Fail!

No one wants to fail. Some avoid failure as best as possible, forgoing its lessons. However, failure is not bad; it is necessary for success.

Rules for A Minimalist Writer

Being a minimalist writer is serious business. These are the rules you need to follow if you want to be a minimalist writer:

How Much I Really Write

If someone assumes that writing my books took a lot of time, I tell them the truth: It took me one hour a day, five days a week during six to eight months to complete one of my books.

First Rehearse, then Perform

„Rehearsals are where you can screw up and feel safe to experiment.“
Bruce Dickinson, What Does This Button Do? An Autobiography, 2017

Publishing Your Book #6: After Publishing

The day has come: your book has arrived at the stores and you have received your free copies. Now, there are three things for you to do:

Publishing Your Book #5: You’re Finished When It’s Published

Between the time you submit the final manuscript and the time that it’s published, some months may pass. My publisher, for example, needs half a year to organize and produce the book. But why does is take so long, you might ask, and what role do you play in the process?

Publishing Your Book #4: The Contract

Has your book project been accepted? Congratulations! Now the real work starts.

Publishing Your Book #3: Find a Publisher

Recently, I began looking for publishers for three different book projects myself (two book ideas and a finished manuscript). Nowadays, it’s both easier and harder to find a publisher: the Internet makes it easier, because every publisher has their own website; the Internet makes it harder, because there is so much, sometimes confusing information to filter through. Here are some strategies in order to find suitable publishers.

Publishing Your Book #2: What’s Your Unique Selling Point?

You may think that the „unique selling point“ is just so much marketing rhetoric and doesn’t do justice to your academic goals? Maybe that’s true, but certainly not for most publishers: marketing is their main goal; hence they need you to tell them why they should publish your manuscript. Because if it’s important to them, it needs to be important to you too. The question is, how do you show them that your manuscript is worthy of publication. Or put differently, why should they take the financial risk to produce and market your book?

Publishing Your Book #1: Why Publishing with a Publisher is a Good Idea

In a time when it is possible to produce, publish and distribute books yourself, why should you make the effort to find a publisher? Why not do it the easier way, knowing that your book will definitely see the light of day? There are some reasons you should consider before embarking on a solo publishing trip.