It's rare when your best bits of a book don't make the cut.And my recent research proved this exception to become a rule.In the other three books I published in this series, I mentioned that this research process took over two years. And that there were many false starts.But a pattern emerged from this process. I'd take a book as far as I could and then would find myself writing a new book from further questions I had. I'd answered the story question, but had overwritten. Cutting was needed.So as part of polishing up that book, I simply removed all the extraneous material, saving that material into a new document while I finished up polishing that first book for printing.What I'd cut held together as an interesting story own its own, but was too short for a print volume. So it went onto a virtual shelf as just another interesting ebook.I then dug into my planned second book (on copywriting.) This went along fine – until I got to its end and over-wrote it again.So, once more, as I prettied up that now-completed book, I set aside what I'd cut. Again, it was a story that held together, but was not needed. It went onto that virtual shelf, then.The third subject area (writing-craft) was work to research, review and recover lost secrets of writing bestsellers. I 'd earlier come across several classic texts which themselves had been neglected. The model was to produce these review-excerpts as mini-courses. Three mini-courses that made up this book. Each mini-course had a small footprint and its total transcripts added up to a printable text.During the course of that research, I came across two author's works were too short to stand alone, but also didn't fit into the earlier build. So: a fourth and supplemental book.And that last process gave me an idea of what to do with these nice orphans sitting on their virtual shelf. I had these two too-short books, both stylish and easy-reading non-fiction. Both highly applicable to our current scene of professional writing. Great ideas in short format. I knew now they'd make a nice supplement of their own. But even together, they were still not enough for a decent-sized paperback.And the books I sold best were all non-fiction paperbacks. So I dug around in my archives and pulled up Dorothea Brande's classic, Becoming A Writer (another neglected and too-short classic) and – voilà! - we had a somewhat decent length, filled with three highly valuable tomes, if each too short for printing. (And this last book's audiobook also made it into a course of its own.)On that fourth book's own polishing step, I'd found probably the oldest classic storytelling craft – Aristotle's Poetics. Again, too short to publish on its own, but a vital read for professional authors. It also fit the model I'd started – and helped flesh out this last book.So, this fifth supplementary volume was born. Made up of four short books, three courses, all now into one textbook. And this fifth book's material then further answers other questions that affect our modern authors and their success. And are slated to become a bundle of texts and courses available separately as well.You're welcome.Here's now a way to answer all sorts of questions that lay outside the earlier four books already published in this series. All for curious students of writing craft and its business who run across those questions. This fifth book then puts a nice bow on this series. And I can get on with my next research, knowing that I've made all I discovered into five print-worthy volumes. Ones that will sell each other and more importantly give answers writers have been looking for well before self-publishing became a thing.All for your reading and discovery.Good Hunting!
