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PUBLISH WITH MARKETING IN MIND

March 2, 2012 by Patricia Brooks

Publish with Marketing in Mind – Patricia L. Brooks, author, consultant

Brooks Goldmann Publishing, LLC  www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

Publishing is like Sailing!

Take the Helm – Brand

Chart your Course – Differentiation

Hoist your Best Sails – Creativity

Launch a Smooth Voyage – Diversify

Ask the Right Questions

Who are my Audiences?     What is my Purpose?

When Should I Launch?      Where will I Compete?

YES Editors/Proofreaders as Partners

Mature the Work

Cultivate a must Read

Shape it and Improve it

Position in your Genre

YES Cover Design/Title – – Hottest Sell Points

Show a Succinct Title

Dress it up – Clear and Curious

Make it Count – Get attention

Brand it – Pedigree

YES Back Cover Matters

Short Testimonials – No bragging

Photo/Message – Challenge/Invite

Pitch what you Know – Inspire

Endorsements – Benefits are Paramount

YES Interior Layout Legend is Critical to Success

Influence the Buying Decision with the following:

Show your Message

Establish Expectations

Delight the Reader

Printing Particulars

YES Compliance is Critical – get it right the first time

Research is Required – Shop ‘till you Drop

Budgeting is Best

YES Try the Traditional Route

You too will do Marketing!

Agents – Prestige – Advances – Rights

Contracts – Control issues – Timelines – Changes

YES Self-Publishing Perspective is an option

In Control – Earn more per book

Process much quicker – All Costs to You

Consultant/Book Shepherd can be the way to go

YES Marketing You and your Book! is the goal

Social Media – Network – Online – Websites – Blogs

Promotion – Bookmarks, Postcards, Posters

Media – Print/Broadcast – Publicity

YES Launch Lessons Learned are vital

30 Second Commercial

Market Locally then Globally

Distribution – Delivery

Business Plan – Marketing Plan

HERE THEY ARE Some Suggested Reading

Writing Down the Bones – Natalie Goldberg

Your Life as Story – Tristine Rainer

The Right to Write – Julia Cameron

1001 Ways to Market Your Book – John Kremer

THANK YOU FOR READING THIS AND GOOD LUCK

Patricia L. Brooks

[email protected] 480-250-5556

 

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EDITING PATH TO PUBLISHING – Patricia L. Brooks, the author’s partner

April 20, 2010 by Patricia Brooks

?  WRITE STUFF-Editing Path to Publishing

Patricia L. Brooks, MAOM-Speaker, Author, Publishing Consultant, Faculty

Brooks Goldmann Publishing Co. LLC

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

? “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

? Why do you want to write?

? Why do you want to publish?

 

REVISIONS are the Charm!

? CHECK – Do you inform, entertain or engage?

? CHECK – Do allow your voice to shine?

? CHECK – Is there flow to your work with a story line?

 

STAGES OF EDITING or Bust!

? Developmental stage – Organization and Structure

? Content Stage – Shape it up – needs/purpose

? Copy Stage – proof – grammar – punctuation

? “Book Shepherd” – collaborator – Ghostwriter – peer reviewer?

 

EDITORS make great partners!

? Bring the “eagle  eye” to MATURE the work

? Honor compelling, CLEAR copy

? Cultivate a MUST read book

? Craft your copy to stand as ART

 

The “HOTTEST” Selling Point

? TITLE – Succinct to Sell – 7 to 10 words – SIZZLE

? Dress it up – CLEAR and Curious – 6 feet away

? Make it Count – be Memorable  – COLORS

? What is your book about?  HOOK

 

?  The BACK Cover is Tops!

? Short testimonials – NO Bragging

? GENRE – Price – 10 Seconds to Sell

? Benefits – BUY on emotion – advocacy

? Your photo and Message – READ

 

?  INTERIOR Design and Layout

? Creatively ENHANCE your work

? Deliver a DELIGHT to Read

? Photos and illustrations  – HARMONY

? Play by the RULES – Guidelines

 

?  PRINTING Particulars

? Digital Printing  vs. Offset Printing

? Physical vs. Electronic books – or both

? Size, page count, paper weight, colors

? Soft cover or hard cover or both

 

?  MARKETING – You and Your Book – The Plan

? Social networking – Facebook, Twitter, Linked In

? Websites  and blogs, online articles and media

? Bookmarks – Biz cards – Fact sheet

? Posters and Banners for events – General Media

 

?  BOOK LAUNCH – You and Them

? Warehousing and storage – wholesale to retail

? Distributors  – to the wholesaler or bookstores

? Homework -Reputation – Strategy – Cost effective

? Catalogs – online – your inventory

 

?  TRADITIONAL – Publishing Plan

? Book Proposals for niche markets

? Agents to the publisher  – Prestige – Some advances

? Marketing and media control – Author’s Platform

? Rights – contracts – attorney

 

?  SELF-PUBLISHING – Independent Perspective

? In Control – keep RIGHTS

? Make MORE per book – your expenses

? Process much Quicker – out to market timely

? COSTS for book production/marketing

 

?  CHOICES – Physical – Electronic or Both

? FAD or profound change?  Unique Opportunities

? COMBINATION – print and electronic – FUTURE

? EMOTION – comfort – target new realities

? FREE – e-book trends – Marketing shifts in the industry

 

?  To E-BOOK or not to E-book

? GAME changing force  – book store closings

? Direct-to-Customer MODEL

? MORE good and bad books get published

? SPLITS – for author/publisher partnerships

 

?  Suggested Favorite READING for Writers

? Writing Down the Bones – Natalie Goldberg

? Your Life as Story – Tristine Rainer

? The Power to Write – Caroline Joy Adams

? The Right to Write – Julia Cameron

? Lessons of a Lifetime of Writing – David Morrell

 

This coupon offers you one FREE hour of independent-publishing consultation and a “coffee break” on us at the coffee house of your choice – now or before the end of 2010.

Please call to make your date at 480-250-5556 or email [email protected]  for more information see our blog or website

?www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com  https://brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

?Patricia L. Brooks, President           Earl L. Goldmann, Manager

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REFLECTIONS on our Published Books of 2009

January 5, 2010 by Patricia Brooks

REFLECTIONS on our Published Books of 2009         

Patricia L. Brooks, MAOM

speaker, author, publishing consultant

Brooks Goldmann Publishing, LLC

www.blog.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

THE INITIAL CONTACT:

Meeting our authors for the first time is usually serendipity through my knowing another woman writer or a contact from one of my speaking engagements.  Some come from our website and many have my card when they call, given to them by a friend or found in a coffee shop.  We immediately start talking about writing, usually sitting in a coffee shop.  Our relationship is cemented.

Some of our potential clients share mutual acquaintances with us and know our coming together was meant to be.  They seek us to help them independently publish their book.  I write this reflection of 2009 as part of a greater plan for both their books and our time together.  We help writers in various ways and are eager to give back to the community. 

THE FIRST MEETING:

Our first meeting with the budding author is to discuss taking their manuscript or notes (if a ghostwriter is needed) through the independent publishing process and launch their work as a tangible book to enhance their goals and purpose.   Most writers ask me to help in the post-marketing of the book too with a book review and media release.  While being available to them early on with a peer review and commitments in our proposal and contract, we pledge to our author to continue with them long after the initial launch. 

While answering the writer’s inquiries into what needs to be done to make this all happen, and their determination to get the book out, we accept the challenge.  To look at all the opportunities available in the many facets of publishing, we make this experience function exceptionally well by setting up a team and selecting the best vendors (ghostwriter, editor, designer, printer to name a few) for the client.  All plans are in writing, including the proposal and contract with us and the contacted vendor.

THE INTERVIEW:

The writer relates their creative side by sharing their experiences as a professional or novice writer.  They elaborate for us how they opted for a traditional career in life “to earn a living”, but now want to be a writer first, and “to have a life” as a published author.  Using a more avant-garde approach to their creative life today, they relate to us over and over again that they write first for themselves and then for the reader.

We talk in our first meeting about their childhood and young adult encounters with writing so I can have a full picture of their writing life and commitment, as well as how writing has sustained them.  Most of these writers are eager for us to give feedback on their manuscript (first 30 pages or first three chapters) before we embark on a contract.  Since our paths could easily have crossed earlier in our writing life, our souls have some stories that resonate with each other in all of the manuscripts we select.  I enjoy the peer review process and give a full report to them after reading their submission.

THE DECISION:

When asked to be their publishing consultant and to read their manuscripts or chapters as a peer reviewer prior to the proofreader, editor or designer, I am honored and accept immediately (my partner husband also does peer reviews).  Although I am flattered about the peer review, I know it will be one of the most difficult aspects of our relationship and I do not take it lightly.  My feedback must be honest and sensitive.  Being the publishing consultant enlists my expertise, but to accommodate the author’s voice and honor their vision in a peer review I know I will be challenged. 

 In accepting the job of peer reviewer whole heartedly and with fierce abandon, I begin reading daily 10-15 pages each morning.  Doing the exercises and questions I prepare for myself will be part of my final report to the writer.  While opening my heart to the possibilities of their work and learning more about my new writer friend, I forge ahead enjoying each new day.

Although I realize as I proceed through their writing, which can be daunting due to unedited drafts, that their views and ideas are not necessarily mine I enhance my life with the read.  We are very selective about the types of books we publish, so I set aside an hour early each morning for this reading time.  My days are enriched because I view their work as a gift and value it greatly.

THE PROCESS:

My goal is to help another up-and-coming author. My objective is to take their work through the step-by-step process for a quality book and visualize the reader involved in this endeavor as well.  Transforming their life as the author did only a few years earlier, the reader will be forever changed from the experience of the book.  Good and honest work in the peer review is part of our strategy for success.

Possibly spanning the course of several years, the author may have ended suffering and challenging experiences with a wonderful turn of events that tells a story of inspiration with ideas for the reader’s life too.  A book well worth reading has to play a role in saving the life of the author and/or protagonist in some way while allowing the reader to hope they too can witness a transformation.

Most authors are bold and courageous in their telling of their stories and are not afraid of the risk if it means helping another soul on a spiritual search.   The self-help and memoir genres are alive and well.  Most people today are on a spiritual quest.  I realize in my morning readings that the books we review and publish are similar creatures in many ways.  Being completely involved in the manuscripts in doing the peer reviews, I see them as an opportunity for me too and take the review to fruition in a positive manner.

THE INSIGHT:

None of us, me, my husband or the authors we work with, takes rising above the “ashes of life” lightly or looks past the obvious to realize a happy life.  Reading and critiquing our authors’ manuscripts or chapters is a responsibility taken to heart.  It is the sweetness of the process and a critical area on the successful journey of what we can offer the author.

Just as the author’s philosophy shines in their book, it also chooses to thrive in the challenges and opportunities of launching a book to market.  Our authors look to us for intuitive and creative ways to find solutions to the questions they pose for themselves in their writing plan.  Their positive attitude is paramount when we accept them into our program and take responsibility for making the book launch happen for them.  We share a common belief with our authors that there is something larger than ourselves involved in the creative and writing process, and that creativity is as much a part of healing as a pen is to paper. 

We published three wonderful books in 2009 in the genres of self-help, spirituality and new fiction.  They are written by creative and artistic souls who love their art and admire other’s art too.  They come to see their life’s worth sharing in writing as well as in art.

As stated throughout many of the books we publish, the path of life is sometimes simple; it just isn’t always that easy to achieve. We help you break-out and launch your first book or another book quickly and easily.

THE FEEDBACK:

Our peer reviews captivate an approach to faith and love, courage and the science to saving the voice of the writer’s work.  Most of our authors share their mind, body and spirit experiences in a mix with creativity and a love for the written word.  This philosophy and attitude carries forward. 

Having experienced our latest author’s work for many weeks, this philosophy is enhanced, and I have learned a lot.  All of the books (listed below) have pushed me to places I have neglected overtime.  It has been a wonderful journey.  Thank you, Mia, Cay and Kiki for an enlightened 2009.

It has been a privilege to meet Mia, Cay and Kiki as writer clients.  We have become friends through our working together and I encourage them to get their message out to the public with appointments on Internet Radio and online social networking, speaking to women who are in need of their message and blogging to the general population who in these difficult times needs to be part of the psychology of hope.

THE APPRECIATION:

We are pleased to be a part of three more important and inspiring books.  Each one of these women truly touches a chord for anyone who needs to know life can turn for the better with a slight change of attitude, a chance with faith or the courage to try new things.  Cay and Mia’s books are especially for the “baby boomer” generation that feels so many times to be in a poor light.  All three books show us how to appreciate our lives just the way they are and to be grateful for what we have and give back.

All too often, this “baby boomer” generation of mine finds itself lost and confused when in fact we continue to make a tremendous impact on every aspect of our society.  These three women author’s books should be part of Wellness Community and Life Long Learning programs for early retirees and third career people who need to take stock in just what they are worth and where they can go from here. 

My husband and business partner Earl, and I, would especially like these three beautiful books  The Secrets of the 100 Golden Keys, Remnants-ready for new life and Healing and the Creative Response to be compulsory reading for the many displaced “middle aged” workers who feel they have nowhere to turn and no solutions for a life interrupted.  Whether you are a “baby boomer” considering a new career or a “young-at-heart” senior person seeking answers and spiritual truths about yourself and your life, these books stand out like the artwork featured in them.

Happy New Year and enjoy the reading. 

Recommending this year’s books launched fall 2009:

Healing and the Creative Response   Cay Randall May        www.healingcreativeresponse.com

Remnants-ready for new life             Kiki Swanson              www.kikiswansonbooks.com

The Secrets of the 100 Golden Keys  Mia Pratt                    www.100goldenkeys.com

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PATH TO PUBLISHING AND MARKETING – Patricia L. Brooks, Publishing Consultant

October 14, 2009 by Patricia Brooks

Path to Publishing/Marketing – 480-250-5556

FREE ONE HOUR CONSULTATION

Patricia L. Brooks, MAOM – Speaker, Author, Publishing Consultant

Brooks Goldmann Publishing Co. LLC [email protected]

?  Ernest Hemingway

? “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

 

?  Why do you want to write?

?  Why do you want to publish?

 

?  Editors make great Partners

? Bring the “eagle  eye” to mature the work

? Honor compelling, clear copy

? Cultivate a must read book

? Shape it and improve it for the reader

 

?  The “Hottest” Selling Point

? Your title Succinct to Sell – 7 to 10 words

? Dress it up – Clear and Curious

? Make it Count and be Memorable

 

?  The Back Cover Counts

? Short testimonials – no Bragging

? Your photo and Message

? Genre – Price – 10 Seconds to Sell

 

?  The Cover Creation and Design

? 7 seconds to Success from 6 feet way

? Influences the Buying Decision

? Emotion/entertainment/WIIIFM/optimistic

 

?  Interior Design and Layout

? Creatively enhance your work

? Deliver a delight to Read

? Photos and illustrations  – harmony

 

?  Printing Particulars

? Digital printing  vs. Offset Printing

? Book size, page count, paper weight, color

? Soft cover or hard cover or both

 

?  Marketing You and Your Book – PLAN

? Social networking online – Facebook, Twitter, Linked In

? Websites  and blogs – Internet Media

? Bookmarks – Business cards – Fact sheet

? Posters and Banners – events – Media

 

?  Book Launch – You and Them

? Warehousing and storage – wholesale to retail

? Distributors  – to the wholesaler or bookstores

? Homework – Reputation – Strategy – Cost effective

 

?  Traditional Publishing Plan

? Book Proposals for niche markets

? Agents to the publisher  – Prestige – Advances, Marketing

? Media control, Rights – contracts – attorney

 

?  Self Publishing/Independent Perspective

? In control, make more per book, process much quicker

? Costs for book production/marketing

? Partner: Publishing Consultant/Book Shepherd

 

?  Suggested Reading

? Writing Down the Bones – Natalie Goldberg

? Your Life as Story – Tristine Rainer

? The Power to Write – Caroline Joy Adams

? The Right to Write – Julia Cameron

? Lessons of a Lifetime of Writing – David Morrell

 

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Brook Goldmann Publishing launches Healing and the Creative Response

September 28, 2009 by Patricia Brooks

 

Contact:          Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company, LLC

Address:          7970 E. Camelback Rd., 710, Scottsdale, AZ  85251

Cell                  (480-250-5556)

Email:              [email protected] or [email protected]

Web Site:        www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

Blog:               https://brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

 

Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company, LLC

 launches Healing and the Creative Response

 

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, September 28, 2009 –To find healing in our creativity is the ultimate satisfaction on our quest for peace and harmony.  That was accomplished this past week by author Rev. Cay Randall May, PhD as Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company, LLC of Scottsdale, AZ enhanced the launch of her high quality self-help production Healing and the Creative Response.  This new book de-mystifies natural healing

 

            In today’s political firestorm over health care alternative forms of medicine are overlooked.   “Healing and the Creative Response:  Four Key Steps Shared by Healers and Artists explains how to use prayer, laying-on-of-hands, Therapeutic Touch, Reiki and Energy Medicine to promote well-being.  In addition to reducing the emotional and physical distress of illness and injury, Randall-May asserts that applying the steps in her book can enhance self-expression through a process she calls the Creative Response.

           

Randall-May, who represents prayer healing and medical intuition on the national Council for Healing and serves on the American Board of Scientific Medical Intuition, is a faculty member of the Energy Medicine University where she teaches natural approaches to healing.  Readers who sample this richly illustrated book and CD online by visiting www.HealingCreativeResponse.com will be opened to the possibility of achieving greater well-being while engaging more than the usual senses. 

 

As a published author herself, Scottsdale business woman, Patricia L. Brooks, MAOM of Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company, LLC endorses this book on what she considers “the ultimate subject for all of us.”  Patricia knows the author is a spiritual soul having worked with her on the publishing process.  Brooks also contributed her own experience to its content.  She assures us the work’s examples are thought provoking.    

 

The Brooks Goldmann Publishing website www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com provides more information on this publication, as well as detailed information on their publishing services available to you.  Patricia can help you as your “book shepherd” while you travel the writing and publishing maze.  You can also visit her many posts on writing and publishing on their blog https://brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

 

Contact Patricia at 480-250-5556 or [email protected] to set a date for your FREE one hour consultation and coffee meeting.  Begin to take the path of your writing passion.

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REVISION ROAD TO PUBLISHING

May 5, 2009 by Patricia Brooks

WRITE ON – Revision Road to Publishing

Patricia L. Brooks, MAOM

Speaker, author, book shepherd

 

Brooks Goldmann Publishing Co., LLC

P. L. Brooks Seminars, LLC

 

[email protected]

cell  480-250-5556

Ernest Hemingway – “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

 

  Why do you want to write?            Why do you want to publish?

 

 

Three Revisions may be the Charm!

 

Do you inform, entertain or engage?

Do you have a clear focus?

Do you write for your readers?

 

Ghostwriters are not “Scary”

 

Allow you to be an author if not a writer

Fill in for what you might lack

Take a vow of “perpetual” silence

 

 

 Developmental Editing Stage

 

Partner out of the starting gate

Honor compelling, clear  copy

Cultivate a must read boo

 

Content Editing Stage

 

Shape it for your  Needs  and Purpose

Size it for the Reader

Improve your Voice structure, Flow, Story line

 

 

           Copy Editing Stage

 

Welcome the “Eagle Eye” to mature the book

Approve a proof of grammar, punctuation

Use mostly power, active verbs

 

The “Hottest” Selling Point

 

Allow your book title to Sizzle

Make your title Succinct – 7 to 10 words

Dress it up with Clarity and Curiosity

 

Peer Reviews

 

 Someone you trust with open eyes

 Not usually friends or family

 One willing to listen with an open heart

 

 The Back Cover Counts

 

Short testimonials

Your photo and your message

Advocacy and charity

 

 

The Cover Design

 

 Seven seconds to Success from Six feet

 Influences the Buying Decision

 Competing with no national Borders

 

 Photography and Illustrations

 

  Creatively enhance your book

  Pictures are worth another 1000 words

  Stand out in the crowd of books

 

  Interior Design

 

 Show off more than Word Processing

 Make it easy on the Eyes 

 Deliver a delight to Read

 

 Printing Particulars

 

  Digital printing  vs. Offset Printing 

  Book size, pages count, paper weight, color

 Soft cover vs. hard cover or both

 

Book Launch

 

 Warehousing and storage – where and why

 Distributors can increase sales  and are  costly

 Online , retail, specialty, events

 

 Traditional Publishing Planning

 

Book Proposals for niche markets

Agents to the publisher (80-90%)

Advances, Marketing

 

Self Publishing/Independent Perspective

 

You are in control, make more per book

Go through the process much quicker

Costs for book production

 

 You are now in Business!

 

Organization is Key

Objectives (steps, destination), Strategies (how)

E books and Audio books

 

 Suggested Reading

 

Writing Down the Bones – Natalie Goldberg

On Writing: a memoir of the craft  – Stephen King

Your Life as Story – Tristine Rainer

The Power to Write – Caroline Joy Adams

The Right to Write – Julia Cameron

Lessons of a Lifetime of Writing – David Morrell

 

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING – QUESTIONS?

 

 

 

 

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The Publishing Process – what it is and what it takes

February 22, 2009 by Patricia Brooks

 

 

 

The purpose of this proposal is to share the benefits of self-publishing with you and to give you answers to questions about why self-publishing is the vehicle for your publishing needs and your manuscript. 

 

This proposal will show you how we will work together to develop your manuscript to a finished product, just the way you envisioned it, and take it through the marketing stage if that is also your desire. 

 

This proposal will show you how we will provide you all the possible services you need with one-stop service, and how we will stay with you until you are ready to go it alone.

 

Patricia L. Brooks, MAOM

Earl L. Goldmann

BROOKS GOLDMANN PUBLISHING, LLC

[email protected]

480-250-5556 cell    

www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

 

INTRODUCTION TO OUR SERVICES what we will do for you!

 

BROOKS GOLDMANN PUBLISHING COMPANY, LLC

The author’s answer to guidance and consultation in a self-publishing “partnership”……

Consultation, Coaching, Idea generation, Production, Publishing, Sales and Marketing expertise at your disposal in a win/win relationship……

Answers at various levels and related fees to meet your needs on your timeline……

 

LEVEL ONE CONSULTATION

Being there for you!

 

THE FOLLOWING INTRODUCTORY CONSULTATION SERVICES CAN BE AVAILABLE to you with guidance by

Patricia L. Brooks, president/founder

Earl L. Goldmann, manager/partner:

        I.            Consultation – to guide you in making the best possible decisions necessary to take your completed manuscript to fruition by taking you through the self-publishing process in a clear and concise manner

      II.            Management  – to assist you with what you have in an idea, research and writings by helping you put it all into an outline that will become your book by helping you to conceptualize the theme and purpose of the book

    III.            Coaching – to mentor you in structuring your thoughts and passion into a saleable manuscript ready for a “peer” review and editing while giving you insight into what needs to happen to make it unique and different

    IV.            Idea Generation – to brainstorm with you for more and better ideas for your marketing plan and publicity campaign that are the critical 60% of your future success as an author

      V.            Ghost Writing – to offer a partnership to your writing and to put your thoughts on paper by bringing your work to the forefront of your dreams and an opportunity to be a force in your genre

 

LEVEL TWO flaunting your style!

 

THE FOLLOWING PRODUCTION SERVICES CAN BE PROVIDED to you by our many vendors in a “bundled” package offering to prepare your manuscript:

A.      Photography – enhance your book with a professional in the book photography industry

B.      Art Design – develop your book cover as the “point-of-purchase” with a professional who will design it with your ideas and their vision to attract the public and send the right message

C.      Graphic Design – augment your book so the size and type style of the letters praise your work set the tone of voice

D.     Editing – cultivate a “must read” book with a professional editor that has improved the voice, structure, flow and story line to your liking

E.      Proofreading – mature the book with proper grammar and punctuation

F.       Peer Review – a look at the book with “fresh eyes” and an open heart

 

LEVEL THREE Taking care of details!

 

THE FOLLOWING PRINTING RELATED SERVICES CAN BE PROVIDED to you through the publishing entity of the company for the completion of your manuscript:

1)      Typesetting – proper formatting, spell check and minor corrections

2)      Conversion to PDF format to be sent to printing source

3)      Copywriting – submission of necessary paperwork

4)      ISBN Numbers – submission of necessary paperwork

5)      Barcode – submission of necessary paperwork

6)      Printing – research on best prices and highest quality

7)      Distribution – research and suggestions

 

SAMPLE QUESTIONS

To be considered now: 

v  What size, in dimensions, are the manuscript and the anticipated book? 

v  Is it to be hard cover or soft cover or both; will it be an e-book later? 

v  How many estimated pages now and in the final book? 

v  What paper type will be used, cream, white, acid based, 50#, 60#? 

v  What additional inside graphics, illustrations, charts, photos are required?

v  What type of cover design, photos, artwork, and colors will be used?

 

 

LEVEL FOUR helping to let you shine!

 

THE FOLLOWING MULTI-LAYERED MARKETING SERVICES CAN BE PROVIDED to you through our marketing/PR division:

a.      Successful Value Selling – research and guidance to take advantage of opportunities on websites, newsletters, blogs, E-magazines, catalogs and special promotions to create need

b.      ‘Marketing Plans Made Magical’ – consultation and guidance to develop and write a 12 month/10 part plan of magic to differentiate your book and platform’s branding

c.       Publicity Campaign – consultation and guidance to develop and write a 3-6-9 or 12 month campaign for the growth of your platform and maintenance of your image

d.      Press Kits – consultation on the necessities of a packet that will get attention with the media outlets and help you to be successful in your efforts to obtain critical exposure

e.      Positioning Consultation – overview of how to approach your marketplace, target your market, find your niche and set your goals to “hook” your audience in your genre

 

Please consider accepting this proposal of our company and services.  Please review it entirely and then ask yourself the following SEVEN questions.  If you answer yes to all or most of them, we should proceed to build a working relationship.

 

We look forward to hearing from you and to discussing the possibilities of a partnership to “launch your book out” into the marketplace.

 

Regards,

 

Patricia L. Brooks, MAOM

Earl L. Goldmann

480-250-5556 cell

 

 [email protected]  

www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

 

 

 

PUBLISHING “PARTNERSHIP” questions to ask at this time:

·         Do you want to be in “partnership” with the publishing process?

·         Do you want to learn the publishing process?

·         Do you want to go through the process of book publishing quickly?

·         Do you want to have control over your intellectual property?

·         Are you able to look at your book and you as a business?

·         Are you willing to commit to the marketing efforts needed to launch your book and promote yourself?

·         Are you willing to learn more about marketing and PR?

 

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PR – BGP launches Gratitude a Verb – a spiritual tool/meditation reader

January 6, 2009 by Patricia Brooks

 

 

Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company, LLC

 launches Gratitude a Verb for a spiritual connection

 

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, January 5, 2009 –A spiritual connection is the ultimate need satisfied on our quest for peace and harmony.  That was accomplished this past week as Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company, LLC of Scottsdale, AZ, launched another high quality self-help production with Gratitude a Verb, by Michael L. Lyding. 

 

“This 12-step recovery meditation reader makes a difference for our time in its practical view of spirituality.” says Brooks.  The author, Michael L. Lyding, of Grateful not Smug, and now Gratitude a Verb, www.improvespiritualconnection.com shares his mission for the book as “a spiritual tool to help improve your conscious contact with God.”   He is praised by his peers for “proving that meditation can be easy and exciting.”

 

As a published author herself, Scottsdale business woman, Patricia L. Brooks, president and founder of Brooks Goldmann Publishing, endorses this book on what she considers “the ultimate subject for all of us.”  She knows the author is a sincere and spiritual soul having worked with him in the publishing process of this book.  Patricia assures us the meditations are well written and thought provoking and were revised with love after being written with hope.    

 

The Brooks Goldmann Publishing website www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com provides more information on this publication, as well as detailed information on the publishing services available to you.  She, and her husband and partner, Earl Goldmann, can help you as your “book shepherds” while you travel the writing and publishing maze to launch your book.  You can also visit her many posts on writing and publishing on their blog https://brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

 

Contact Patricia at 480-250-5556 or [email protected] to set a date for your FREE one hour consultation and coffee meeting.  Begin to take the path of your writing passion on the journey to Prepare to be an Author guided by her perspective to Launch Live your work. 

 

Patricia L. Brooks is also president/founder of the Scottsdale Society of Women Writers, a member of the AZ Authors Association and the AZ Book Publishers Association.

 

She is owner, with her partner/husband, of P. L. Seminars, LLC (www.plbrooks.com) and Brooks Goldmann Publishing Co., LLC, (www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com).  She is associate faculty at Arizona State University, has resided in Arizona for over 30 years and been active in the business community for all of that time. 

 

Patricia holds a Masters Degree in Organizational Management, the Advanced Toastmasters designation and has been named to “Who’s Who of America’s Teachers.

She can be reached at [email protected] or 480-250-5556.  

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