7 Days To Easy-Money: Get Paid To Write A Book

Essential blurb add-on: the testimonial

Publishers love cover testimonials, because they know that they sell books. How

many times have you bought a book because someone you'd heard of and respected

recommended the book to you? If you know anyone famous, or can get in touch with

them, now's the time to contact them to ask them whether they'd be willing to read

your book and provide a quote for you to use on the cover.

Outlining your book

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Start with a mind map

This is where your blurb comes into its own. You can develop a basic outline from

your blurb as a mind map, or cluster diagram. For each book I've written, I've used

mind maps. Because a book is long, it's hard to keep the whole thing straight in your

mind --- mind maps help you to do this.

Here's a sample mind map for Making The Internet Work For Your Business:

Planning

DIY, or hire it done?

Web site

Online Basics

Contacts

Mind map/

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5 / 05 / 2003 - v 5

Selling online

Why^ business^ online?^ Marketing^
Diagramming your initial ideas of what you'd like the book to contain gives
you an overview, from which you can develop a more detailed outline. Go through all
the material you've gathered so far, and insert headings into your mind map.
Remember that at this stage, nothing is set in stone. Just work as quickly as
you can, don’t think too much about it. You just want to get an idea of how much
material you have.

Create your outline

Working from your mind map, create a chapter outline of your book. The easiest way

to do this is just to write numbers from one to ten or one to 15 down the page, and