Writerpreneur: The Lost Books Anthology (beta)

It's rare when your best bits of a book don't make the cut.

And this research proved the exception.

In the other three books of this series, I mentioned that this research process took over two years. And that there were any false starts.

But a pattern emerged from this process. I'd take it as far as I could and then would find myself writing a new book from further questions I had.

Then I wrapped up that first book (on publishing) by removing all the new material and putting into a new document. Then prettying up what I first had to make it read nice.

That second book (on copywriting) went along fine – until I got to its end and over-wrote it again.

So again, I separated out the new material.

This time it had the theme of a mystery of unravelling who was stopping authors from making enough income – and ended up simply being a nice book, and a course, but not long enough for a paperback. It ended up on a shelf of its own.

A third book was compiled from other texts I'd discovered were valuable to all writers, since these principles had been forgotten or neglected over the decades. A nice paperback on it's own – and I didn't have to over-write this one.

However, I was left with the original itch still in need of scratching.

So I began again. This was a new style, keeping a non-fiction narrative going in each chapter. The research went along fine, I found human examples of all the core basics I'd covered in the four books above. Plus, I found the real answer to that itching question. And cleaned it all up on editing. It also became a course.

Unfortunately, it was again too short for publishing as a paperback.

Two too-short books, both stylish and easy reading non-ficiton. Together, they were still too -short.

So I pulled up Dorothea Brande's classic, Becoming A Writer and – voila! - we had a decent length, filled with three highly valuable tomes, if each too short for printing. (And it's audiobook made it a course of its own.)

And this supplementary volume was born. Three books, three courses, one textbook.

You're welcome.

Here's now a way to answer all sorts of questions that are outside the three books already in this series. And I can get onto my next research, knowing that I've made all I know that's really valuable into four print-worthy volumes. Ones that will sell each other and more importantly give answers writers have been looking for well before self-publishing became a thing.

I'll leave you with this.

Good Hunting!