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    The Author Startup: A Radical Approach To Rapidly Writing and Self-Publishing Your Book On Amazon
    The Author Startup: A Radical Approach To Rapidly Writing and Self-Publishing Your Book On Amazon
    The Author Startup: A Radical Approach To Rapidly Writing and Self-Publishing Your Book On Amazon
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    The Author Startup: A Radical Approach To Rapidly Writing and Self-Publishing Your Book On Amazon

    By Ray Brehm

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    How to Launch Your Book like a "Lean" Startup Company

    You won't find this anywhere else.

    "What is the fastest way I can get my book done?" I pondered the question a minute. There is all this extravagant education out there on writing a book, filled with hundreds of things to do. But the truth is, you do 20% of the work for 80% of the result (The Pareto Principle).

    How does one accomplish this? By streamlining all the tasks down to the minimum requirements, and focusing on those.

    The Author Startup is a process to create a minimum viable product for your book. It is used to get your book out there and build momentum for you.

    In The Author Startup, you will:

    • Learn the Boogie Board Approach for publishing
    • Use concepts similar to The Lean Startup for your book
    • Learn the exact tools I used to create and publish a book in 26 days
    • Find out how to defeat the "Imposter Syndrome"
    • Receive a complete Action Plan that will change your approach and attitude for publishing your book

    The book contains links to an entire action plan, including video demos. Don't wait to start your book, learn the quickest way to get it published now!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDauntless Prose
    Release dateMar 31, 2017
    ISBN9781386813934
    The Author Startup: A Radical Approach To Rapidly Writing and Self-Publishing Your Book On Amazon

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      The Author Startup - Ray Brehm

      The Author Startup

      The Author Startup

      A Radical Approach To Rapidly Writing and Self-Publishing Your Book On Amazon

      Ray Brehm

      Dauntless Prose

      Copyright © 2017 by Ray Brehm

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      Cover by Ida Fia Sveningsson

      Contents

      Read This First!

      INTRODUCTION

      How to use this book

      I. Mindset

      1. The Boogie Board Approach

      2. The Lean Startup Concept

      3. Positive Disruption

      4. Smaller Bite Size Wins

      II. Write

      5. Map The Book

      6. Map the Chapters

      7. Outline The Chapters

      8. Dictate the Chapters

      III. Edit

      9. Imposter Syndrome

      10. Self Edit By Recording

      11. Grammarly

      12. Send It Off To An Editor

      IV. Clean and Polish

      13. Title and Subtitle

      14. Book Cover

      V. Publish

      15. KDP Setup

      16. Hit That Button!

      17. A Calm Launch Day

      VI. Next Steps

      18. Enjoyment

      19. Reviews

      20. Start Your Mini Platform

      21. How To Launch as a Bestseller

      ACTION PLAN (and links)

      Download the ACTION PLAN

      About the Author

      You Can Help!

      Read This First!

      Download The Author Startup Audiobook FREE!

      https://tas.raybrehm.com/audiobook

      Just to say thanks for downloading my book, I would like to give you Audiobook FREE!

      (A $9.99 Value)

      https://tas.raybrehm.com/audiobook

      Dedication

      To Mom and Dad

      Thanks for giving me every tool

      and opportunity I needed,

      including your support,

      to allow me to be creative

      INTRODUCTION

      I was sitting on the couch at home thinking. What if I had to write a book as soon as possible? What if I had a friend who needed to do that? What would I tell him or her?

      The truth was, I had enough going on. I was creating my Free Author Mini Course, to help aspiring writers. I was also recording the audiobook version of my recent bestseller, Author Your Success. Then there was the sequel to Author Your Success, called Launch Your Success: The Ultimate Guide to Building Launch Teams, Organizing Promos and Scheduling a Best-Seller Book Launch.

      That was plenty.

      As an avid reader, I had also slowly begun evolving to the point where I stopped buying Kindle books that were too long (like more than 40 pages), and I knew other readers were doing that as well.

      So there I was, deciding to chase that next shiny object and write a short Kindle book. It would be a book that gave no choices, told you exactly what to do to get your book done and published on Amazon and that is all.

      Here is the thing. Focusing on being published first is what you should do too. I have taken many courses and seen many students get bogged down in the details. Others look at the list of things you should do and never start.

      Here are things that will slow you down:

      What software should I use to write

      What software should I use to publish to Kindle

      I need to set up my website

      I need to have a freebie inside

      I

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