Non Fiction Publishers
How to Cash In on Your Rejected Non-Fiction Titles
Author: Jim Green
Even established authors get the thumbs down from publishers on submission of new work.
I should know because despite having 37 traditionally published titles under my belt, I have around a dozen still unpublished.
Here is what I did and what do if you’d like to cash in on your rejected non-fiction works…
- Take the strongest; the best piece of advice from the selected tome
- Convert it into a PDF file
Now just give it away…
Why give your best information away for free?
Here’s why: give your best stuff away and nine out of ten recipients will reckon the rest of what you have to offer must be mustard. It’s a quirk of human nature…
Here is the complete formula:
- Take your selected tome and convert into an instructional digital product
- Alternatively, convert the strongest chapters into individual products
- Do both if you are of a mind to…
- Invest in a domain name that fits the purpose (it will only cost you a few dollars)
- Set up a squeeze page for your giveaway
- Set up a webpage (or pages) to house your saleable merchandise promotion
- Load your produce to a reliable storage server
- Decide on your price point(s)
- Create lots of articles relating to your specialist niche
- Submit them on a gradual basis (complete with your URL in a bio box) to Ezine Articles (Google loves them and ranks their pages highly)
- Create a resource page on your site and include all your articles with an invitation to visitors to download and use them themselves
- Use your giveaway squeeze page to collect prospective customer email addresses
- Choose a couple of payment processors (ClickBank & PayPal for example)
- Email your list (if you have one) regularly with both offers and advice
- Set up a blog
- Promote sensibly through Facebook
- Do likewise on Twitter
- Do not use so-called ‘safe lists’; they’ll waste your money or get you into trouble
Does this all sound like too much trouble?
Not for me it isn’t…
From just ONE rejected non-fiction title I have over the years created 10 digital information products all of which sell consistently and show no visible signs of slowing down.
Try this; it works.
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About the Author
JIM GREEN is a traditionally published author with 37 bestselling-in-their-niche titles in the realms of fiction and non-fiction http://rejectednonfiction.howtoproducts-xl.com
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http://www.writewords.org.uk/directory/level1_pages.asp?typeid=26
Go to what you’ve written about and keep categorizing it and eventually you’ll come to an address.
🙂 Good luck publishing!
I suggest you check out Preditors & Editors, a resource for the serious writer, composer, game designer, or artist to consult for information, regardless of genre.
http://www.anotherealm.com/prededitors/
I have a book that you might look at in a public library that would have the answer.
I’d recommend the Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook 2006 as an essential resource for anyone wanting to approach publishers with any kind of book, as it’s got lots of useful advice as well as all the contacts you need.
I’d phone in the first place to establish who the best person is to send it to, provide a one or two page summary of the book with a bit of information about who you are and check their guidelines on their website or by asking them in terms of if they need a CV or how many chapters they want to see in the first instance.
Most publishers these days seem to accept submissions by email, which is very handy (some don’t though, so be prepared to post stuff) and they like it double spaced.
Another option is to approach an agent, details again are in the Yearbook I mentioned.
Getting copyright of any kind is the author’s job (I know that it is if you’re going to use copyrighted material in your book. I’m not sure about getting your own coppyright, but I think you’re supposed to do that too.)
You, the author, cite your sources. MLA format is an excellent format for doing this. A good website to help with this sort of thing is here: http://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/workshop/citmla.htm
You can also go to a bookstore and pick up some good books about citing your work. ‘The Chicago Manual of Style’ is one such book.
What’s the best way to approach a publisher with a non-fiction text book?
publishers such as Oxford Univ. Press, Cambridge, Harvard, Longman…
Looking for good small publisher of creative non-fiction?
Not all publishers of non-fiction are the same. I’m looking for a creative, aggressive small publisher that likes and does well with narrative and creative non-fiction or true crime?
Who gets copyrights for a non-fiction work?
Do you get them yourself or does the publishers get them? For photos. For example, a famous sports photo. Would I have to supply copyright info or would the publishers do that for me? Also how do non-fiction works’ sources get cited? Author or publisher?
I should’ve said obtain copyrights. I have no idea about writing books. It’s just an idea I have. I’m not going to start anything until I have more information on these kinds of things.
free non-fiction publishers?
I’ve written an interesting book, titled with a big “?”. Can someone please give me the contact details of a non-fiction publisher that won’t charge, but will incur the cost of publishing with the selling of tbe book? Or is there a website of non-fiction publishers?
Which Canadian Publishers accept unsolicited queries for non fiction?
Specifically, memoirs of an “Adult” nature.