Q: What if you don’t have the time?
A: You will make the
time: you
and I will meet weekly in person or by telephone for an hour, and you will do a
few hours of work on your book between meetings. In another context, when you
want to achieve a fitness goal and you hire a personal trainer, you get to the
gym on schedule! Think of me as your personal writing/publishing trainer,
without push-ups, sit-ups, and pull-ups..
Q: What if your grammar and spelling are imperfect?
A: You will have my
professional help: as your co-author or editor, I will write some and edit
some.
I have published over 100 technical articles and several books, and my college
scores in English were…well, impressive. I’ll be your safety net.
Q: How much will it
cost?
A: You should be able
to afford it:
my charge is $25/week, and we typically need about 40 weeks, thus about $1000.
The publisher will require $500-1000 for setting up the paperback book [$150
for the ebook] and typically $5-10 for each book you want printed. You can
print as few as 6 or as many as you wish. You will receive any royalties
that come from selling the book.
Q: How will your book be sold?
A:
The book will be sold on-line through the
publisher and through amazon.com and bn.com [Barnes & Noble]. It can be sold as an
electronic book [ebook] through similar channels. You can also buy copies at a
reduced price and sell them yourself.
Q. Don’t you need an agent to get published?
A: That once was pretty
much the case. No longer true. We work with a subsidy publisher [Outskirts Press]
that will not reject books submitted by me. With them, I published Ting and
I: A Memoir of Love, Courage, and Devotion. Subsequently, I finished and
published five more books with first-time authors: The Shield of Gold, Ava
Gardner’s Daughter?, High Shoes and Bloomers, But…at What Cost, and
Kidnapped Twice . Several more are in preparation.
Q: What about your
rights to the book and anything that comes from the book?
A: The publisher we use and I will assure that you retain ALL
rights.
Q:
How do you get started?
A:
Get more information at http://writeyourbookwithme.com
and contact me through the contact page. Even more information is available right
here on this blog site under May at: “Why Would a Former Harvard Professor…?” http://douglaswinslowcooper.blogspot.com/2015/05/why-would-former-harvard-professor.html
Our
first on-on-one session is free, and it will clarify the goals, methods, and potential
outcomes of your book project.
Let’s
do it!
Douglas
Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.
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