If you want to write and sell a book manuscript, here's how.

John Kremer's Recommended Resources for Writing & Selling Manuscripts

Here are resources to help you do almost anything you would want to do to market your books as an author or publisher. These resources are provided by me, by other good companies and individuals, or by websites.

Most of these resources pay me an affiliate payment if you sign up for their services by clicking on the links below. I would recommend them anyway, but it is nice to get a little bonus.

Just click on the titles below to find out more about each program I describe.

General Book Marketing / Publicity and PR
Internet Marketing / Creating Books & Products

How to Write a Book, eBook, or
Other Information Product

Blog to Book Project: How to Use a Blog to Create a Book in 90 Days or Less — This self-paced self-study program was created by The Blog Squad to help you get a book written fast and start marketing it as you write it. Provides all the ins and outs about blogging, including key tips to publishing an effective blog. Also includes promotion of your blog to The Blog Squad network. Cost: $297. You can, of course, also sign up for their ProBlogger program that includes their help in setting up a blog and making it work. That costs a lot more, but if you need hand holding to get it done, they can help.

Create and Publish Your Book Now — Discover how to create, write, produce, publish and promote your own book to bestseller status in 90 days or less with this program from Elsom Eldridge and Mark Hendricks. Cost: $197 if you click on the link or image above (that saves you $100).

Info Products Seminar — If you've been slow on creating new products, let Fred Gleeck, the product guru, show how you to create multiple products to sell via a funnel system to anyone — not only how to create such products, but also how to market and deliver them. Fred is one smart fellow.

InstantTeleseminar.com — This service allows you to create and host unlimited teleseminars (limited only by your time!). As many as 300 people can listen in via the phone while another 2,000 can listen in via the web. Anytime, day or night. Whenever you set up a teleseminar. You can also host and record interviews with anyone using this service. All recordings are hosted indefinitely with the service or can be downloaded so you can sell them as mp3s or audio CDs. All this for only $47 per month. I really don't know how they do it for that low price, but I'm not complaining.

Master Quiz — Something like the Master Survey program listed below, but this allows you to do some interactive and puzzle quizzes that you cannot do with Master Survey. Includes everything that Master Survey as plus the interactive features. You can create new quizzes in just a few minutes and put it up on your website right away. Get feedback in hours or days on what works and what doesn't. Learn from your potential customers what they want to see in your book. You can even use quizzes to help write your book by creating content, asking for stories, and getting feedback. Cost: $99.

Master Survey — Find out what your customers want by asking them. Then create the products they want to buy. When you ask your website visitors what they want, you open the door to more sales, happier customers, and a stronger site. You can now interact with your customers via surveys. You can customize the questions you ask, the look and feel of your survey, and how the results are reported (direct to you only or to anyone who visits your website). This is really cool stuff. All for only a one-time fee of $39.

Using Teleseminars to Create and Market Books — This teleseminar by John Kremer shows you how to use teleseminars to create new content, write new books, build important relationships, promote your books, and sell more books. In this seminar, I revealed a secret tip on how to begin creating relationships with top media and book buyers, even months or years before your book comes out. This one tip could boost your book marketing program to levels few authors or publishers have ever enjoyed. Mp3 audio download, $47.00.

Write a Book in 14 Days — Have you ever wanted to write a book, fiction or non-fiction, but you just couldn’t get started, or didn’t have the time, or couldn’t think of a plot, or didn’t think you had anything important to say, or didn’t think you had the writing talent? Here is a program by Steve Manning that is designed to help you write your book in as little as 14 days. There’s even a free email course that gets you started fast.

Write and Grow Rich — In this new manual, Bob Bly describes how to make as much as $100,000 per year as a freelance writer working from the comfort of your home. He shares dozens of his best strategies for starting and running a freelance writing business. Cost: $29.

Write Any Book in Just 28 Days or Less — This course by Nick Daws teaches you how to create a book in 28 days or less, working less than one hour per day. That means fast. Novelists alert: This course is designed to help both the fiction author and the nonfiction author. Cost: $49.95.

Write Your eBook Or Other Short Book Fast — This ebook by Judy Cullins shows you how to write a book fast with minimal effort. Cost: $24.95.

Writer's Block: Stuck for words? Just sleep with your headphones. Enjoy unlimited creativity, with the new binaural beats CD from Bradley Thompson, designed exclusively for writers. Be one of the first to try it. Just $39.95.

How to Sell Your Manuscript
and Other Subsidiary Rights

Book Proposals That Sell: 21 Secrets to Speed Your Success — This book by W. Terry Whalin provides everything you need to write a selling book proposal and get a publisher for your manuscript. Combined with the literary agent report directly below, you have everything you need to sell the next great American novel or any good nonfiction book. $39.

Everything You Need to Know to Become a Best-Selling Author — This 10-CD and guidebook program by Scott Jeffrey and Dr. X feature interviews with an anonymous publishing giant on how to craft a winning book proposal, land a publishing contract, navigate the publishing process, get publicity, market your book, and create a results-oriented author website. Cost: $195.

Literary, Subsidiary, & Foreign Rights Agents — If you want to contact the best literary agents for your novel or nonfiction book, this listing of more than 1,375 literary agents will allow you to target just the right agent for your book. This report also includes 375 agents that sell foreign rights and another 50 or so that handle subsidiary rights sales. Also includes a sample foreign rights contract. Only $30.

Millionaire Licensing Club — Copywriting legend Bob Serling and Internet marketer Mike Long teach you their TollGate method for selling products even when you don't have a website. Background: Create licensing deals with people who have product and connect them with people who have lists, members, website visitors, etc. Now, as an author, you might not want to broker other people's deals, but you certainly would want to know how to go about getting other people involved in selling your book, courses, etc. This course teaches you how to do that.

Proposal Secrets — This e-course by W. Terry Whalin is the MBA program for book authors looking to get a great book contract from a traditional publisher. Among other things, he answers the 50 most important questions authors have about writing book proposals, finding literary agents, and signing with a book publisher. The title isn't sexy enough to give you a true idea of how much Terry covers in this e-course. Someday I hope he comes up with a better title, or at least a good subtitle. Cost: $225.

Secrets of Proposals Teleseminar — This teleseminar features W. Terry Whalin and eight top editors and agents telling you all the secrets of why book proposals fail or succeed. When Terry first planned this teleseminar, he was really excited about talking to these important decision-makers. After completing the teleseminar, he was even more excited (if that was possible), because the quality of the teleseminar exceeded his (and my) expectations. Normally $99, Terry has allowed me to extend you a huge discount of $79 so the final cost is only $20.

How to Get Testimonials
and Work with Celebrities

Audio Acrobat — You can use this wonderful service to generate podcasts, Internet radio shows, have fans call in to record an audio testimonial, and create other audio content by just making a phone call, recording your talk, and hitting send to syndicate your audio podcast to 27 podcast directories like iTunes. You can also create and send audio or video emails, post audio or video to your website with neat players, and so much more, all for only $19.95 a month. That's an incredible bargain. Sign up for the 30-day free trial today!

Celebrity Book Endorsements Toolkit — This bonus-packed toolkit from Jordan McAuley provides you with all the information you need, step-by-step, to get celebrity endorsements or blurbs for your book, idea, service, cause, or other product. Includes a free 60-day membership in the Contact Any Celebrity database (see below). Cost: $97. Includes two bonus reports from John Kremer on getting testimonials.

Celebrity Causes Database — This online membership database from Jordan McAuley lists which celebrities contribute time and/or money to various causes. If you're looking for a celebrity to give you a testimonial, write a foreword to your book, co-write a book with you, interview for a teleseminar, or join in your marketing campaign, here is the place to look. Find celebrities who are passionately involved with children, animals, various medical conditions, the environment, social issues like Darfur, and more. You can take a 7-day test-drive for only $1.00 or get an entire year's access for only $197.

Contact Any Celebrity — This database from Jordan McAuley allows you to find the best mailing address, manager, publicist, and production company for more than 54,000 celebrities around the world. Includes phone and fax numbers plus email addresses for each celebrity's representative. You can get a monthly subscription to this database so you always have easy access to the important celebrities you want to reach. You can take a 7-day test-drive for only $1.00 or get an entire year's access for only $197.

Spotlight Branding — This is a searchable online database featuring industry contacts for film, television and gaming to be used for product placement and branded entertainment opportunities. Nobody in the book world knows the power of product placement better than Matt Damon’s childhood neighbor. A single mention of his friend’s history book in Good Will Hunting has kept that book a consistent seller since the movie debuted. Cost: $549.

How to Design Your Book
or Other Product

Alive! eBooks Network — Wow, I just discovered this program and it is beautiful and enticing. It allows you to create and sell multimedia ebooks that feature text, audio, and video. They've already featured Dan Millman, Marc Allen, Carolyn Ellis, and others. You provide text, audio recordings, optional photos and other graphics, video (if you have some) and then they do the heavy lifting of creating the multimedia ebook plus the non-glamorous technical stuff for ebook security, hosting, and integration into your shopping cart. Cost: $2500 plus a cover design. Their covers are gorgeous and the books are involving, which means that your customer not only gets to read you but also hear and see you. Check out their samples by clicking above. You'll like what you see and hear.

Become a Professional Cartoonist — World-famous cartoonist Lou Darvas shows you how. Just follow 12 simple steps and get published and paid within three months, guaranteed.

Turn Your Book Cover into a Large Poster or Art Canvas — It's simple to do. Check out the above website to find out how you can create very a large poster or art canvas out of your book cover. This is a really neat service. You can use the large posters or art canvases as backdrops to your exhibits, book signings, speeches, and other events. Or simply to showcase your book in your own living room as an objet d'art.

The Ultimate Book Cover Makeover Clinic — Before creating a bestseller, you have to do two things: 1) Write a good book, and 2) Design a pick-up-able book, with a great title, back cover sales copy, and pull-the-customer-in cover design. The Cover That Book double-CD learning system by Susan Kendrick features complete, start-to-finish writing and design steps, strategies, and tips to turn your expertise into award-winning, income-producing books and info products. Also includes a 30-minute phone consultation, members-only telecoaching, and The Ultimate Book Cover Makeover teleclinic. Cost: $197.

How to Build a Speaking Career

Become an Instant Guru — In this 6-audio CD program, Bob Bly shares proven, pragmatic methods you can use to quickly and easily become the recognized authority in your field in as little as 90 days. You can master the art of being a guru in about a week of listening in your car. Cost: $97. Includes two free $29 reports: How to Write a Book and Get It Published and How to Do Your Own Public Relations.

College Speaking Success Boot Camp — If you want to speak at colleges, James Malinchak is the man to talk to. His boot camp will teach you everything you need to know to become a paid speaker on college campuses around the country (and earn from $100,000 to $1 million per year doing so). College campuses are a great place to promote many kinds of books. For a free report on 10 Deadly Speaker Marketing Mistakes, click on the title. Note: His next boot camp is May 1 to 4, 2008, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

New Video Pro — If you can take a picture, then you have what it takes to stream video off of your website or blog in under 57 seconds. Add sticky and selling videos to your website without losing visitors to YouTube or another video-sharing service. Plus, you don't have to convert your video to Flash before posting it to your site; the service does it for you, quick and easy. Cost: $49.95, but take advantage of the $1 30-day trial (that's almost free!).

Speak on Cruise Ships: 8 Easy Steps to a Lifetime of Free Luxury Cruises — If you would like to travel to exotic destinations at no cost (with your spouse!) and sell some books at the same time, you should check out this information program by Daniel Hall. He provides the inside scoop on how to contact cruise ship lines, which lines are interested in what topics, and how to book speaking engagements for any trip you want to make via cruise ship. We're talking Love Boat experiences galore :)) Cost: Just $97. Neat.

General Book Marketing / Publicity and PR
Internet Marketing / Creating Books & Products