Besides MJ, anyone else wrote a book?

[bigbet1234]

What are some suggestions you can give, if any?

I would like to lean towards Kindle. Seems you can hit a wide variety of customers at one pop.

 

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[cashflow3000]

Get it done.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Get it done.

Ditto.

 

[callmelucid]

i feel like if you write for kindle, you have to write for a specific demographic in a specific niche. i get the feeling that most people with kindles are middle aged women who buy romantic novels weekly so they want to save money in the long run by going digital. maybe that's just my impression (i own a kindle btw lol)

what type of book were you thinking of writing?

 

[bigbet1234]

Million made and lost over a 4-6 year period, with all the gritty details

i feel like if you write for kindle, you have to write for a specific demographic in a specific niche. i get the feeling that most people with kindles are middle aged women who buy romantic novels weekly so they want to save money in the long run by going digital. maybe that's just my impression (i own a kindle btw lol)

what type of book were you thinking of writing?

 

[bigbet1234]

How do you begin writing a book?

I have so many thoughts, not sure how to put it all down. How many chapters, etc?

 

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[Stu_Hefner]

Million made and lost over a 4-6 year period, with all the gritty details

Million made and lost? Wow, I'm already interested in reading it.

I'm not sure exactly how a book should be written; a friend of mine wrote an autobiography, it happened to be 200 or so pages. I think he went to someone to format it in the correct manner.

This is the book: Amazon.com: The Last Stand (9781461002000): Jason Pensill, Kevin Kirkpatrick: Books

I'll ask him his process. I'm sure MJ will be able to give some insight also.

 

[wade1mil]

i get the feeling that most people with kindles are middle aged women who buy romantic novels weekly so they want to save money in the long run by going digital.

Found this website for Kindle user statistics:

Results of Kindle User Demographic Survey

 

[DeletedUser2]

I wrote a 500 page book/course.

Sat down and used a mind map to start capturing all the ideas.

started collecting them into larger categories.

created a table of contents, and moved the categories and ideas there

got some feed back so i wasn't working in a vacuum.

then I sat down and started with a chapter title, and a question. the question was, as if someone asked me about....

I then started writing. would write every few days for about 2 hrs at a time. no more.

took me 6 months.

I did another book, wrote 15 chapter titles, rearranged them,
wrote out 10-15 questions, for each chapter.

handed the questions to a friend,
turned on the recorder, had him ask me the questions, then shut up.

I talked for a a couple hours, sent audio to transcribe, (odesk)
had 130 page book back in 2 weeks.

send to edit (elance) another week later was down to 120 pages.

done.

both are in pdF and word docs.
had a quote to put the 120 page one on kindle for 80 bucks.

 

[bigbet1234]

Thanks for the info guys.

I am going to complete my course for certification then I am going to work on my book.

How would you market and sell a book if you want to remain anonymous?

I wrote a 500 page book/course.

Sat down and used a mind map to start capturing all the ideas.

started collecting them into larger categories.

created a table of contents, and moved the categories and ideas there

got some feed back so i wasn't working in a vacuum.

then I sat down and started with a chapter title, and a question. the question was, as if someone asked me about....

I then started writing. would write every few days for about 2 hrs at a time. no more.

took me 6 months.

I did another book, wrote 15 chapter titles, rearranged them,
wrote out 10-15 questions, for each chapter.

handed the questions to a friend,
turned on the recorder, had him ask me the questions, then shut up.

I talked for a a couple hours, sent audio to transcribe, (odesk)
had 130 page book back in 2 weeks.

send to edit (elance) another week later was down to 120 pages.

done.

both are in pdF and word docs.
had a quote to put the 120 page one on kindle for 80 bucks.

 

[domular]

Just go to https://www.createspace.com/ (amazon's on demand print service) and do it all. Sell the book on amazon instantly and offer it on Kindles too.

 

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[DeletedUser2]

Thanks for the info guys.

I am going to complete my course for certification then I am going to work on my book.

How would you market and sell a book if you want to remain anonymous?

make a pen name, an avatar.

When we create avatars. we have names, pictures, backgrounds bios, age, occupation, sex, views ect.

the reason for doing this, is you can "write" from their perspective also.

depends on how much work you want to do.

but works for us

 

[DeletedUser2]

Just go to https://www.createspace.com/ (amazon's on demand print service) and do it all. Sell the book on amazon instantly and offer it on Kindles too.

you can do that.

i just wanted to hand it off so it only took me 5 min.
does not take to long to put on amazon. just a little learning curve.

but i didn't want to take the time, when someone else was willing to do it.
I sell the book for 97 bucks, so just 1 book paid for the person to do it.
D

 

[bigbet1234]

Thanks for the commments guys, much appreciated.

I have just finished my first short story. i want to do a series of them, but not sure how it will work.

my plan is to write approx 30-40 short stories documenting the steps i took to make the million, then in the same regards, losing it.

each i will call it diary entries will be approx 2-10 pages at a cost of .99c-$4.99. I am working on a catchy title now. Seems if you can attract a following with a great first entry to keep the reader wondering more, wanting more it could work.

any more advice on how to market it would be great. i imagine i would put a new one out every 1-3 weeks

thoughts?

 

[Kak]

I have been toying with the idea of writing a "how I will make my millions" book from the perspective of now and then when I actually do it it will be a pretty bad a$$ book.

 

[bigbet1234]

Kak:

I agree. how I made it is odd to say the least, but not so odd how I lost it

 

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