Non-fiction: Writing Short Non-fiction eBooks for Amazon
What you'll learn
- My Preferred Word 2016 Screen Layout
- Selecting a Target Niche to Write About
- Establishing Your Amazon Non-fiction Release Schedule and Pricing
- Formatting Your Non-fiction Manuscript in Microsoft Word 2016
- Working with Images
- Building Your Chapter Outline
- Maintaining a Bibliography of Your Source Material
- Paraphrasing and Summarizing Your Source Material
- Writing Short Essays
- Overview of the Self-publishing Process
Requirements
- You'll need a copy of Microsoft Word 2016 to follow along with some lectures
Description
Do you want to write but you don't know how to begin? Have you considered writing short non-fiction?
Do you want to write but you don't know what to write about? Again, consider writing short non-fiction.
In this course, I'll teach you how to write short 10k word manuscripts for self-publication on Amazon in eBook format. I'll teach you everything you need to know even if you're not a very good writer and you've never published before.
In this course you'll learn:
My Preferred Word 2016 Screen Layout
Establishing Your Amazon Non-fiction Release Schedule and Pricing
Finding a Niche to Write In
Writing in a Series and Naming Your Book to Be Found
Formatting Your Non-fiction Manuscript in Microsoft Word 2016
Title Page, Table of Contents and Mailing List
Working with Images
Building Your Chapter Outline
Researching Your Target Niche
Maintaining a Bibliography of Your Source Material
Paraphrasing and Summarizing Your Source Material
Writing Short Essays for Each Chapter
Self-editing Your Work
Overview of the Self-publishing Process
That's all you need to know to write a short non-fiction eBook on any topic, even if you know nothing about the topic you're writing about.
Enroll today to begin publishing one or more non-fiction eBooks per month to optimize your self-publishing revenue.
Enroll now and I'll see you in the classroom,
---Brian
Who this course is for:
- Anyone with a desire to write and publish their work
- Anyone wanting to establish a catalog of published books quickly
- Anyone who has been struggling writing their first book
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Instructor
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I was born in the middle of the last century in Los Angeles, California. After moving for a time to the Silicon Valley, I graduated from Humboldt State University amid the redwoods of Northern California.
Two weeks after graduation I was working as a computer systems programmer for Lockheed Missiles and Space (LMSC) back in the Silicon Valley. Two months after that and I was married as I have been happy ever since (for 40 years).
After 14 years at Lockheed, I moved from working on IBM mainframes to using PCs running the Unix operating system and encountered a thing called the Internet. Cisco Systems seemed to be the right place to work, so I joined the company as their 650th employee. Eleven years later Cisco had grown to over 20,000 employees.
I retired at the age of 48 and instantly became bored!
Throughout my professional career, I'd always enjoyed both writing and providing technical training. So, I attended creative writing classes at my local junior college and began to write.
I managed to write and self-publish a handful of books, but things didn't take off until my wife, Melanie Jackson, an established author with a New York company, left traditional publishing to join me in self-publishing.
In 10 years, from 2010 to now, Melanie and I have made half-a-million dollars self-publishing well over 100 books. I also managed to record a pair of audiobooks for Amazon and Audible sale.
By 2014, our rapid rise to Kindle fame had already dwindled. I decided to pursue my second passion of giving training presentations.
Since 2014 I've published over 48 online video training courses for training sites such as Udemy and Skillshare. My goal is to provide low-cost high-quality screencast-based educational material focusing on my areas of expertise; namely, self-publishing and book cover design using the GIMP. I continue to expand my video training catalog while focusing some energy on resurrecting our flagging book sales using various marketing techniques. Finally, I spend a portion of my time maintaining both my website and my wife’s website, which was developed using WordPress.
I currently live in Las Vegas, Nevada, with my lovely wife and Butterscotch the cat.
I'll see you in the classroom,
---Brian