. Plus, 10 Basic Tips. (4:45)
Advice from Award-winning Author Ada Calhoun. (5:19)
Ada Calhoun: How do you know when you've Found your Voice? (2:32)
Failure & Getting Lost.
The Ideal Writer's Life. (9:51)
Using Serialization to (re)Discover your Voice. (4:18)
Serialization is Everything. (5:37)
The Editing Process (Hell for Creatives; Heaven for OCD-ers).
Finding your Editor.
How I edited my best-selling Book—what worked. (7:27)
Under that rock? Where to look for Editors.
Finding your Voice through Editing. (1:35)
How to Write so you don't have to Edit.* *Much. (4:12)
Getting (Yourself) Published.
The Politics of Being a Writer. (7:13)
Traditional Publishing.
Ada Calhoun: How to pitch to a Magazine & Start Serializing. (5:11)
Ada Calhoun: How to Pitch a Book. (1:42)
Which comes first, the Book or the Audience? (1:02)
Selling a Book is like Dating... (2:44)
Self-Publishing (Indie Publishing).
Don't call it "Self-Publishing." (3:50)
The Perils of "Self-Publishing" with Amazon. (2:03)
How to Print the most Eco Book possible, with Jonny Black. (39:43)
Your Book's Legacy is your Responsibility. (3:38)
Selling the Hell out of your Book.
How to Sell the Hell out of your Book. (7:54)
To Give Books Away or Not to Give Books Away? (3:02)
Crowdfunding 101. (5:00)
Elephant Academy's Guide to Kickstarter.
Eeks! Yay! Your first book reading. (4:18)
If you're Uncomfortable Shamelessly Self-promoting Your Sweet Self. (7:27)
Resources.
Buying a New Book is one of the Worst Things we can do to our Environment. (5:07)
Cheap Words. {via The New Yorker}
How to Write: two lists via Jack Kerouac.
The Bookiness of This Book. {How to Add Eco-friendly End Matter to your Book.}
An Epic Guide to Self-Publishing. {via our friend at Well-Storied}
Lindsey walks Waylon through the painful process of writing, editing, & selling his Book.
Elephant Academy's Book Publishing Checklist.
Conclusion.
Have 5 minutes? We'd love your thoughts.
Addendum: It just keeps getting Better.
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How to write a book: Don’t. ~ Waylon Lewis
“Save on therapy bills—become a writer.” ~ Waylon Lewis (6:30)
Members only: How to Market, Publish, & Sell the Hell out of your Book. (119:44)
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