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    Rapid Story Development #3: Ten Questions Every Writer Needs to Ask Before They Hire a Consultant: Rapid Story Development, #3
    Rapid Story Development #3: Ten Questions Every Writer Needs to Ask Before They Hire a Consultant: Rapid Story Development, #3
    Rapid Story Development #3: Ten Questions Every Writer Needs to Ask Before They Hire a Consultant: Rapid Story Development, #3
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    Rapid Story Development #3: Ten Questions Every Writer Needs to Ask Before They Hire a Consultant: Rapid Story Development, #3

    By Jeff Lyons

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    The reality of being an author today means that you can't do it all alone. The writing, designing, editing, publishing, and marketing of a book is no longer a one-man or one-woman show. Authors, if they want to put their best professional face forward, must now build a publishing team and rely on third party consultants to help them realize their dreams of publishing gold. But, most authors are not familiar with the challenges, pitfalls, and complexities of hiring third party consultants. This e-book distills the top ten questions every author needs to ask before they take the leap into third party hiring. It's not rocket science, but it's also not for the timid. Rapid Story Development: Ten Questions Every Writer Needs to Ask Before They Hire a Consultant will take some of the guesswork out of hiring competent help, and assist you in building your power-publishing team.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStorygeeks Press
    Release dateJul 20, 2018
    ISBN9781732601208
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      Rapid Story Development #3 - Jeff Lyons

      Rapid Story Development #3

      RAPID STORY DEVELOPMENT #3

      TEN QUESTIONS EVERY WRITER NEEDS TO ASK BEFORE THEY HIRE A CONSULTANT

      JEFF LYONS

      Storygeeks Press

      Rapid Story Development: Ten Questions Every Writer Needs to Ask Before They Hire a Consultant

      Copyright © 2018 by Jeff Lyons

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval without permission in writing from the author.

      ISBN: 978-1-7326012-1-5 (e-book)

      Cover art by Jeff Lyons

      Interior design by Jeff Lyons

      Web: www.jefflyonsbooks.com

      Give feedback on the book at:

      feedback@storygeekspress.com

      First Edition

      Printed in the U.S.A

      GET YOUR FREE COPY

      RAPID STORY DEVELOPMENT #1: COMMERCIAL PACE IN FICTION AND CREATIVE NONFICTION

      AVAILABLE ONLINE AT ALL MAJOR BOOKSELLERS

      DEDICATION

      This is for loyal readers past, present, and future.

      Because without you, what’s the point?

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      The author would like to thank the following individuals for their support, help, encouragement, patience, infinite patience, faith, trust, belief, handouts, generosity, and small petty crimes undertaken to promote the success of this book.

      • Charlene DeLong and David Allan—thank you for being trusted beta readers, editors, and telling me the truth.

      ALSO BY JEFF LYONS

      FICTION

      Jack Be Dead: Revelation (bk #1)

      13 Minutes

      Terminus Station

      The Stain (coming)

      NONFICTION

      Anatomy of a Premise Line: How to Use Story and Premise Development for Writing Success

      Rapid Story Development: How to Use the Enneagram-Story Connection to Become a Master Storyteller

      Rapid Story Development: The Storyteller’s Toolbox Volume One

      The Story-Subplot Connection: How to Develop Subplots for Novelists and Screenwriters (coming)

      RAPID STORY DEVELOPMENT SERIES

      #1: Commercial Pace in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction

      #2: Bust the Top Ten Creative Writing Myths to Become a Better Writer

      #3: Ten Questions Every Writer Needs to Ask Before They Hire a Consultant

      #4: Teams and Ensembles: How to Write Stories with Large Casts

      #5: The Moral Premise–How to Build a Bulletproof Narrative Engine for Any Story

      #6: Seven Steps to Busting Writer’s Block Forever

      CONTENTS

      What Am I Getting Myself Into?

      Five Questions to Ask the Consultant

      Five Questions to Ask Yourself

      Epilogue

      Also by Jeff Lyons

      About the Author

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