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Writing a book is a great way for business owners to inspire and educate their clients, and leverage their knowledge and expertise.

It will help you to get known for what you do, establish yourself as an authority, and get noticed by more people who need your help.

In Your Book is the Hook, Karen takes you through her proven six-step process to plan, write, publish and market the book that will help you to grow your business.

This book includes:

Book planning strategies to create the perfect structureGetting clear on your niche market and ideal readerUnderstanding what your reader wants to learn from your bookDeveloping your signature system and business processFinding your unique angle and hookHow to get startedHow to write a book tips and strategiesThings that might stop you from finishing your bookBook editing, proofreading and typesettingHow to nail your book title and coverThe different ways to publish a book - traditional and self-publishing methodsGetting powerful endorsementsBook marketing principlesBuilding a business and raising your credibilityBecoming a bestseller and launching your book

Plus there are links to more useful resources. 

If you're ready to successfully plan your book, write your book, and publish your book, then buy your copy now. 

Karen Williams is The Book Mentor from Librotas and the author of five bestselling books. She works with business owners to plan, write, publish and promote a book that builds their business, raises their credibility and attracts higher-paying clients.

 

There has never been a better time for coaches, consultants, and therapists to write and publish a business book. With a great idea, a clear strategy, and a well-formed marketing plan, your book will help you to build your business and attract more clients.

Your book may be a manual, textbook, how-to guide, self-help book, anthology, parable, memoir, or any type of book that you hope will be a marketing tool and credibility builder.

In Book Marketing Made Simple, you'll get easy to follow strategies to market your book at all stages of your journey – from the day you start to write a book until after your book launch.

 

In section 1, you'll learn pre-launch book marketing strategies to:

Create compelling content to develop your online profile, build your credibility, and become an expert and thought leader.Integrate your online marketing, blogs, newsletter, social media, podcasts, video, and webinars to build a community of people who love what you do and want to buy your book.Develop new and existing contacts to help with your book promotion.Pre-sell your book or seek crowdfunding to fund your book.

Section 2 will help you with your book launch, and show you how to:

Get publicity through print publications, radio, TV, and other PR.Develop your Amazon sales page and become an Amazon bestseller.Hold a memorable book launch party to celebrate your book's success.Use tools like Goodreads, Thunderclap and endorsements to reach new audiences with your book.

In section 3, you'll discover how to keep the momentum going with book sales, and:

Create audio and digital versions of your book to widen your reach.Use your book as the framework to produce products and programmes to build profitable income streams from your book.Use speaking opportunities to promote your brand.Make the most of other strategies to keep your book visible and sell more copies.

Karen Williams is The Book Mentor from Librotas and the author of five bestselling books. She works with business owners to plan, write, publish and promote a book that builds their business, raises their credibility and attracts higher-paying clients.

By putting children’s voices at the heart of early childhood education, this essential textbook will help students truly understand what it is young children are saying and will show them how to support the promotion of the child’s voice.Through an innovative story-like approach led by the perspective of children themselves, the authors encourage readers to critically consider how careful listening and responding to young children’s ideas and opinions provides exciting opportunities for a new pedagogical approach within education, thereby challenging dominant discourses. By focusing on real-life examples of what children say about things that are important to them, Listening to Young Children’s Voices provides a wealth of ideas and practical exercises to support an understanding of effective listening. Drawing from research and professional experience, and using theory and new conceptual ideas, the authors guide students to develop knowledge and critical thinking skills.This book makes an important contribution to the discipline of early childhood education. It will be an invaluable tool for those working with and alongside young children, students, educationalists, and policy makers.

By putting children’s voices at the heart of early childhood education, this essential textbook will help students truly understand what it is young children are saying and will show them how to support the promotion of the child’s voice.Through an innovative story-like approach led by the perspective of children themselves, the authors encourage readers to critically consider how careful listening and responding to young children’s ideas and opinions provides exciting opportunities for a new pedagogical approach within education, thereby challenging dominant discourses. By focusing on real-life examples of what children say about things that are important to them, Listening to Young Children’s Voices provides a wealth of ideas and practical exercises to support an understanding of effective listening. Drawing from research and professional experience, and using theory and new conceptual ideas, the authors guide students to develop knowledge and critical thinking skills.This book makes an important contribution to the discipline of early childhood education. It will be an invaluable tool for those working with and alongside young children, students, educationalists, and policy makers.

By putting children's voices at the heart of early childhood education, this essential textbook will help students truly understand what it is young children are saying and will show them how to support the promotion of the child's voice.Through an innovative story-like approach led by the perspective of children themselves, the authors encourage readers to critically consider how careful listening and responding to young children's ideas and opinions provides exciting opportunities for a new pedagogical approach within education, thereby challenging dominant discourses. By focusing on real-life examples of what children say about things that are important to them, Listening to Young Children's Voices provides a wealth of ideas and practical exercises to support an understanding of effective listening. Drawing from research and professional experience, and using theory and new conceptual ideas, the authors guide students to develop knowledge and critical thinking skills.This book makes an important contribution to the discipline of early childhood education. It will be an invaluable tool for those working with and alongside young children, students, educationalists, and policy makers.

By putting children's voices at the heart of early childhood education, this essential textbook will help students truly understand what it is young children are saying and will show them how to support the promotion of the child's voice.Through an innovative story-like approach led by the perspective of children themselves, the authors encourage readers to critically consider how careful listening and responding to young children's ideas and opinions provides exciting opportunities for a new pedagogical approach within education, thereby challenging dominant discourses. By focusing on real-life examples of what children say about things that are important to them, Listening to Young Children's Voices provides a wealth of ideas and practical exercises to support an understanding of effective listening. Drawing from research and professional experience, and using theory and new conceptual ideas, the authors guide students to develop knowledge and critical thinking skills.This book makes an important contribution to the discipline of early childhood education. It will be an invaluable tool for those working with and alongside young children, students, educationalists, and policy makers.

Potty training made easy!Potty training can be a challenging and stressful event for parents and kids alike. This portable manual breaks down each popular potty-training approach, and the pros and cons of each. Plus it has the expert advice you need, along with tips from fellow parents.This handy guide helps you to:Recognize when your child is--or isn''t--readyFind the right training approach for your childKnow when to stop training and when to persevereReward successes and install confidenceThis comprehensive resource helps you turn a typically frustrating period into a time of productive learning. This book will help you leave the diaper bag behind!

The Study Guide for Let Nobody Turn Us Around, 2/e offers key points, comprehension and thought questions, essay questions, suggested research topics, classroom exercises, and media and Internet resources as well as additional selected readings for each section of the book as well as the preface and introduction. Appendices provide guidelines on citation styles and style manuals (MLA, CMS, CBE, APA, and APSA), directions for citing Internet and other electronic sources, suggested Internet resources in four social sciences (anthropology, history, political science, and sociology), a checklist on quoting and paraphrasing, and the table of contents of the second edition of Let Nobody Turn Us Around.

Chance may have a good job, a nice home and a beautiful girlfriend, but he still has ties to his past, like his homeboy, Calhoun, a drug-selling deadbeat. Then Chance''s upright life flips upside down when he''s framed for murder and loses everything—his job, his home, his girlfriend and almost his mind. Behind bars, Chance''s only ray of hope in his life is his pen pal, Deyja. . .. When he''s released after seven years, he finds her, but he doesn''t reveal his true identity to her. Deyja doesn''t realize she''s falling for her former pen pal. All she knows is she''s finally found a man who satisfies her every desire. But when Chance''s old friends creep back into his life, will his past destroy his future with the woman he loves?

Karen Williams, author of Harlem on Lock and The People Vs. Cashmere, brings you this dark street tale. Follow the highs and lows of Cha, Goldie, and Red, who come together for fun, laughs, and sometimes treachery in Long Beach, California. For these three ladies, survival was always about getting over by using lies, deceit, and sex. But when a plan goes dangerously wrong, Cha and Goldie take a step back out of the life. Cha desperately wants to rid herself of the demons of her past so she can at least feel normal enough to raise her son, Omari. Goldie ain''t feeling the hood life anymore. She''s tired of going from man to man, and knows her parents are rolling over in their graves at the life she chose for herself. Red craves the streets, and will cross anyone, friends included, to get what she wants. She steps deeper in the game, making her dirtier than she already is--so dirty that she will betray both Cha and Goldie, leading to horrifying consequences. Dirty to the Grave goes harder than Karen Williams has ever gone, with an explosive ending that will shock you and make you wonder: Are your friends really your friends? They say life is hard from the cradle to the grave, and once you think people can''t get any dirtier, they do!

Giselle thinks she has the perfect life. Her fine and sexy husband, Giovanni, is obsessed with his perfect wife and gives her whatever her heart desires. Giselle thinks her husband can do no wrong. What she doesn''t know is that his lucrative adult film company is not as legit as it seems, and Giovanni''s seedy dealings put his precious wife in danger. Giselle is kidnapped by a vicious drug dealer named Bryce, who is hell bent on revenge after his sister comes up missing and he believes Giovanni is responsible. Bryce takes the thing he knows Giovanni treasures most. He plans to torture Giselle, but instead he finds himself falling in love with her. He reveals the truth about Giovanni and the news pushes her right into Bryce''s arms. Giovanni wages a war against Bryce and anyone close to him, leaving several dead bodies in his wake. Now that he has his wife back, Giovanni thinks things can return to the way they were. Giselle, however, can''t get Bryce out of her system, and continues to see him behind Giovanni''s back. As the war between these two men heats up again, Giselle has to decide if being with the man she loves is worth risking her life.

After becoming involved with sexy, thugged-out Santana, good girl Alexis Vancamp followed him down a destructive path that landed her behind bars. Five years later, her case is overturned, and she is released from prison. Now mature, humble, and newly reformed, Alexis goes back to her hometown, trying to get past the death of someone dear to her. She wants to do the hard work of rebuilding her life and repairing the relationships with her family, friends, and the church. Determined to right all the wrong she has done, Alexis vows not to give up.  When things seem like they are headed in the right direction, Santana reemerges with a vicious plan to finish where he left off. This means causing destruction to Alexis and all she loves. Secrets are revealed about Alexis’s mother and her relationship with Santana’s father that blow Alexis away. Lives are lost, and Alexis, framed by Santana, finds herself back in prison. Will she be able to escape the madness he brings this time, or will he destroy her for good?

Meet the Pierce family. Desmond Pierce, a hard-working man from the South is determined to give his and wife and daughters a good life in Compton, California. Pearla Pierce is a sexy and seductive mother who plays wifey and devoted mother only when her husband is home. Then there''s Carmen, a promiscuous seventeen-year-old on a self-destructive path and jealous of her younger sister. Cashmere, a thirteen-year-old, struggles to hold her family together out of love for her father. When tragedy hits home, Carmen and Cashmere find themselves orphans living with their hateful aunt and having to resort to stripping and selling drugs to survive. Carmen drags Cashmere into a world of drugs, violence and sex when she allows a ruthless pimp named Black to turn her out. Against her will, Cashmere is also forced to work for Black by prostituting herself for high-class ballers. Carmen''s jealousy toward her younger sister continues when she sees Black falling in love with Cashmere. Carmen''s need to destroy her sister sets off a chain of events that lands Cashmere in jail. Cashmere is left alone and broken, but with the hope that some way, somehow, she can be fixed.

Bestselling urban author Karen Williams returns with another explosive tale of obsessive love gone horribly wrong.Twenty-four-year-old Alexis Vancamp has the world at her feet. She is young, beautiful, educated, and adored by her family, fiancé, and friends. Just when she thinks her life is set, in walks sexy, thugged-out Santana. He''s a dangerous man with a dark secret, a rough past, and a plan to get Alexis under his thumb. Despite the warnings from the people around her, Alexis finds herself drawn to this man. To have him means to lose everything, but none of this bothers Alexis as long as she has him in her world. Santana soon leads Alexis down a destructive path. He turns her away from her family and friends. Alexis''s sheltered life dissipates as she finds herself wrapped up in deceit, violence, lies, and trouble with the law. Despite losing almost everything, Alexis still refuses to let Santana go. When his mind-blowing secret is revealed, will she step away before it''s too late?

There''s a saying that if you''re from my part of town, you''re from around the way.Following in the footsteps of its successful predecessors, Around the Way Girls 7 showcases three popular Urban Books authors and their versions of some very tough, street-smart girls. Nina and Mouse are a couple just trying to survive the hater nation. Only problem is Nina''s a little paranoid when it comes to other women, and Mouse is usually guilty as charged. Fed up with Mouse''s cheating, Nina begins to creep a little herself, but will her revenge blow up in her face??Diamond hates her messed-up life, her sorry-behind county recipient daddy and his broke, crack-smoking girlfriend. Most of all, Diamond hates her mother, who didn''t love her enough to stick around. But there are two sides to every story, and Diamond is about to hear the other side to hers. ?Homegirls Whakelah, LaShawn, and Misha have big dreams to make it out of Webster Projects. There was a time their bond seemed unbreakable, but now that Misha has found love and a ticket to the big time, her friends want to go along for the ride. How far are they willing to go to chase that paper?

After the madness caused by Black Mitchell, Cashmere and Demarco want to move on and build a future, but the past continues to haunt them. Now married, successful business owners, they live in a huge house in Inglewood, CA, with their timid thirteen-year-old daughter, Dominique; however, things are far from perfect or even normal. Demarco holds deep resentment toward Cashmere and wants out of the marriage. His anger toward his wife makes him unable to have a close relationship with Dominique, who looks for a father''s love elsewhere. Cashmere''s past continues to haunt her. Black Mitchell might be in prison, but that doesn''t stop him from his quest to destroy Cashmere''s life for putting him there. As Cashmere struggles to save her marriage, Dominique finds herself pushed into the same life her mother escaped. Tragedy hits home and Cashmere loses everything. Will she be able to save her daughter before it''s too late?