New Book Helps Mental Health Professionals Get Published

Oct. 22, 2012 - PRLog -- WOODLAND HILLS, CALIFORNIA: Therapists, grab your notepads because this just published book is for you. It's called THE THERAPIST WRITER: Helping Mental Health Professionals Get Published (Timberlake Press, 2012). There are plenty of books on writing available, but this is the first mainstream book on writing aimed just at mental health professionals. It's full of examples and hints and tips therapists will identify with. , full of examples therapists will identify with.    THERAPIST WRITER:

“Getting a book published is the quickest way for a mental health professional (or anyone in any profession) to become known as an expert. I did it. Others have done it. You can do it," says author Sylvia Cary, LMFT, herself a published author and licensed psychotherapist.

What’s in The Therapist Writer…

* What Therapists Need to Know About Publishing

* Why Getting Published is Good for Business

* Start Building Your “Author Platform” Now

* Special Issues for Therapist Writers (Copyright to Confidentiality)

* Legal Issues (Copyrights to Trademarks)

* Nail Your Niche and Find a Book in It

* Who’s Your Audience and Where Do They Hang Out?

* The Basic Publishing Options (and What to Avoid)

* When Self-Publishing is the Best Choice

* How to Become Your Own “Indie” Publisher

* Ebook Mania and How to Cash In

* Marketing Like Mad A-Z for Therapist Writers

According to Marti Olsen Laney, Psy.D. and author of the best-selling The Introvert Advantage who wrote the foreword to THE THERAPIST WRITER, "Finally, a step-by-step guide for therapists to make their book idea into a completed manuscript.”  

Sylvia Cary, LMFT, a licensed psychotherapist in the Los Angeles area, is the author of five books and for over a decade has had a “book-doctor” business focused on helping other mental health professionals get published. “Getting a book published is good for business — no matter what business you're in,” Cary says.

Available NOW at Amazon.com. Available SOON on Kindle and BarnesandNoble.com.  Timberlake Press, P.O. Box 129, Woodland Hills, CA 91365. $17.95, 216 pages, ISBN: 978-09828847-9-9. www.TheTherapistWriter.WordPress.com; www.TimberlakePress.com.