I hope that you will find the information helpful, useful and profitable.
More people are writing now than at any time in the history of civilisation. This is mainly down to education and more free time. The generation of the parents of the Baby Boomers was the first generation of mass readers – certainly in the West, and probably globally. Their parents could read, usually, but had no tradition of reading books. Instead, they read mostly newspapers. Their children had a better education, and picked up the reading habit from their parents. They were also encouraged to read books at school. The first generation where this happened.
Their children, the post World War II Baby Boomers, continued the progression and became avid readers. In those days, not so long ago, say, between seventy and thirty years ago, people wrote letters by hand. It was a long, but very pleasant, personal experience. Then the home computer, email, and the Internet began to spread among the masses, and pen and ink gradually became replaced with message boards, posting to forums and email.
Before this point, writing had been a special event for most people... thank you letters, postcards, birthday cards, and the odd personal letter home or to a friend. The home computer made it easy to dash off a quick note to someone. It took far less time to write and deliver, or have delivered by the post office. Suddenly, everyone began writing and posting to family, friends, strangers and even enemies. A barrier had been lifted – barriers of time and formality, perhaps.
A high percentage of those Boomers, compared with other generations, have gone on to write some kind of book, or ebook. So, the Boomers are the first generation of working-class writers, and their parents were the first working-class generation of readers.
The generations after the Boomers have never lived without the Internet, and use it even more confidently than the Boomers used a pen.
This is why there have never been so many writers, or typists, in the history of mankind. Writing skills are more important now than ever before because of the proliferation or writers and, therefore, readers. Now is not the time to slack, to lower standards. In fact, quite the opposite. Hence this booklet.
The information in this ebook on various forms of writing is organised into 19 chapters of about 500-600 words each.
This ebook will interest those who would like to develop their writing skills.
As an added bonus, I am granting you permission to use the content on your own website or in your own blogs and newsletter, although it is better if you rewrite them in your own words first.
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How to Build Your Author Platform
If you don't know it already, marketing and actually selling your book is that hardest pat of all, because this is where you face the competition. It should not be contentious competition, because most authors are only too happy to help other authors and there are hundreds of web sites and groups that attest to that, but still, when all is said and done, it is done to you and no-one else to sell your books, if you do not have a traditional publisher or agent.
There are many tools you can use but ultimately they are all bolt-on's to your author platform. Your author platform should be the base from where you foray out on publicising missions and to where people come to find out more about you and your work. it's a bit like an oil rig in the swirling sea of the Internet with all your publicity tools hanging off it.
The first thing to note is that you cannot start building your platform early enough. As soon as you decide to write a book is not too soon, neither is before the thought even enters your head, because you can always use it for publicising some other venture, for writing and selling a book is just a business and the principles are the same.
You get something that is of saleable quality, gain a reputation, find people who like and want that sort of thing and sell it to them. Your author platform will help you build that reputation and shine like a beacon, a landing light on your helipad, if you like, for those who want to find you or someone like you.
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