Get ready to write your book: 5 tips on becoming an author

My new book arrived on my doorstep today: “Writing Tools for the College Admissions Essay.”

If you are counting, that makes 21 books with my name on the cover as editor or author. But it is only with the last eight, published by Little, Brown, that I have identified myself as an author. Since 2006, more than a half million of my books have found their way into print. This includes digital books, audiobooks and translations into eight languages.

I am not as productive as Stephen King, who has written a good book on writing, but eight books in fewer than 20 years seems like a good run.

What is the secret of productivity? (I am thinking more and more about that question as I get ready to teach in a new Poynter program this June on supporting the work of aspiring book authors.)

I don’t want to leave you in suspense. So here are a few ideas to launch your new writing career.

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