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The goal of book marketing is to stop needing to do it
Learn how to:
Most books don''t work
Writing a nonfiction book is a wonderful project, allowing you to preserve & share the most important things you''ve ever learned. Plus, a successful book will improve your reputation, your career, your earnings, & the lives of your readers.
Up until fairly recently, it was possible to receive at least some of these benefits by writing any book, regardless of its quality. But today, a million new titles are published per year and it''s no longer enough to simply join the pile. Instead, you must create something that is able to stand out & succeed. And the most reliable path toward that goal - especially for an unproven author who lacks a pre-existing audience - is to write a book so startlingly useful that readers can''t stop talking about it.
This guide proposes a different way of planning, writing, & refining nonfiction, drawn from the hard-won lessons of product designers & entrepreneurs. Applied properly, it leads to books that can grow organically via reader recommendations for many years, without relying on either heavy marketing or a large author platform.
The preconceptions about "writing a book" are so deeply entrenched that most authors don''t even ask themselves whether a better way exists. Which is crazy, because the normal approach doesn''t work! For example:
These are not good results, but it doesn''t have to be this way.
By following a more modern approach, my first two books (2013 & 2019) now do more than $150k/year in royalties (and growing). You can do it too. It''s not easy, but it is reliable & repeatable. And in the normally hit-driven, feast-or-famine world of writing, there''s something to be said for reliability.
What this book is not:
This isn''t a get-rich-quick scheme. If you want to write a mediocre book the easy way, then you probably want to look elsewhere.
This isn''t about prose or creativity. I''m assuming that you know how to write a coherent sentence and are able to do the work. Instead, this guide is about understanding how to design, test, and refine nonfiction that succeeds as a long-lasting, high-impact, and recommendable product.
This isn''t a self-publishing guide. I won''t walk you through every tool & technicality of formatting, printing, and shipping a book. Our focus is on creating the most useful, and most recommendable book possible.
Still not sure?
Head on over to writeusefulbooks.com to find more resources, samples, and information.
