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Are You Ready to Fall Forward to Become an OMG Awesome Author?

Calling ALL Authors …
Are You Ready to Fall Forward to Becoming an OMG Awesome Author?

Fall is coming … are you ready to embrace Author Smarts by starting a new habit for you and your book to close out the year? Author Success is calling to you.

What are your author and publishing expectations as this year enters its final phase? Have you thought about them? Have you written them down? Start a new habit for you and your book to close out the year with success as you wrap up the final months of the year.


Don’t wait to January 1 … the month that resolutions are create, chewed on, and usually spit out. Either they don’t work. They are rejected. Or it’s easier to do the same thing you’ve always being doing.

Change it.

How about something different? Such as:

1. Launching a series and a writing career.
2. Having true best-seller potential.
3. Revising and repurposing a limp book and relaunching a “new baby.”
4. Revamping your branding and business look.
5. Creating a live event to connect face-to-face with your fans.
6. Creating an online event to reach across the cyber skies.
7. Delivering a series of webinars to provide useful information.
8. New swag to goose up you and your book … or your consulting or other services and programs you provide.
9. Generating a way to become newsworthy.
10. Producing a “consistency” plan to build followers, connect and engage them.

Yup, this is the perfect time to think about renewal … ahead of the crowd. That way, you re-energize YOU, your BOOK, and your THOUGHTS about going forward. The result: the year ends on the plus side in so many ways.

So … dear authors … What are you going to do to move it from a so-so to OMG … why didn’t I do this before?

 


Dr. Judith Briles is the award-winning and bestselling author of 49 books and calls Colorado home. When she’s not in the kitchen or in the garden, she’s working with clients as The Book Shepherd, a book and publishing consulting and project management firm that works with authors at all stages of their book to create and publish a book they never regret! She’s the founder of the first Authors’ Hall of Fame exclusively dedicated to ensuring the legacy of authors connected in some way with Colorado. She’s also the Director of San Francisco chapter of the Women’s National Book Association. 

Judith’s books have been translated into 17 countries with over 1,000,000 copies sold! They have been featured in over 2,000 radio and TV shows including repeat appearances on CNN, CNBC, and Oprah. She has worked with over 1,500 authors and created 500 plus bestsellers. Print publications include Newsweek, People, Time, The Wall Street Journal and … The National Enquirer! Her popular podcast, AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing is dedicated to authors and writers and their success and is ranked in the top ten in four categories on GoodPods.

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