Posted by on May 16, 2010 in
Writing Books These days more people are flocking to purchase self-help books. Self-help books are leaping off shelves at brick and mortar book stores and online stores. People want to feel that if they read a self-help book, they have the power to change their lives. Whether or not this is true is arguable.
Changing your life, soul searching, and helping thyself, are all great book topics.
As much as ever before, people want to know how to find peace with their pasts, how to be creative or spiritual in a consuming society, and how to find true love. There is no end to how-to books you could create in the category of self-help, or life enrichment. Here are a few more ideas:
* How to marry for life
* How to unbreak your heart
* How to stay sane in a crazy world
* How to meditate
Health is a concern to anyone who is growing old, ill, or faced illness with a loved one or wants more energy or, basically, everybody. Health books are a good investment for you to make. Doctors don’t have to be the authors. Anyone with any credentials, or no crendetials at all, can write books on health. Just make sure you don’t claim to be a doctor if you’re not one.
Use any of these health topics and guarantee yourself immediate interest, readership, and book sales!
1. DISEASE PREVENTION AND CURE. As our baby boomer population ages, health concerns will afflict them, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, dementia, or some other malady. Give these people some hope. Create a book on how to cope, how to find the best practitioners, how to avoid disease triggers, or cures that American doctors are unaware of.
2. NATURAL REMEDIES. People are curious about alternatives to standard medicine, and are anxious to try herbal, natural, or holistic treatments. Create a book on any disease that covers alternative cures. For example, “How to Treat Lymphoma, Naturally.” Or, you could address natural supplements in general, “The best natural remedies for common ailments,” or “Holistic health.”
3. DIET. What we eat is always a hot topic. Dozens, if not hundreds, of diet fads exist. Pick any one of them for a book. Then there’s obesity, general health, and also diet supplements like vitamins. Think “How to equip your kitchen for macrobiotic dieting.” Or, “Eat to cure cancer.”
4. HOW TO SURVIVE ANY PHASE OF LIFE. People face numerous demons and battles as they live their lives. For many, when they’re in need, they reach out to others for help. Support groups, private therapy, being with friends, starting over – these are all solid topics for a book. You could also reach out to certain people needing emotional assistance, such as:
* How to get through the terrible two’s,
* How to cope with a cancer diagnosis,
* Living with your own shortcomings,
* How to live with someone who is dying,
* Surviving high school.
Any of these book topics will do.
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Posted by on May 16, 2010 in
Writing Books The marketability of how-to books is limitless. Everyone wants an instruction manual, advice, and encouragement. Anything you know how to do, anything you’ve ever wanted to learn, or anything that’s teachable at all, can become a how-to book.
How-to books for hobbyists are a good way to go, and this overlaps with the discussion above. A hobby how-to book could be anything from how to build a home from hay bales, to how to play Texas Hold ‘Em, to how to understand Shakespeare.
One book publisher knows how hungry we are for how-to information, and has created a whole series of “Dummies” books around the market. The industry has similar book imprints, and all of them do quite well! “The Everything” series, “Idiot’s Guide” series and others are cashing in on the how-to phenomenon.
You could cash in by creating books on any or all subjects covered in any of those books. Go to Dummies.com, and check out their list of titles. Pick one you like, and move full speed ahead!
Even though the books have “Dummies” in the title, these books are popular because the authors do not treat their readers like dummies at all. The authors cater to a person who wants to find the easiest way to do something. When you’ve written your book and you’ve chosen a title, make sure you appeal to your readers’ interests and intelligence!
If you use words like stupid, dumb, or hopeless in the title, make sure the meaning is clear and you are not insulting the individual reader.
Books can also target smaller niche groups.. You don’t have to write a universal book like How to use a computer (which may not be interesting enough to sell anyway in this decade). Books can cover more specific topics.
You can: 1) create your book in a specific way for a specific niche readership; and 2) create additional books for different facets of the same subject, and sell each one separately!
Let’s say you’ve decided to write a book on fishing. (FYI, this is one of those hobbies where enthusiasts are willing to spend money!). You could create: “How to Catch Freshwater Trout,” “How to Tie Your Own Flies,” or “How to Plan a Successful Deep Sea Fishing Trip.”
Almost anything related to the hobby can become a separate book depending on how much detail you include. Clearly, “How to put on waders,” probably isn’t a great choice (though some would say it’s impossible to underestimate today’s consumer), because you would have to strain to fill up 60 to 100 pages on such a simple topic. You get the idea. You need to create a “book-worthy” book topic. Use good judgment.
Life itself requires instructions, as we know from “Life’s Little Instruction Book.” Life also qualifies as a good how-to book topic. There are numerous subtopics, and you’ll never run out of ideas. Here are a few examples:
* “How to ensure your child gets an A+ in math”
* “How to have a successful garage sale”
* “How to organize your home office”
While we’re on the subject of how-to books, I’d like to make a quick point: you do not need to create a incredibly clever book title. Make sure the words “How to” are the first part of the title, and the rest should tell exactly what the book is about.
For example, which of these three titles would be best?
1. “How to have a successful garage sale.”
2. “One weekend away from a cleaner house”
3. “How to sell your old shoes for a profit”
Although numbers 2 and 3 are clever, a little punchy, and correspond with the book content, I would recommend title number 1. “How to have a successful garage sale” sums up the book’s topic; it will catch the eye of an Internet surfer who is interested in putting together a garage sale, and needs a how-to manual.
Anyway, back to the point. Any phase of life, way of coping with life, or large or small thing about life, can be the subject of a how-to book.
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Posted by on Feb 17, 2010 in
Academic & Commercial Writing If you are a student who is in need of a good academic model paper to assist you with a class, you will most likely turn to the Internet to perform a Google or Yahoo search of term paper companies. When you do so, you will be faced with the classic double-sided coin: there a hundreds of choices — and you have to hunt through hundreds of choices! How on earth can you choose?
It’s easy if you ask yourself just one question: What’s more important, your education or your wallet?
If you choose your wallet, be prepared for what you will get. In this business, like every other business, quality and price are directly correlated. Lower priced companies tend to provide poor quality, reused papers. Do you care if the model paper you get has been copied and pasted from the Internet? Do you care if the model paper you receive will most probably have been used more than once? Do you care if your model paper will most likely be written by writers who are inexperienced, still students themselves, or citizens of non-native-speaking countries? If you truly do not care about these things (and there are many legitimate reasons why people would not care), then definitely, go with your wallet, search through the lower-end companies, and choose a few to investigate in depth.
If, however, you want to get a good, solid education, then you need a good, solid model paper (of whatever kind, whether it is a term paper, a case study, or a legal brief). For that, you will need to pay the price for a professional writer. That doesn’t mean that you’ll be taken to the cleaners by the academic writing and research industry. Professional writing services offer quality products, but they need to pay their staff a living wage. And isn’t that what it’s all about?
So, take some time, look through a few of the more professional-looking sites, see what kinds of emails they write in response to your queries, and see what kinds of writers they employ. Choose one that clearly offers quality academic papers. Ideally, you’ll find a site you can stick with through your academic career, but be prepared to try a few until that time. It won’t take long, and soon you’ll have the perfect companion for your years of study.
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