It’s time to let you in on a secret…my name is Michelle Jackson and I love writing smutty romance novels. They are one of my favorite ways to make passive income and I’m excited to grow this income this year. I also write non-fiction and am excited to write books to help readers and followers work through different aspects of personal finance, networking, and online business creation. Today I decided to share a new challenge that I’m starting to help amazing creators get out of their way, grow their brands, and make money.
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Time to Write Your First Book!
Today’s episode is all about getting listeners to FINALLY write their first book. In the past year I launched my course “Make Money with Ebooks” and I discovered that there were a couple of misconceptions and mindset blocks keeping would be authors from sharing their creativity and wisdom with the world.
So, I decided to create a short challenge to help future authors actually BECOME future authors. Need some fun romances to read? Check out my Autumn Stone romances here! Available on Amazon/Kindle.
The “Write Your First Book” challenge was created to break through whatever it is that’s keeping you from writing your book.
Who is this challenge for?
- The person who has been talking about writing a book…and still hasn’t
- The person who has been WORKING on their book…for 5 years. You keep going back and working on it to make it perfect.
- And, finally, the person who doesn’t think that anyone will read their book.
I am empathetic to your concerns because I had them too. Then, I began speaking with friends of mine who published books both traditionally and self-published. And, I paid particular attention to the stories about self-publishing because I discovered a common thread and observed a couple of couple of things that those of you trying to decide between self-publishing or continue to wait for a traditional publishing deal.
- Self-published authors were able to significantly grow their brand and their platforms just as effectively as traditionally published authors. They were able to:
- Pitch for conference speaking gigs/panels
- Be positioned as an authority on the topic that they wrote on
- Make passive income
- Entertain people with their fiction or non-fiction work
- Basically, self-published authors were able to do everything that a traditionally published author was able to do.
- I’ve never read a book that solved a problem, entertained me, or inspired me and thought…”Hmmm, was this traditionally published or self-published?” And, I ask you? Do you spend time wondering about that? Probably not.
- Self-published authors were able to have complete creative control over their work.
- Self-published authors were able to publish as many works as they wanted to…without waiting on other people to say “yes” to their book ideas.
- The process is not as complicated as most people think.
Do NOT Wait to Self-Publish Your Book This Year
We are waiting:
- To learn from you
- Be entertained
- For you to shine in your expertise
The “Write Your First Book” Challenge
Has been created to get you past whatever concerns that are keeping you from publishing. It’s a 5 day challenge specifically focused on mindset.
No, you won’t be writing your first book during that week. Instead, you will be getting out of your way so that you can actually get started on your writing journey.
How the Challenge Works
- Welcome to the Challenge and Webinar Details
- Day #1 Validate Your Book Idea (Video)
- Day #2 How to Write Your First Book Faster (Video)
- Day #3 Developing a Winning Writer’s Mindset (Video)
- Day #4 Finishing Your Book (Video)
- Day #5 Marketing Your First Book (video)
- Day #6-Bonus
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Thinking About Starting a Blog?
I love blogging! It has been an incredible experience, transformed my life, and connected me with a ton of amazing people. Blogging is a pretty cheap activity and I recommend hosting your blog with Siteground. Many bloggers have begun leaving HostGator and BlueHost and moving to Siteground. Myself included! Read why I’m leaving HostGator and BlueHost (I have 2 blogs one on each hosting platform) and moving to Siteground. If you’re a new blogger Siteground will cost around $3.95 a month (depending on the size of your audience). They have great customer service and tutorials on how to host your new WordPress blog on Siteground
Online Business Resources
If you’re thinking about starting an online business, the resources below are a great way to get started.
- The Ultimate List of FinCon Community Products
- Courses
- Books
- Swag
- Make Money with Ebooks–There is more than one way to make money with your writing skills. I’ve created this course to help inspire, educate, and support writers who are sitting on a book idea…and are afraid to write it. This is YOUR year.Make Money with Ebooks is offered at three different tiers to meet different student needs.
- Self-Study
- Group Program-Includes access to the closed Facebook Group and twice a month live office hours.
- VIP Program-Includes access to the closed Facebook Group, twice a month live office hours, and 2 meetings with Michelle to work on book related strategies, goals, etc.
- $10KVA–Are you curious about becoming a Virtual Assistant as a side-hustle or a potential full-time gig? My friend Kayla Sloan is killing it as a Virtual Assistant and schooling other entrepreneurs in how to become a VA that earns on average $10KVA. This course is what I recommend as the first part of creating a virtual assistant business.
- Making Sense of Affiliate Income-If you’re looking to make affiliate income with your blog, Michelle Schroeder-Gardner’s course is the course that I recommend. She makes well over a $1 Million a year blogging and the biggest chunk of her income comes from affiliate marketing.
- IMark Interactive–Grayson Bell helps me with all of my website related tech issues and he is THE go to guy for WordPress related tech in the several different blogging niches (all the Personal Finance peeps work with him).
- Elite Blog Academy-Many bloggers have gone through this course and I consider this course the “Granddaddy” of all blogging courses. It’s not cheap, but in additional to getting all of the resources that are key to building an incredible blog, you’re also become a part of an insanely supportive (and huge) community of bloggers. Many of whom are making crazy money.
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