Chantal

My book has been rejected by two publishers! I?m dismayed and I?m giving up!

No, not really. There are plenty of other publishers out there who I can approach and someone will, eventually see sense and give me a publishing deal. (Imagine being the person who originally turned down JK Rowling and her first book about a wizard!)

So until I do get a publishing deal, I?m going to do something else with my book. I?ve planned 10 chapters, each with 4 sections; at least one section per chapter has a marketing focus. I?m going to turn each section into a workbook, starting with the theory ? the meat of the section ? and follow it with questions to be answered and activities to carry out. For example, the section on ?Grown up marketing? will encourage readers to look at what marketing they can do, to make the right impression, when starting up a business. As you can?t really get away with homemade business cards, what do you need to do to get them produced professionally?  There will be tips on the best way of doing things ? according to my opinion and experience.

Each section will be available to purchase and download, from my website, with a new chapter being added each month. Customers will be able to buy individual sections or whole chapters, selecting specific topics and the help they need.

Each month I?ll be writing a newsletter, based on the section of the current chapter that focuses on marketing. The newsletter will be used to tell my readers about the latest section and when it will be available. There will also be blogs about that subject throughout the month. All integrated and planned ? which should make the writing easier!

Chapter one is about getting started from the ground up, with sections asking if you?ve got what it takes, how you do proper marketing from the outset, how to find the motivation to keep going and what to do with advice you?re given. It should be ready to download (and watch, because I?m going to video someone talking through each section too) in February 2011. The newsletter, about grown up marketing, will go out in February to promote the chapter. In January we?ll create the video version, and this month we?ll turn the words, which have been written, into great looking PDFs.

Chapter two will go through exactly the same process, so that it?s ready to buy in March. And so we?ll go on, all through 2011. Now that I?ve told you that?s what I?ll be doing, I don?t have any excuses, do I?! I?d better get with turning Chapter One into some PDFs!