Is My Book Idea a Good One? Special Interactive Workshop on Writing your Book

Posted on 09/28/13

Remind Me

This will be an interactive workshop will be interactive.  Participants should bring the following two things:

1. Two book ideas or an overview of a book-in-progress;
2. A table-of-contents of one of one book idea, 10 to 12 chapters

We’ll discuss:

• What if somebody steals my idea? (and why you shouldn’t worry about it)
• Overview of the stats  re: books published each year;
• What’s your competition?
• How to search Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powell Books, and the Indie Bookstores to see if your book idea has already been done;
• How to tweak your idea to stand out from the rest;
• What about titles and subtitles?
• If there’s already a book on “your” topic, and it’s a best-seller, is that good or bad?
• Looking at your audience (obvious and unexpected audiences);
• Naming your niche realistically;
• Braining-storming your book idea and angle in depth (time permitting);
• Why you should start with a table-of-contents;
• How much research do you need to do first and what kind?

Register Here!

Sylvia Cary, LMFT, who just won the ‘GOLD” in the Dan Poynter Global E-book Awards, is a psychotherapist, book consultant, publisher (Timberlake Press), and the author of five books. Her latest is The Therapist Writer: Helping Mental Health Professionals Get Published (Amazon.com, BN.com & Kindle),  which was also named a winner in the 2013 Beverly Hills Book Awards and Finalist in the 2013 National Indie Excellence Awards (NIEA).