eBooks: Idea to Amazon in 14 Days Virtual Book Tour February 2010
Authors on Tour, Featured — By Dorothy Thompson on February 3, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Join Marnie Swedberg, author of the nonfiction book for writers, eBooks: Idea to Amazon in 14 Days (Gifts of Encouragement) , as she virtually tours the blogosphere in February 2010 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!
About Marnie Swedberg
Marnie Swedberg is the host of the Leadership Development Club, serving thousands of thought-leaders from every continent and career path. Recently she did an experiment while researching the changes in eBook publishing. During a two week period she wrote and published a new resource entitled, eBooks: Idea to Amazon in 14 days. Her book tells how any unpublished author, even YOU, can now become a published author in as little as 2 weeks. You can visit her website at www.marnie.com.
eBooks: Idea to Amazon in 14 Days by Marnie Swedberg (click on cover to purchase)
About eBooks: Idea to Amazon in 14 Days
Even the busiest people can find time to get their books published. Marnie models how, one day at a time, as she continues to manage her restaurant, work at the family retail store, host several large websites, host her radio talk show and move this project from conception to release… all in just 14 days.
The book models for you her precise steps and mental positioning as she put together a team of outsourcers and freelancers, did the research, wrote the content, found and added expert quotes and statistics, edited and hired editors, and then published this book, from idea to Amazon in 14 days.
In the guide, you will learn:
1. Why eBooks are a good publication option for business, non-profit, fiction and non-fiction writers and why unpublished authors should act now.
2. Why you should write your book with two key audiences in mind.
3. How the use of templates can save you time and money.
4. Keys to topic, title and chapter heading research.
5. How to write and format your book for eBook publication.
6. Tips to keep you legal—a plagiarism overview.
7. Why and how 2.0 can kill your book in a day, and how to prevent it.
8. Where to find freelance- and outsource-researchers, writing coaches, editors, graphic artists and formatters who can help get your book publication-ready.
Read the Excerpt
In these pages, I model a journey. I show you what it looked like for me to go from concept to Amazon in just 14 days.
While it may take you twice, or ten times, as long as it took me, you need to know that getting published this month or this year is a reasonable goal. You can do it!
Although my first book was published with a big New York publisher, I have been content to self-publish nearly a dozen eBooks, happily selling these how-to guides as downloads from my own websites.
Before January 5, 2010, I had never seriously contemplated publishing my eBooks at Amazon.com or anywhere else, and the thought of writing an eBook on the topic, “How to Write eBooks,” was the farthest thing from my mind.
But then the phone rang.
Day 1. Tuesday, Jan 5, 2010. 1:05 PM
I don’t recognize the number on caller ID, but I know the voice as soon as I hear it: Barbara Jauquet-Kalinoski, Director of the Northwest Regional Library System, former Oprah guest and long-time personal friend.
Barb invites me to do a 3-day, 7-location pinch hit training program because their original guest cancelled after the promo was published and patron anticipation was already building.
As a pinch hit speaker, I am immediately excited by the ever-so-familiar topic. There is no thought of writing an eBook: I am simply expected to show up and train people on what I know.
I begin preparing immediately.
Within a day, the research results peak my curiosity: much of the information is new to me and the assignment begins to take on the look and feel of a much larger project. In addition to the large pool of unfamiliar practices, the keyword research proves invigorating and I begin to feel my eleventh eBook comin’ on.
I toss simplicity to the wind and embark on an insane quest to learn everything I can about the recent changes and opportunities available through eBook publishing, and to share what I uncover with the largest audience possible.
I think, “If I can write and publish an entire eBook before my first presentation, the speech notes will be a piece of cake.”
It’s a huge challenge: I have less than 14 days to research, write and edit an entire book, a project that usually takes months or years to complete.
Day 12. Saturday, January 16, 2010. 12:40 PM
I am adding the finishing touches to a single-spaced, 103-page manuscript. Not bad! We are on our final edits, and the only thing left is Kindle™ formatting. Monday morning we publish to the Amazon Kindle™ Store as an eBook.
My only regret is that we could not grind this through five or ten more rounds of editing. Each time I read a paragraph, I tweak something… and each tweak wreaks havoc with the surrounding content.
Such is the nature of personal publication on a tight deadline. Every business person understands this dilemma.
Day 28. Monday, February 01, 2010. 4:00 PM
The eBook has been in the Amazon Kindle Store for 14 days now and is receiving good reviews. In the elapsing days, two events launched my add=on challenge:
• My final day of lectures was postponed for two weeks due to bad weather and simultaneously,
• I learned that it is possible to take a polished eBook to paperback via Print on Demand (POD) with only a few extra, simple steps.
I went back to work, researching the POD aspect of the process, doing more writing and editing, and am now reading the final paperback manuscript one last time.
Amazing! This project went from difficult to impossible, and back again. Yet, within 48 hours, we will be ready to print some paperbacks. This is truly a remarkable time in history to be an author.
Read what critics have to say!
“I doubt that you will ever read a ‘how-to’ book that takes the reader through a process as clearly as Marnie Swedberg does in her eBooks: Idea to Amazon in 14 Days. Writers looking to get their work published will feel as though they are at Marnie’s side as she takes them through a series of otherwise daunting tasks. This is a fast-read that is destined to help many writers get their work in print and on the market in record time.”
–Donna Best, Bible Teacher and Speaker, Founder of Weatherproof Ministries
“Congratulations! I love your new ebook and have written a 5-star review for you on Amazon…”
–David Sanford, Literary Agent, Credo Communications
“Inspirational! After reading Marnie’s book, I am ready to write! The information is extensive, well organized and includes everything a writer needs to achieve the goal of becoming a published author.”
–Melissa Smallwood, Professional Organizer
eBooks: Idea to Amazon in 14 Days Tour Schedule
Monday, February 22
Interviewed at Blogcritics
Guest blogging at The Writer’s Life
Tuesday, February 23
Guest blogging at Blogging Authors
Interviewed at Dan Janal’s Cool Book of the Day
Wednesday, February 24
Interview l Chat l Book Giveaway at Pump Up Your Book
Thursday, February 25
Book reviewed at Market My Novel
Friday, February 26
Interviewed at Examiner
Guest blogging at Book Marketing Buzz
Marnie Swedberg’s EBOOKS: IDEA TO AMAZON IN 14 DAYS VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR ‘10 will officially begin on February 22 and end on February 26. Please contact Dorothy Thompson at thewriterslife@yahoo.com if you are interested in hosting and/or reviewing his book during her virtual book tour. Thank you!
Update: Marnie’s tour is full. Thank you to all hosts for participating!
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