Join Us This Week For Free Travel Writing Lessons on Finding a Market For Your Non-Fiction Book and Crafting the Proposal
In the two years since we began running regular one-hour travel writing classes, we’ve covered more than 80 topics, including:
- how to land free trips
- how to get paid really, really well for your writing
- how to get on magazine editors’ good sides
- how to navigate every step of the process to land travel content marketing work, including phone calls and proposals
- how to keep your hourly rate down so your bank account goes up
- how to get work done on the road
- how to write, step-by-step, 15 different types of travel articles
- how to land guidebook and other traditional publishing deals
You can grab access to all of our past webinars (and a ton of other resources you can’t find anywhere else) with a subscription to our Dream Buffet or grab them one-by-one when you need them in our On-Demand Webinar Library for a set with the video, audio, transcript, and slides.
But we also air a free replay of one of our travel writing classes each and every weekday.
Each weekday at 2pm PST / 5pm EST / 10pm GMT / 11pm CET (and 9am AEDT Tues-Sat), we show one webinar from our archives, rotating though all of them over the course of four months.
Here’s what we’ve got for you this week:
Monday, August 26, 5pm EST: The Guidebook Guide Series: The Writing Side of Guidebook Work
In this webinar, we explore what it is like to work as a guidebook writer today, from the money to the travel to the actual writing.
We also answer the question what is it actually like to write a book-length work in a month or two–particularly working in a tried and true formula you have little control over?
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Monday, August 26.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Tuesday, August 27, 5pm EST: What Is and What Is Not a Salable Non-Fiction Book Today: Finding Your Place in the Marketplace
You shouldn’t take one step down the research rabbit hole with a book project until you understand how it fits into the marketplace. Editors and agents love to ask “where would this go in Barnes and Noble,” and their favorite authors are the ones that understand the book industry.
In this webinar, we explore what is selling today (along with some peeks at what is not and why) and explore the age-old question of to self-publish or not to self-publish, but I introduce you to a powerful tool that can help you quickly and easily find both what your book should focus on (because the decision really isn’t up to you) and how to get an agent!
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Tuesday, August 27.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Wednesday, August 28, 5pm EST: Know Your Non-Fiction Book’s Market to Make Its Business Case
In this webinar, I introduce the non-fiction book proposal and its main sections and then zero in on one of the two you need to spend your most time and research prowess on: the target market.
This is where your book will literally live and die. It doesn’t matter to an agent how interesting they think your topic is if he doesn’t think they can sell it to an editor, and it doesn’t matter to an editor how much she loves your writing if her publisher doesn’t think he can make his money back and more on the book.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Wednesday, August 28.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Thursday, August 29, 5pm EST: You Are Your Non-Fiction Book’s Best Marketer: How to Make It Work
In the previous webinar, we looked at one of the two most important sections of your non-fiction book proposal, and in this webinar, we dive into the second: the marketing plan.
No matter what connections you do or don’t have now, you can still make a killer marketing plan that is believable to a publisher and perfectly positions your book in the market. It all comes down to the triad of research, creativity, and a willingness to put yourself out there for your book.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Thursday, August 29.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Friday, August 30, 5pm EST: The Parts of Your Book Proposal About You and Your Book (And Why They’re Much Less Important!)
There are several parts of the non-fiction book proposal—the author bio, overview, chapter summary, and sample chapters—that can easily feel like the parts you should spend the majority of your time on, but they can easily become enormous time sucks!
In this webinar, we look at how to efficiently power through the rest of your book proposal to get it polished and down without drowning in decision paralysis so your proposal can leave your laptop and do what it’s supposed to do: get agents interested in your project so you can get the feedback you need to make changes based on the knowledge of people who live and breathe books (a.k.a. book professionals and not you!).
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Friday, August 30.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
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