Nina Amir - The Author Training Manual: Develop Marketable Ideas, Craft Books That Sell, Become the Author Publishers Want, and Self-Publish Effectively

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To every aspiring and published author who wants to turn a vision of writing and publishing successful books into a reality.

The Author Training Manual is a must-read for writers who aspire to publish and for published authors who want to publish more successfully. Successful publishing requires more than great writing. It requires a mindset backed by smart strategy and execution. Nina Amirs The Author Training Manual delivers the secrets to successful authorship.

Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords

Nina Amirs ideas on Author Attitudes are exactly what all authors need to know and what authors who yearn for greater success need to hear.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally series

The Author Training Manual lifts the fog of confusion around getting published and illuminates the need for every nonfiction and fiction writer to create a plan, keep on track, navigate all publishing options, tackle promotion, open possibilities for sales and, plain and simple, succeed as an author. This is the book Ive been waiting for to recommend to all editing clients and writers.

Elizabeth Lyon, author of Nonfiction Book Proposals Anybody Can Write

Whether you are getting ready to break inor almost ready to break outthis book is your essential manual for becoming the market-ready partner publishers seek. I am one of the agents who met this author when she herself was in author training; now were all clamoring to be included in her books!

Katharine Sands, literary agent and author of Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agents Eye

Nina Amirs The Author Training Manual will be of help to any writer, fiction or nonfiction. Its easy to follow and inspiring.

Elizabeth Pomada, literary agent, Larsen/Pomada Literary Agents

One of the most important things authors can do for themselves is to prepare to become published and to succeed in this role, which takes more than just writing a good book. It takes a solid plan. If you want the tools to succeed no matter what or how you plan to publish, this is the book you want to read.

Penny C. Sansevieri, CEO of Author Marketing Experts, Inc., adjunct professor NYU, and author of Red Hot Internet Publicity

Nina Amirs The Author Training Manual will save fiction and nonfiction writers decades of fumbling their way to publication. Her book is a sharp, supportive guide to give any writer all the tools to become a confident, savvy author in an ever-changing publishing landscape.

Jordan E. Roseneld, author of Make a Scene, Write Free, and Forged in Grace

Nina Amirs The Author Training Manual is more than, well, a manual: Beyond telling you the ins and outs of writing and publishing a book, it helps you hone your Author Attitude to ensure success on all levels. Any serious author needs to have this book on her shelf.

Linda Formichelli, author of Write Your Way Out of the Rat Race And Step Into a Career You Love

Finally a book that offers indie publishers a tool for becoming savvy business people. Fiction and nonfiction authors alike will benefit from The Author Training Manual, which shows them how to create a business plan for a book that can succeed in the marketplace. A good idea is great; a marketable one is better.

Jim Kukral, author of Attention! This Book Will Make You Money and founder of The Author Marketing Club

From descriptive step-by-step instructions on how to write a book that will sell for almost any genre to the specifics of whats in a book proposal and why you need one even if you choose to self-publish, this book chunks down the writing process and the publishing industry into actionable steps any author will have no problem taking. So many authors jump into self-publishing not realizing all that goes into running a publishing company and marketing a book that sells. By following Ninas advice, authors will be well on their way to success and leaving their self-published competition in the dust. And I guarantee youll never see the word, WOOT! quite the same way!

Kristen Eckstein, publishing consultant and author of more than 35 books, including the Authors Quick Guide series

In The Author Training Manual, Nina Amir distills the essence of what it means to be a successful author and delivers it with intelligence, grace, and tough love. Every author would do well to have a copy.

Peter Beren, literary agent and co-author of The Writers Legal Companion

If you are serious about getting published, you will stand out from your competition by using all of the resources at your disposal to set yourself apart in the most positive way. Nina Amirs approach taps into your natural creativity and applies it to the important business considerations that will help get your book in the marketplace.

Sheree Bykofsky, Literary Agent and co-author of The Complete Idiots Guide to Getting Published, 5th Edition

Nina Amir is on the leading edge of book publishing, and in The Author Training Manual she provides authors with the toolsand even more important, the thinking behind themthat every author will need to be successful today. This up-to-date manual should be in every authors toolbox. Highly recommended.

Joel Friedlander, author of A Self-Publishers Companion

by James Scott Bell

Back there in the bad old days, when I was told you cant learn how to write (and I believed it), there wasnt much out there to guide the young writer on his perilous way. I was in college, you see, and they knew everything. And one of the things they made clear to me was that books on the craft of writing were a waste of paper. A scam. A way to separate rubes from their money. You cannot learn this stuff, they said. You either have it or you dont.

I wasted a lot of years believing that balderdash.

Then one day I knew I had to try, had to see if I could learn to write. Even if it turned out I was only pounding my head on the wall of stark failure, I wasnt going to go down without a fight.

Thus began my journey through what mythic structure mavens would call the dark world. I needed light, so I subscribed to Writers Digest and devoured many a WD book. And slowlythrough trial, error, and my weekly quota of wordsI made it through the woods and into a career.

I dont begrudge those years, nor the struggle. Still, I wish Id had a Mentor, somebody who knew the path, the ins and outs, the obstacles to come, someone who could take me by my unsteady hand and say, Okay, first you ought to do this. Got it? Now you need to do this.

You know what really would have been nice? Nina Amirs The Author Training Manual.

What I like about Ninas approach is that it is both practical and prioritized. It starts with the most important aspect, one that anxious new writers usually skip: mental preparation. Do you have what Nina calls Author Attitude? Do you really know what it takes to succeed in this game? Are you willing to practice, to pay the price? Miss this, and you might just be spinning your wheelsor should I say, clacking your keys? Nina would rather see your wheels get traction and your keys make words that will have a chance to connect.