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I just got through reading 18 pages of a presentation by Terry Burns to the Glorietta Writers Conference about the economy and publishing.

You can read it all yourself here. But I’ll mention some of the things that struck me.

Bob Sacks of Publishing Executive says to stay calm, we’ve seen this before, been there, we’ll get through this.”The magazine industry, the advertising industry and the newly emerging digital information industry are not going to go away. All three will survive, get stronger and be better at what they do. Your job is to stay calm, stick around and be there as they do. Panicked people generally make bad decisions, while calm people tend to be rational and capable of solving the problems on hand.”

Good point. But I wonder: have we really been through this? We now have a huge variable in place that the world has definitely not seen during past economic crises:

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I’m excited to be doing several Virtual Book Tours in the coming weeks, and I’d like to invite you to the first one.

If you’re a parent or educator, or have a child in your life you’d like to love and understand better … or you just want to know more about the many ways one can be smart, check out the upcoming Virtual Book Tour with Dr. Kathy Koch, author of How Am I Smart? A Parent’s Guide to Multiple intelligences. On the upcoming Virtual Book Tour (rescheduled from October 13), we’ll be talking about the eight multiple intelligences and how to apply it to helping children succeed in school.

As usual with these Virtual Book Tours, you get to ask Dr. Kathy Koch your question, and we’ll answer submitted questions on the live teleseminar. You’ll be able to listen to via your phone (normal long-distance charges apply) or via webcast (no long-distance charges).

All the details are here. Even if you don’t have a question, sign up so you’ll get the call-in info and the link to the replay, if you can’t make the live call.

This book has helped my daughter’s self-esteem as we identified her strengths, and helped her to value her friends’ strengths as well. It’s been fun to have a “new language” to use when talking about our uniqueness.

When you sign up, you’ll get access to a sample chapter of How Am I Smart? A Parent’s Guide to Multiple Intelligences, plus a link to another interview I did with Dr. Kathy. Good stuff!

A friend of mine, a successful author, told me her blogger.com blog was suddenly taken down because they thought she was somehow spamming.

Suddenly, her web presence is yanked away. She has to jump through hoops she barely understands, and MAYBE Google (who owns blogger.com) will decide in her favor. Maybe not.

All her old posts are gone, maybe forever.

This is not uncommon at all. What happens is that if Google’s robot (not a human) detects just ONE complaint, it will shut your blog down. (Get this: Google shut down it’s OWN blog a few months ago! Not for long, you can be sure, but it happened!)

It’s a shame to have a blog shut down, because it’s so damaging, yet so easy to prevent.

Prevent it simply by

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Here’s a pop quiz for you:

How many ways can you think of to make your content (message) available to others?

(If you know the brainstorming technique I taught a few weeks ago, you can pull out a piece of paper and “cluster” your answers now. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, check out the Writing Secrets Revealed class to find out.)

Well, I wonder if you’ve thought of the one I cover in this week’s article.

It looks to be one of the easiest, and profitable, ways I’ve come across.

You’ll be hearing–and seeing–more about this very soon, because I plan to do this myself.

My friend and colleague Terry Whalin has been busy doing some terrific teleseminars I thought you would want to know about.

Tonight, he’s doing one on book proposals. There will be a replay, if you get this late, so head on over to www.askterrywhalin.com.

There you can ask your question, listen to the live call or replay, and download a great new Ebook he just created, his Book Proposals
That Sell Extra Special Report. I’ve seen it, and it’s a goldmine of
valuable info on book proposals, writing–you name it.

It’s also well worth the $40 to access the interviews he did with 8 top publishing professionals. Why? Because you’d never in a million years have access to these people yourself, and I doubt they’d be as honest as they were with Terry. Each editor or publisher gave a slightly different perspective on what they look for in a book proposal. Check it out.

If you’re interested in writing Christian fiction or writing for children, you can catch the replay of the call Terry did last week with editor and author Andy McGuire at www.askandymcguire.com. Listen to the questions Andy answered from the teleseminar–it’s very enlightening.

Yesterday I was talking with a publishing executive, who was expressing her nervousness over many of the changes in publishing.

Many publishers are laying off top executives.

Just today came news of a big change in leadership at HarperCollins, one of the major publishers.

Brian Murray will take over as company president from Jane Friedman. Murray said in the announcement, “I am looking forward to working with my colleagues to invest in and grow our publishing businesses around the world at a time when digital technologies are creating new opportunities to bring authors and readers together.”

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I hope you enjoyed your weekend!

Just a reminder that you’re invited to my first “Resource Roundup for Authors” teleseminar.

It’s tomorrow–Tuesday, May 27, at 5 p.m.Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern.

You may ask your question and signup here:
http://www.askyourbookpublishingcoach1.com

Here’s what I plan to cover:

• a cool tool that will help you be more productive (no cost)
• how to start your book or information product, in such a way that it will sell
• access to experts on book proposals, including a guest appearance by literary agent and book proposal expert Terry Whalin. Got a book proposal question? Make sure you ask it!
• how to start a website and/or blog: software to use, and other resources to help you get your site up quickly, easily, inexpensively, and effectively–and manage it yourself! (You really don’t need a webmaster with these tools.)
• Cathy Perkins, “the WordPress Wizard” who customized and showed me how to optimize my my blogs (and taught me how to manage it myself), will be a special guest. If you have a question about blogging, ask it, and she’ll do what she can to answer it on Tuesday. (Plus you’ll find out how to get your questions answered on a weekly basis.)
• how to set things up so you can sell online

I will be answering questions pertaining to these issues, so ask yours now if you have one.

Tomorrow I’ll remind you and send the call-in information (which you’ll get instantly if you sign up).

Please plan to attend the live call, which will be on Tuesday, 5 p.m. Pacific, 7 p.m. Central, 8 p.m. Eastern, okay?

There will be a replay if you miss the live call, but you have to sign up to get it. Please plan now when you’ll listen to the replay. And make sure you get your Resource Guide. There’s a bonus only available to those who know about it through the call and Resource Guide. I’d hate for you to miss it!

It’s been awhile since I’ve conducted a teleseminar, and I’m itching to do one.

People have been asking me many questions, on a wide range of topics.

However, most of them fell under the topics of …

• how do I get started?
• how do I manage the technical stuff, like creating a website and setting up to sell on the Web?
• how do I best get published? (including, how do I get a publisher to notice me and/or decide which self-publisher won’t rip me off?)
• how do I market/promote/develop a following?

I’ve got great news! (more…)

I want you to know about this now, because there’s a special bonus for the first 200 people who sign up, there are only a limited number of openings for this training and I want to make sure you at least have the opportunity to consider it.

QUESTION: “What best-selling authors and info marketers such as David Bach, Jack Canfield, Donald Trump, Harvey Mackay…

…Joe Vitale, Loral Langemeier, Mark ictor Hansen, Marci Shimoff, Bob Allen and Joe Vitale all have in common?

ANSWER: They’ve all done “Virtual Book Tours” with Alex Mandossian.

Alex is a friend and colleague of mine, and on the evening of June 5th at 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern, I want you to join us for our live tele-training on the secret to selling more books and info products faster, better & easier.

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Turn up your speakers and click here:
This VIP Code Saves You $79: gabe1025
(Bonus for the first 200 registrants)
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When you think about how much time and effort it takes to write a book, it’s crazy to think about how little money you’ll earn (per book)…even if you get backing from a major publisher.

Alex will show you, step-by-step, how you too can crack the code to selling more books (and info products) through the leveraging power of the telephone.

You don’t even have to be famous to become a best-selling author!

All you need is a message, a mouth and a telephone and you’re golden!!

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->> Register, Even If You’re Busy <<-

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Look, even if you have a schedule conflict on June 5th, I want you to
register anyway because Alex told me that he’d make the replay to the
call available June 7th.

So you really have no excuse not to register. Here’s why to do it now:

• Over 2 live hours of tele-training -> Unlimited recorded access for life
• Unconditional money-back guarantee -> Multi-page Action Guide (PDF download)

Here’s the link one last time. Your VIP Discount Code is: gabe1025

Bonus tip: Dial-in 12 minutes early to introduce yourself to the hundreds of other Entrepreneurs who will also be on the call. Calling in early is a great way to et *free* promotion for your website or business. So get registered now, ok?

In my last post, I discussed a possible new direction in publishing in the wake of some recent events. I wanted to ask a veteran publishing professional what he thinks of what’s happened, because he’s been involved in a rather unique publishing program. 

I was all set to do a regular teleseminar for you, but:

a. my guest could not do it any evening this week and

b. some of the material is time-sensitive

SO …

I recorded the interview and you can listen to it by clicking below.

My teleseminar guest is Rick Frishman, who has been in publishing even
longer than I have, and is an author (of course) who’s actually been on Oprah. He’s
the founder of Planned Television Arts, and now publisher of a company that I’ve been observing with great interest for several years now, Morgan James Publishing.

Rick is the author of a brand-new book, Where’s Your Wow? 16 Ways to Make Your
Competitors Wish They Were You. You can catch the interview I had with him about that book on my podcast.

We talked about how Morgan James Publishing is modeling a new approach for nonfiction authors, and how the whole publishing industry may be following suit. Also about a way you can learn how to make your book a bestseller from the master of book marketing, Mark Victor Hansen, who has sold millions of Chicken Soup for the Soul books.

He’ll be revealing his secrets, along with others who will be at the Author 101 seminar at the end of May.

Please catch the audio of this interview now, and check out the links mentioned in
the interview (which I’ve conveniently posted below the audio). Rick has some invaluable goodies for you.

As you’ll hear in this interview, Rick Frishman has a passion for assisting authors
in getting their message out–a passion I share. Please listen and learn!

  (Click to listen now, or right-click “download MP3″ link to save and listen to at your convenience.)

Resources to Check Out:

AllAboutGettingPublished.com – 1-day seminar on May 29, 2008 for authors who want to learn how to write and market a book, with bestselling author Mark Victor Hansen and editors, publishers, literary agents

ChoosingYourBestsellingTitle.com – information on how to choose a title that sells your book in 4 seconds or less

Author101.com– writing and publishing resources, including Rick’s free million-dollar rolodex of agents, media people