Why Books Are So Important

This lesson gives a brief introduction to Marnie’s Collaborative Creation and Story Method.

In this lesson Marnie shares 4 things that will infuse the WOW-Factor into your book.

We’ve talked about 4 elements to the WOW-Factor. This is the final secret sauce to the WOW-Factor.

In this lesson Marnie shares her 5-step process for structuring your book. Once you have a structure, writing becomes simpler.

The first strategy you need to create a grabbing introduction to your compelling book.

This lesson discusses strategies 2, 3 and 4 for creating a compelling book. All of these deal with crafting an introduction that grabs people and pulls them in.

These two strategies will make your book easier to share with others.

Strategies 7-10 will help you create your compelling book using bullets, acronyms, takeaways and incentives to keep on reading.

This lesson goes over 7 methods for organizing your book. Choose one or a combination of them to implement in your book.

Stories are one of the best way to bring everything together in your book. This lesson explores when and how to use stories and what to put around your stories to structure a powerful non-fiction book.

I share a personal story that will be the basis for dissecting the Hero’s Journey in this section of the material. Not only is this story an example of the power story has to motivate your readers, but also it is hopefully going to motivate you to write your book!

By working with your creative cycle, you get into a creative flow where writing comes more easily. This lessons teaches you how to determine your creative cycle and how to shift your beliefs to be in alignment with success.

In this lesson I share importance of story and how you can use it in your book whether you’re writing fiction or non-fiction. The power of story is the jet fuel I use to get books written fast. I share a few ideas for how I’ve used stories in various types of books.

It’s important also to know how to structure your stories so they grab and engage people. This lesson explores the anatomy of a good story and how to structure all your stories – whether they be for novels, non-fiction books, or for presentations and explaining to people who you are and what you do.

Your assignment for applying the Hero’s Journey to stories you’ll be sharing in your book – whether it’s the overarching story of a novel or stories you’ll include to illustrate your points in non-fiction.

This lesson explains ISBN’s and how to get one for your book.

This lesson explains Library of Congress Preassigned Control Numbers and how to get one for your book in order to get your book in libraries.

This lesson explains how authors make revenues from Kindle sales, Kindle Prime and Kindle Unlimited. It also gives an overview of Kindle Select and how that works and the stipulations associated with it.

Whether you’re about to launch your book for the first time or are re-launching your book, here are some ideas for marketing your book online and off and prepping for your launch.

Press releases – especially local ones — are a great way to get exposure for your book and generate sales. This lesson takes you through the anatomy of a good press release.

This lesson offers suggestions on graphics materials to compile for promoting your book and also what to include on your author web site.

Get more exposure for your books on Amazon. This lesson shows you how to set up your Amazon Author Central profile account.

GoodReads.com is the most popular social media platform for people who want to read, review and discuss books. This lesson gives a brief overview of Goodreads and how to get started using it effectively.

This lesson goes through setting up your Goodreads Author Profile in detail.

Speaking about your book is a great way to promote it and sell more books.

Marnie’s personal list of editors, book designers and other people and resources to help with your book publishing and marketing.

Facebook groups are a great way to create and gather content and form a tribe who is excited about supporting you and your book.

3-month step-by-step plan for increasing the visibility of your book

Much of success with writing, publishing and marketing your book is all in your mindset and your beliefs about yourself and about the writing process. This is a mindshifting / belief-shifting session designed to align you with the success you seek as an author.

One of the biggest blocks that authors face is hang-ups about money – whether they’ll be able to make money from their books, whether it’s worth investing the time in writing when you  may never make a living from it and a host of other money-issues. This is a belief-shifting audio designed to help you align your money beliefs with success.