[image: Get Your Book Out of the Someday Box in 2014]These were the most viewed posts on the Someday Box blog in 2014.
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Getting Your Book Out of the “Someday” Box by Finding Why
[image: Getting Your Book Out of the Someday Box]The greatest challenge to getting your book out of the “someday” box isn’t writing, it’s starting. It helps if you spend some time finding why; if you clearly establish your real reason for writing a business book.
- Are you writing a book to make money? Don’t. Virtually all books sell less than 500 copies. Ever. Even if you make $12 a copy (which is pretty good), you just made $6,000.
- To establish yourself as an expert. Good reason. If you literally wrote the book, you’ll be recognized as an authority on your subject.
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Book Excerpt from Getting Your Book Out of the Someday Box
Wednesdays we’ll be posting excerpts of Joel’s writings. Today’s excerpt is from Getting Your Book Out of the Someday Box.
Connect with an accountability mentor. You have friends and professional acquaintances who’d be delighted if you asked them to help you get your book done. A couple points on choosing them:
1. They need to believe. Somebody once started the lie that having someone tell you you’ll never succeed would inspire you to prove them wrong. Wrong. You do not need a troll, you need a rabid cheerleader who’ll make you believe when you forget to.
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Call Me Pollyanna (Guest Post by John “Pollyanna” O’Leary)
I met John on a series of phone calls hosted by our mutual friend Trevor Gay, who, like us, is mad as a hatter. John is working on a book, and like many of you, he’s taking forever.
[image: photo http://www.sxc.hu/photo/80376 by Jeff Prieb http://www.sxc.hu/profile/ctechs” width=”222″ height=”157″ class=”alignright size-full wp-image-3196]Here on Someday Box Joel often lays out the case for self-publishing your book—instead of chasing the REALLY BIG PUBLISHING DEAL. I would have to agree that there are benefits to self-publishing. But based on my experiences as a writer (and author of the forthcoming book, Business Lessons From Rock) I believe it’s only fair that you should hear the other side of the argument. Let me take a moment to enumerate the advantages of pursuing a major publisher. There are many.
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Married to an Author
[image: Joel and Sue Canfield]I’m married to an author. I work with an author. In fact, many authors. In my work for Someday Box I’ve worked with a dozen authors or so this year. In my virtual assistant business I’ve worked with another dozen or so this past year. So I know quite a bit about authors.
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If you are married to an author, you know authors can have their quirks.
“Practical Advice to Help You Get the Job Done”
Stephanie Chandler, Author, Speaker and Publisher, reviewed the book, Getting Your Book Out of the Someday Box. Her review, as found in the book, follows: … more … ““Practical Advice to Help You Get the Job Done””