Gordon Burgett
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Gordon Burgett currently speaks nationwide about three topics, “How to Publish Your Own Book in 30 Days or Less,” “Niche Publishing,” and “How to Plan a Great Second Life,” offering keynotes, break-out sessions, and workshops at conventions, retreats, and colleges or universities.
Gordon’s most recent book is How to Get Your Book Published Free in Minutes and Marketed Worldwide in Days.
Burgett has also published 1,700+ articles and offered over 2,000 professional spoken presentations, mostly to associations and conventions and through university extension programs. During that time he has appeared extensively on radio and TV, as a guest author and a publishing specialist. Burgett is a long-standing member of the National Speakers Association, the American Society of Authors and Journalists, and the Independent Book Publishers Association; has produced 26 audio CD and cassette programs, and has written 40 published books His most popular book is Niche Publishing.
Four of Burgett’s books have been Writer’s Digest Book Club top choices: Sell and Resell Your Magazine Articles, The Travel Writer’s Guide, The Writer’s Guide to Query and Cover Letters, and How to Sell More Than 75% of Your Freelance Writing. Another was published by Writer’s Digest.
Gordon has owned and directed a publishing company, Communication Unlimited, since 1981. It continues to offer books, reports, and audio CDs about writing, empire-building, and niche publishing. Since 2005, it has added an education imprint, with books for superintendents, principals, and K-12 teachers.
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The most asked question, to me as a writing teacher with a ton of articles in print, is what absolutely has be in the piece for it to sell? That's tough to answer because one sock never fits all. But here I start with facts, quotes, anecdotes, and perhaps artwork. And suggest that a solid structure also helps! And pay attention to the second paragraph...
How can you get your book published in just hours or daysfree? First, you must write the book! Since your book will be produced by a professional, no-nonsense publisher, the insides and the cover will have to look like other bookstore books. To do that, find the book you most want yours...
Once you've finished your bound book and it's off to press, there are four ways to convert that same copy and sell it as an e-book, singly or simultaneously. Here, Gordon Burgett gives the details.
You can get your book published free in hours (for e-books) or days (bound books)--free! That includes almost any book: memoirs, novel, cookbook, nonfiction how-to, children's... There are six solid publishing houses eager to put your books in print as soon as you send the interior and cover files. And they will provide a free cover-prep software, an ISBN, and market the book worldwide. You can also use all six publishers at once! The biggest surprise: the books look first rate!
The most critical yea-nay time in a non-fiction book's existence is that final, objective reading before it is sent to print or to the last, pre-press proofing. That's where Gordon Burgett has reviewed them since 1980, and in this short article he offers 10 points where those books needing rejection or changes most often err. They provide an excellent review checklist for self-publishers or for new editors acting as the court of last print resort!
There are five ways to publish your book in these offset and POD times. You can have the major publishers do it, you can self-publish, niche self-publishing is even safer and potentially more profitable, e-books are the fastest way (but the least sought, so far), and there's the new ancillary publishing, where you can have your book in print within a week, free--think Lulu, CreateSpace, and Blurb among the seven publishers in this field.
