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What is the process to get my book published?
If you are willing to educate yourself to give voice to your purpose your already half way to winning a publishing contract.

• STEP ONE
  Register for the next InspireABook Mastermind Publishing Circle
  Only 8 people qualify each month.
  The Mastermind course is facilitated by the publisher, not a book coach who has no experience or ability to actually help you get your book published.
  • How does the Mastermind Circle help me get published?
    The circle facilitates critical thinking to shift your paradigm of the purpose of a book. A book gives voice to your purpose. The Mastermind Circle empowers you to understand how important your message is! It helps you to clarify and crystalize the purpose of your book. 
  • Why a Mastermind Circle and why only 8 people?
    The publisher facilitates a mastermind circle of like-minded visionaries and new thought leaders to harness the bigger picture of the understanding how your message can make a world of difference.
    The mastermind publishing circle creates a community of collaborative transformational writers that assist one another to clarify and crystalize the purpose of the book with valuable feedback. The publisher then facilitates the circle to transform that vision into a book that changes lives. The vision is transformed not only into a book but into a platform for your bigger purpose. 
  • So this is not a writing workshop?
    No, the mastermind helps you to clarify the purpose of writing your book. You have the information, whatever it is presently in the form of ideas, thoughts, blogs, journal notes, workshop curriculum, coaching practice or a partly completed manuscript and in some cases a completed manuscript.
    The InspireABook Mastermind helps you to transform that information into the platform of a book that clearly defines:
    
    1. What the target reader is
    2. What they want to know when they read your book.
    3. What you will teach them and what tools and benefits you deliver in your book.
    4. How your book can change their life.

    

  • What are the outcomes of The InspireABook Mastermind Weekend?
    Once you clearly understand the purpose of your book you will work out the packaging of your book to ensure you are delivering the message.
    1. Write the key marketing message (the synopsis, back page copy of your book.)
       I’ve not even written the book and I’m working on the cover?
       Yes, how can you write your book if you are not clear on what you are promising to deliver in your book?
    2. Create the table of contents, chapter titles and a complete writing plan of the content of each chapter.
    3. Mastermind the title/subtitle book cover design concept.

     

• STEP TWO
  Monthly Accountability, Author Circle Meetings, Facilitated by the Publisher.
  When you graduate from the InspireABook Mastermind you will be invited by the publisher into the inner circle – IF YOU QUALIFY.
  • Is it guaranteed you will qualify?
    No, this is the first stage of qualification. Joining the mastermind group the publisher has observed if the purpose of your book qualifies to be “An Author of Influence” This generally comes down to the author’s willingness to dig deep into the true authentic message of the book. 
  • What do we do in the Author Circle Meeting? What is the benefit to me?
    Your commitment to delivering your message of influence has only just begun! Each month the agenda of the circle meetings looks like this.
    
    1. In the first meeting you will set your goals to complete your book and request a target publish date. Each month you will be held accountable to your goals.
    2. Subject for discussion and the in’s and out’s of publishing. IE: editing, format, book size, e-books etc…publishing proposals.
    3. Marketing/Promotion: Each month a we discuss the launch and ongoing promotion and marketing of your book.

     

• STEP THREE
  The publishing contract.
  You will give you a template to write your proposal.
  This proposal can be used to submit to other publishers or agents by Julie Salisbury or submitted to the Influence Publishing Family.
  By the time you submit your proposal, the publisher will already know if you qualify to be published by the Influence Publishing Family because of the ongoing relationship you have already established.

• STEP FOUR
  If your contract is awarded with one of the Influence Publishing genres, this is the precedure:
  A: Content approved chapter by chapter, review and re-writes for editing.
  B: All other elements of the book approved;
  Chapter titles
  Table of contents
  Title, sub-title
  Cover design
  Back page copy, concepts
  Testimonials
  Foreword
  Author Bio
  Introduction, Afterword
  Dedication, Acknowlegments
  C: Final approval of front and back cover design and typeset
  D: Book Launch Plan

Are we as part of the writers group expected to purchase every author’s book in all writing groups?

No this is not an expectation but as part of the collaborative process as you get to know the other authors in the other circles, you will want to know about what they are working on, and when you launch your book, ensure everyone knows about it.  It goes without saying, that if you have supported their launch and purchased their book, if you feel it can be of use to you or your friends or family (which I am sure almost every book has a market for someone we know) they will want to support your book.  If everyone did this for everyone else, we would actually be guaranteed 60 pre-orders for each book as it is launched – a great foundation to make best seller status with the Amazon campaign!  BUT I would not want to insist on the other authors did this – but I can ask!

Also on the subject of collaboration.  Once you get your information up on the one of the AuthorsCircle website author page, you can start to develop relationships, not only with your other authors who can see your author page, but with all the other visitors to the website and the media that visits the author pages for author interviews – radio, TV, press etc.  We have online radio hosts that regularly check us for guests including Peter Tongue, Voice America plus Conscious Radio in Vancouver, ATW network, Charmed Life TV, Shaw TV, CFAX radio on the island and various pod cast hosts.

Once you are a subscribed member of the author circle you can also post all your events, workshops etc on the website and request me to send out notifications to all the members.  (We plan also to have an active blog soon as we get commitments from a few authors to keep it active!)  I do prefer to give preferential prices to the authors as part of the benefit of being part of the circle, so please talk to me about how you can offer your services to the other authors.

With the pre-ordering you do for the books, are the books being placed on Amazon’s best selling list for the one day you process orders only or are they staying for longer than one day? Can you give me an example of a best selling book I can reference?

All books that become best sellers are featured in the archive on Amazon.  Rock your Overwhelm was launched on November 2nd and went to No.1  in Self-Help, New Age, Personal Transformation, Health, Mind Body and No.3 overall best selling book in Canada.  If you go to the archives now it shows as No.42 in the top 100.  I checked status on November 11th when Maureen made No.1 and Whitney was still No.40  so that means in November Influence Publishing had two best sellers in the top 100.  How long you stay there is up to you keeping up the noise level and constantly pushing it out on social media while you are still in the top 100.

Still, the  most important element of the Best seller campaign is that it is a marketing strategy to expose the books to the largest worldwide book retailer.  People find the book who would not otherwise had even seen it.  Here is a testimonial on Whitney’s product page on Amazon.com  posted 5 days after her campaign

5.0 out of 5 stars A valuable resource, Nov 7 2011
By S. Lynch – Published on Amazon U.S.
This review is from: Rock Your Overwhelm: Live in Clarity, Balance and Freedom (Perfect Paperback)
I took notice of this book when, on its release date, it was ranked as the #3 Bestseller book in all of Canada in all topics,#1 in a number of categories including Self-Help, Transformation, Spirituality, New Age, and Health/Body/Mind, and was the #1 Mover & Shaker in New Releases. I particularly like the “Guided Journal” with the choice of levels of exercises.

Which publishing vehicle is likely to publish business nonfiction?

Our publishing company is presently being incorporated so that we may service our authors better with more genres.  It is very important that each publishing brand reflects the books of that genre for that specific readership.  Business books presently would fit more under the Influence Publishing brand rather than the Life Journey brand.  However, proposals are required to be accepted by Influence so you may prefer to fast track with the entrepreneur model we are going to be offering.

Are you saying you will only be doing collaborative book launches for all new writing groups, no matter the category of book?

Collaborative book launches is one of the main advantages of being a member of the Inspired authors circle, all publishing brands will benefit from this.  Amazon best seller campaigns are presently only offered to Influence Publishing authors, but we are investigating a model which could make this available to the other brands.  Haivng said that, each book will be assessed on an individual basis.