Wednesday, October 6, 2021

BOOK REVIEW: BOOK PROPOSALS THAT SELL

 

BOOK REVIEW:  BOOK PROPOSALS THAT $ELL

“Book Proposals That $ell” by Terry Whalin is a practical guide and handbook for authors who plan on writing a book or already hold a manuscript of their book and want to get published by a large publishing house.  If you’re writing your first book, but don't know where to start, “Book Proposals That $ell,” is for you. With step-by-step instructions, this guide will teach you how to write a winning book proposal--and get your book published.
Terry Whalin, an author and book editor, released a new revised edition of his “Book Proposals That $ell”.  He guides aspiring authors through the maze of national Publishing Houses.  Successful selling of a well drafted manuscript ensures the author future royalties and a well-crafted product to be proud of.  

What will the author get from the book publishing industry?
(1) Sales and royalty of the book.  (2) An official document called an ISBN number which is a number that unifies the production of a book and its legitimacy.  (3) Portability of the ISBN number to other publishers for an easy publishing and printing.  (4) A book produced and printed in a high class format since it is done through professional book layout and design procedure.  (5) The books is stored in the Library of Congress using the ISBN number.  (6) Have the book released and sold in major book stores.

In the Age of Amazon anyone can self-publish a book. But a self-published book mostly languishes in obscurity.

Whalin takes the reader of this guide book through the concept that a published book is a profitable business venture for the Publishing House. 

A proposed or written manuscript has to be pitched to, and evaluated by, a professional literary agent or an acquisition book editor with a track record in the publishing business.  Next, an acquisition editor needs to be sold upon, to advocate the manuscript before the Business Board of the reputable Publishing House.  The Business Board consists of publishing executives, senior editors who are known for their exceptional expertise in the publishing field, (who may be editors of prestigious magazines or editors of different books); book marketing and book-selling experts.

In order to convince the board of the publishing house to offer a contract, the author must demonstrate understanding and willingness to be a partner in marketing and show a potential of  a wide public readership audience who will buy the book.

Whalin’s guide book for successful book proposals includes every detail - all information on how to find a literary agent, or where to meet and how to pitch to a publisher’s acquisition editor.  It includes his 21 secrets for successful book proposal based on his own many years of experience as an author and book acquisition editor.

Whalin’s book is a how-to guide that shows you what to do and explains why you should do it. It’s your personal roadmap to getting published by a large publishing house like Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Morgan James, etc.

This guide includes an actual sample of a winning book proposal contributed by Michael Hyatt, the former CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers.  Just studying the  instructions chapter by Mr. Hyatt is well worth studying Whalin’s present 2021 complete revised hand book.

I studied Whalin’s new book and expanded my writing and publishing world understanding. 
If you want to get your book published by a large publishing house, this is the guide for you!

Saturday, September 25, 2021

BETWEEN BOOK WRITING AND PUBLISHING

 

BETWEEN WRITING TO PUBLISHING A BOOK

You’re a talented writer.
You are the author of the promising great American novel.  Or you have a best-selling book manuscript as a show and tell non-fiction lessons learned from your previous company. Or the U.S Congress.

You need now two things in order to break out on the literary stage.

First you want your novel or non-fiction to be counted.  Yes you want your brain child to be indexed by the U.S. Library of Congress. Said otherwise your book needs an ISBN number.

Second you want your future best-selling book, on the display shelves of every bookstore in the America.

Where do you go?
You go to a well-established well known book publishing house that has the  production tools, business relations with printers, wholesale nation-wide books distributors, and experienced networks of book marketing, and book selling working relationships.


The first thing – to be counted – you can do yourself.  But It’s costly in time and money.  The second thing you must get a publishing house accept your opus.  Or else, privately published book copies will stack up in your garage.

It happened to me.

You need a publishing house to accept your manuscript under contract and take care of myriad expensive details that involve book production, marketing, and sales  You can’t go it alone if you aspire to sell your book in private bookstores or national chain bookstores.  You want your book sold on the Barnes & Noble shelves and on Costco, Sam’s Club and Walmart.  Proudly.

The preliminary step is to connect with a literary agent or a book-acquisition editor who will pay attention to your manuscript.
You need to have a “
Book Proposal”.  You need to sell your book proposal onto one of those professionals.  They are part of the publishing industry.

 
Fortunately a new guide book is now released to guide you through this maze.

Terry Whalin, an experienced acquisition editor in established publishing houses has an updated guide-book that leads you through the business labyrinth of publishing houses.

Read and study this guide book.  It will save you aggravation in cost and time.  You can find it on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Here is what to look for.



I wish I read and studied this book before I went to publish my first book.

Ask me any question.

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

MANAGE YOUR BEING AWARENESS


MANAGE YOUR BEING AWARENESS
How do you manifest? By being that which you want to manifest.  By being aware, that you are aware.
It is your awareness of being that manifests.  Your awareness manifests all things that you are aware of.
Life always gives a person that which the person is aware of himself or herself.
Your awareness of your being delivers to you the quality or attribute that you claim for yourself.
Very few people ask, 'What is it, about me, that knows this flow of thoughts, feelings, and perceptions? With what am I aware of my experience?'
All people have the experience of being aware, but relatively few people are aware that they are aware. 
Awareness knows of its own being in us.  Our self-awareness is our fundamental and most intimate experience.
So how is that being aware manifests itself?
First a mental state of general amnesty towards other people is very important.  We have to release others from all condemnation so that we will be free to rise to any higher level that is necessary in order to be fully aware of our being.
Life always gives us – human beings – that which we - each person- give him or herself.

This is the requirement of manifestation: 
Every person’s conception of their own self is being their reward.
The consciousness of any human being is his Universe. 
There is no latent awareness. There is no subconscious or unconscious awareness.
We are aware of our thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions.

Man is the measure of all things: 
Humans see their own Universe. 
Humans gauge their own time.

Note to the wise:
Your advice on "Time Management" is a fallacy:
Time has it's own pace.
We mismanage our priorities and blame lack of time.
Get rid of the "To Do List"
Instead, have a primal being aware list and manage your personal "To Be Aware List".

Monday, August 19, 2019

Sunday, August 11, 2019

THE IRON PRINCIPLE OF THE LAW OF ATTRACTION AND WHY IT WORKS


THE IRON PRINCIPLE OF THE LAW OF ATTRACTION
AND WHY IT WORKS
Hold your vision front and center.
Watch it manifest.
Do not mess up the process.
The Zen has its own time line.

~ Mandy Lender, MD
The Zen of Attraction & Manifestation



Why it works?
You cannot talk about anything for very long before it starts to replicate itself in your life experience. It is what makes you develop your pattern of truth.
"At first I wasn't sure and then I pondered it for a while. And once I gave it my attention, I began seeing evidence of it. And now that I believe - it manifests in my experience".
 ~ Esther Hicks

Monday, July 22, 2019

THE ATTRACTOME


THE ATTRACTOME
CONSTITUTIVE ATTRIBUTES
BY DR. MANDY LENDER
The Law of Attraction is a mindset that bridges the transition from the realm of thought design to empiric reality - manifestation.  To bring manifestation to completion, a skillset is required to facilitate the process. 
A mindset and a skill-set.
This essay discusses the constitutive attributes of the mindset of the Law of Attraction.  The skillset is described in my book “The Master Attractors”, (Morgan James Publishing, New York, 2013), under the chapter titled The Tool Box of the Master Attractors.
Before attempting the intellectual analysis and discussion let me posit this question:
Do you believe that the sun will rise tomorrow?
Whatever your answer is, pause to ponder: What makes you believe that you got the right answer?
We shall get back to the possible answers, later on.
The first attribute of the Attractome is that - the Law of Attraction is involuntarily and incessantly creating.  It creates all the time in the human mind. 
We humans always think; one way or another, good or bad thoughts, consciously or unconsciously, while we are awake or during our sleep while in the brain is in neuronal default mode.  We make ceaseless mental selections that manifest in our lives.  Value judgments for good or for bad do not play a role in the process of manifesting.
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The second attribute is that the Law of Attraction is mentally compelling and obsessive.  That is because we always think.  If you doubt that, try not to think for a moment.  The Law of Attraction is always co-creating and ceaselessly manifesting. 
The Law of Attraction is compelling people to act externally in alignment with their thoughts, their intentions or fantasies.  Unless the person holds an opposing or a diversionary thought, they will end up (slowly or quickly) manifesting the thought in the reality of their life.  The process of manifestation is obsessive and compels the person into taking conducive actions to manifest their new reality.   The aligning actions are a skillset that accelerates the manifestation.  The new reality materializes even if they may not like what they conjured up in their mind.
In previous writings we explained why the Law of Attraction is self-serving and self-preserving.  In order to manifest that which is self-serving the Law of Attraction shifts into an “obsessive gear” and compels the thinker to perform in a fashion that is conducive to manifesting the obsessive intention or objective.
A minority of folks who harbor self-destructive thoughts – damage themselves.  They are also sometimes suicidal. 
Let us now explain the mechanism that accounts for the phenomenon of the Law of Attraction.  
The essence of the process is that a thought once sparked in the human mind, starts thinking about itself.   In due course, that thought spawns collateral thoughts.   We often call them associated thoughts, referred to commonly as “associations”.  Next, the new collateral associated thoughts spread throughout the mind as a ripple around the original thought.
The ripples of thoughts in the mind expand our consciousness to include the target idea that we wish to manifest in our external reality.  We become consciously aware of opportunities, resources, people, investments and circumstances that are conducive to the manifestation of the original intent or objective.  We meet the lovers; find the money, get the job, benefit from the right master-mind alliances, or acquire the desired piece of real-state.
Compare this mindset process to your use of an internet search engine.  You are interested in an item and you enter the name of the item into the search engine and press Enter.  Then, voila, the search engine returns to you thousands or millions of related pieces of information in a split moment, while you still type the item.  It does not matter to the search engine what you entered - an object’s name or a fantasy thought.  Both are energy signals to the search engine. 
The search engine is neutral.  It does not care and does not pass judgment on the item you asked for.  Better yet, the search engine does not care if what you search is “true” or “false”.  If you did not get what you want – you modify your search terms and try again.
When you get what you asked from the search engine, you receive it in the form of links leading you to your desired objective.  With the links to the information you can now assemble and manifest your objective.  You literally get a map with turn by turn directions to reach your destination, if that is a place that you asked for.  If you didn’t get want you want, you modify again your search term – you then keep searching – obsessively – until you get what you want.
By doing this we become co-creators of our new reality and the new reality starts to manifest and take shape around us.  Now that we think about “it”, (whatever “it” may be), we start to see and perceive evidence for it all around us.  When we perceive the factual conscious evidence for “it”, we start to believe that “it” is “truly” our empiric reality.
The Law of Attraction is a neurophysiologic mental phenomenon that matches our target seeking thoughts with the corresponding components of empiric reality - the reality that matches our original thought.
The mindset of the Law of Attraction is a higher state of awareness! 
If the thinker holds contradictory doubts about the desired outcome (this ‘new reality’), or changes the description of the objective in mid—process, their central nervous system enters a state of confusion and will not deliver the desired outcome until the objective is clearly defined.  Clarity of thoughts facilitates manifestation.
Thus, repeated thinking and vivid imagination of a desired (or undesired) situation  eventually compels and inevitably manifests in the external surrounding reality of the thinker. 
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The third attribute to consider is: The Law of Attraction is selfish.
You cannot stay neutral facing this last statement.  You have to agree or disagree at your own peril.  The Law of Attraction is selfish in that it acts in the manner it acts in order to preserve itself.
For example, we employ the Law of Attraction to fulfill our basic needs – food and shelter.  The Law of Attraction supports our survival needs.
You must maintain an open mind to internalize the statements above. 
Let me emphasize again that the Law of Attraction is selfish.  See, whatever the products of the Law of Attraction are – the preponderance of the results is almost always in favor of the original expected manifestation.   If the manifestation is delayed, it was delayed because the thinker harbored a doubt, or was confused, or lacked clarity while conceiving the desired outcome. 
Hence – the Law of Attraction is always right on the target it was given.
Since the preponderance of outcomes are in favor of the Law of Attraction by manifesting what was asked of it, then the Law of Attraction ends up as the winning party of a pair of binary choices - manifest or null.  On the long run folks who think and act in alignment with the Law of Attraction score more “wins” (manifesting their objective) than nulls. 
People, who serially manifested material objects, are then materially wealthier than other average people. 
Alternately, for people whose manifested objective was an intangible notion then are greater in wisdom, or rich in psychic income. 
When peoples’ goal is health and longevity, they learn and find ways and methods to attract health and cure and live a longer life span than other average people.
The self-preserving bias of the Law of Attraction is discernible as the manifesting people live longer, invent, co-create more, add value and propagate the intelligence of the Law of Attraction as a by-product during their successful lifetime. 
Compelling evidence is demonstrated in the lives of the teachers of the Law of Attraction, most of whom made great fortunes by propagating the ultimate awareness and skills of the Law of Attraction.
This self-preserving nature of the Law of Attraction explains why it was already noted by early generations three millennia ago.
Once you are in agreement with, and internalized the explanation above you also realize how the Law of Attraction is selfish and self-preserving by favoring those folks who understand and live in alignment with its framework. 
Importantly, the Law of Attraction provides evolutionary advantage to those persons who innately understand how to benefit from it.
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The fourth attribute is - the Law of Attraction creates and manifests into our reality with minimal or without time delay. 
If there seems to be a time lapse from mental conception to empiric manifestation, it is caused by our mental doubts and disbelief. 
Quoting William Shakespeare: “Our doubts are traitors that make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”  (Measure for Measure).
Note that the personal feeling of “delay” is due to the relativity of our perception of time.  It is a result of the constrained human capacity to sense time. 
The Universe is always on time.  There is no “delay” in the Universe.  A “delay” of 100 years is a tiny blip in the chronology of our green and blue planet Earth, or in the chronology of the Universe.
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The fifth attribute - the process of creation and manifestation is effortless. 
Indeed and in theory - manifestation is effortless. 
If manifestation comes about with difficulties and requires efforts, it is because we harbor mixed feeling, antagonistic thoughts, doubts towards the goal or the desired outcome.  The doubts and mixed feelings exert the slowing brakes on the process of assembling of the components that are required for manifestation.
We use sometimes the term “faith-based” in connection with the Law of Attraction.   The reason is that the Law of Attraction operates flawlessly and seamlessly when the thinker has complete confidence in the processes and therefore does not interfere with the process of manifestation.
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Going back to the initial question – do you believe that the sun will rise tomorrow?  Are you sure it will rise tomorrow?  If you are sure then you can count with certainty on the Law of Attraction to deliver.  
In other words – for best results – do not second guess the Law of Attraction.  Just trust it to do what it does best – it manifests.
The mindset of the Law of Attraction has five attributes to keep in mind.  All five require open-mindedness.  All five require mental clarity and willingness to think different.  All five attributes are constitutive of the framework of the Law of Attraction.

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