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Resources for press and media professionals This is where authors find the tools they need to efficiently plan, write, promote, and profit from nonfiction books.
Mission
Published & Profitable offers articles, assessments, checklists, interviews, templates, worksheets, and videos, to help authors make significant progress as quickly as possible.
Background Published & Profitable reflects Roger C. Parker's desire to share the lessons he's learned writing 38 books that have sold over 1.6 million copies throughout the world. It also include lessons learned interviewing hundreds of successful authors. Roger's books include: Details
- Looking Good in Print: A Guide to Basic Design for Desktop Publishing launched hundreds of thousands of design careers.
- Microsoft Office for Windows for Dummies which introduced Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, to a new generation of office workers.
- The Streetwise Guide to Relationship Marketing on the Internet. How to apply the principles of permission-based marketing, with Foreword by Seth Godin.
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- Design to Sell: How to Plan, Write, and Create Great Marketing, Microsoft Press.
Story ideas
- How Recent Trends in Book Publishing Effect Authors.
- Getting Started on Writing Your Book
- How to Choose the Best Publishing Alternative
- Myths and Realities of Getting Published
- How to Choose Right Title for Your Book
Questions
- What's the right way to choose a title for a book?
- What advice do you have for first-time authors?
- What are the most common mistakes of first-time authors?
- What are the questions that authors should ask publishers?
- How should authors go about selecting an agent to represent them?
- How can authors avoid and cure writer's block?
- What do publishers want to see in a book proposal/
- What do publishers want to know about authors?
- How can authors decide whether or not to self-publish their book?
Resources Write Your Way to Success: A Step-by-step Guide to Getting Published. 16-page guide describes the steps authors should take before, and after, they write their book. See blue panel at upper right, or contact Roger C. Parker.
Media In addition to over 300 speeches, presentations, and workshops, Roger C. Parker has traveled throughout the United States on press tours representing Microsoft Corporation and Software Publishing Corporation.
Other Roger C. Parker websites
- Membership Site Planner. Resources to help membership site owners make the right content and design decisions.
- Design to Sell Online. Based on his latest book for Microsoft Press, with tips for planning, writing, and creating great marketing with Microsoft Publisher.
- Upcoming Events blog. Several years of weekly events and interviews.
- New Entrepreneur. The companion site for Roger's Streetwise Guide for Relationship Marketing on the Internet.
Contact
- Roger C. Parker
- 603-742-9673
- Roger@publishedandprofitable.com
Press Releases and articles
| Monday, Mar 10, 2008 03:41 |
| PRESS RELEASE: Audios + Maps shows authors the structure behind successful nonfiction books |
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| The fast, easy way for new authors to learn how successful nonfiction books are organized
For immediate release March 10, 2008
Roger C. Parker's Published & Profitable, www.publishedandprofitable.com, announces AUDIOS + MAPS, a new feature that helps nonfiction authors understand the organization and structure of successful nonfiction books.
Each AUDIOS + MAPS feature addresses a nonfiction title that has important lessons to teach about title positioning and book structure. Each feature includes:
- Audio perspective by Roger C. Parker discussing important the book's positioning and the organization of its content.
- Downloadable mind map, intended to be used with Mindjet's MindManager software, to take notes as they listen to the audio.
- Printable PDF mind map displaying the book's chapters, along with approximate page counts.
Together, the combination of audios and maps provide authors with a unique perspective into each book's organization. Those who have not yet purchased MindManager can download a 21-day free trial of the software at http://www.mindjet.com/us/download.
According to 32-Million dollar author Roger C. Parker, mind maps make it easy to reveal the structure of successful books. "Mind maps reveal at a glance how successful nonfiction authors organize their books before they begin writing. These maps emphasize that planning and organization are the keys to successful books."
The first AUDIOS + MAPS titles include Seth Godin's Meatball Sundae, Yannik Silver's Moonlighting on the Internet, and Dan Pink's A Whole New Mind.
Published & Profitable's Sample Contents includes an example, based on Chip Heath and Dan Heath's best-selling Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die.
Roger C. Parker's Published & Profitable offers members hundreds of articles, examples, and tools (like assessments and templates) for planning, writing, promoting, and profiting from nonfiction books. Published & Profitable's resource include a Daily Writing Tips Blog Daily Writer's Tips Blog of tips for those who want to learn more about writing nonfiction books. |
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| Saturday, Sep 08, 2007 03:40 |
| PRESS RELEASE: Webinar to show authors how to save time writing their books |
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| How mind mapping helps authors plan, write, promote, and profit from their books
For release: September 8, 2007
Published books are the best way for coaches, clients, and others with specialized expertise, to attract new business by promoting their credibility and visibility. But, many view writing a book as a near-impossible dream.
During a free webinar on October 2, 2008, however, Roger C. Parker will describe a process that breaks the four essential tasks of a successful book--planning, writing, promoting, and profiting--into a series of easily-accomplished steps.
The webinar, sponsored by the Mindjet corporation, will show how to use MindManager 7.0 Pro to choose the right title, write without stress, and effectively promote your book, and leverage your book into new profit opportunities.
Visit Mindjet corporation for details. |
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| Monday, Jul 30, 2007 03:42 |
| PRESS RELEASE: New report helps authors, coaches, and consultants get profitably published |
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| New report helps authors, coaches, and consultants get profitably published
For release: July 30, 2007 Authors, coaches, and consultants looking for ways to attract new business by writing a book to promote their visibility and enhance their credibility can download Write Your Way to Success, a free 16-page report by Roger C. Parker, best-selling non-fiction author.
Write Your Way to Success describes the major tasks that authors should focus on, and in what order. It also contains numerous print and online resources for planning, writing, promoting, and profiting from a published book.
"I wrote Write Your Way to Success to help new authors avoid some of the mistakes that I see new authors make every day," according to Parker. "When I started out, I made just about every mistake there is to be made. Write Your Way to Success can help other authors my costly and time-consuming mistakes."
Roger C. Parker is often referred to as the "32 million dollar author." Over 1.6 million readers around the world own copies of his books, that include the NY Times recommended Looking Good in Print, the original Microsoft Office for Windows for Dummies, and Design to Sell.
Contact: Roger C. Parker 603-742-9673 Rogercparker@aol.com |
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