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Success Stories: First Authors

Business Book Editors / Children's Book Editors / Cookbook Editors
Health Book Editors / New Novel Book Editors / Reference & Humor Book Editors
Religious & Inspirational Book Editors / Sports Book Editors

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To help make the sale of a book project in the works, Curtis Brown agent Elizabeth Sheinkman encouraged the author to put a 5-minute video up on YouTube. Robert Isaacson, author of The Horse Boy, a proposed book telling about his coming trip to Mongolia with his autistic son, was planning on making a video of the trip (with help from some professionals). The YouTube video featured below, along with a good proposal, allowed Sheinkman to sell Isaacson's book for a 7-figure advance in a six-way auction. Judy Clain of Little, Brown bought the book.

Do you have a short video that could enhance your book proposal or news release? If so, get it up on YouTube, MySpace, and other websites where agents, editors, movie producers, and others can view it. Check out the video-sharing websites by clicking here.

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How to Get a Top Literary Agent and Sign That Coveted 6-Figure Deal

Using a Pen Name as a Novelist

Literary, Subsidiary, & Foreign Rights Agents — This Word report includes more than 1,375 literary agents, including 375 agents that sell foreign rights and another 50 or so that handle subsidiary rights sales. This report also includes a sample foreign rights contract. $30.00.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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