Andrea Susan Glass of WritersWay Establishes February as National “Write Your E-book” Month

PRLog (Press Release) - Feb 23, 2010 -
According to statistics, more than 84% of people say they want to write a book
 someday, yet merely 1% ever follow through on that goal. However, with the ease
 of publishing technology, anyone can rapidly get their book written and published-as
 an e-book.
Andrea Susan Glass, an award-winning ghostwriter and copyeditor of more than
 100 books and e-books, has declared February National Write Your E-book Month.
 "I want to show would-be authors how easily and quickly an e-book can be
 written and produced," says Glass. "Anyone who has an idea for a subject
 for a book can turn out an e-book in as little as one week."
E-books are essentially digital books that can be downloaded instantly. The
 buyer pays for the e-book, then receives an e-mail or goes to a website, where
 they click, and the e-book appears on the screen. Then they can read it, save
 it, or print it out.
Glass has worked with service professionals such as coaches, consultants, speakers,
 trainers, financial planners, realtors, healthcare professionals, and more taking
 their expertise and experience and turning it into various information products
 like books and e-books. What she finds that keeps most of these prospective
 authors from completing their books is lack of time.
"Everyone is so busy working, but they're trading their time for dollars,"
 says Glass. "If you charge $75/hour, you can only work so many hours, and
 then you max out your time and your income. What I like to show people is that
 with e-books, they can be selling 24/7 and receive passive income."
 Additionally, with the shrinking of the world through the Internet, an e-book
 author can reach a large audience with minimal effort.
To launch National Write Your E-book Month, Glass offers the following helpful
 tips to encourage wannabe e-book authors to overcome their objections of not
 enough time:
 1. Record your information into a digital recorder or some audio software.
 Then send it to a transcription service or a virtual assistant to create a written
 document.
 2. Hold a live class, give a talk, or conduct a teleclass and tape it.
 A one-hour class can provide approximately 20 pages of text. Send the tape to
 a transcriptionist to get a written document. "I once turned a 90-minute
 teleclass that was transcribed into a 50-page e-book in two days," says
 Glass.
 3. Hire a ghostwriter. When you just don't have the time, find someone
 compatible and competent to write your e-book for you. "I've interviewed
 people over the phone, met them at libraries and coffee shops, gathered everything
 they've ever written, or done the research from scratch," says Glass. "I
 can always find a way to get the knowledge out of their heads and onto the page
 so I can complete their e-book."
 4. Hire an editor. If you have the transcripts or you have a bunch of
 articles, blogs, or website copy, weave it all together and let a copyeditor
 clean it up. "I've received extremely clean copy that only took about one
 day to format into an e-book," says Glass, "and I've received a mish
 mash of ideas that I had to sort out and clean up, but the e-book emerged eventually."
 5. Have a coach or accountability buddy. "I get on Skype every Friday
 afternoon with my accountability buddy," says Glass. "We're both developing
 e-books and e-booklets, and other info-products, but we're also busy with our
 business. If we know we're going to talk, we make sure we get some work done
 on our product development." Glass acts as a coach and accountability partner
 for her clients, and they stay on track until their e-books are done.

 For more information on writing and producing e-books, contact Andrea Susan
 Glass, at andrea@writersway.com.
 To order a free report about producing and promoting info-products visit www.WritersWay.com.

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