| Title | : | Productivity For Indie Authors: A Book About Doing Less And Making More (Self Publishing Pathway To Published 1) |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 295 |
| Publication | : | Published May 16, 2017 |
"Your book has changed how I look at EVERYthing. I'm realizing how hard I've been searching for an answer to what hasn't been working for me, not just in writing & publishing, but in how I manage my professional life, in general. This is the first morning in decades that I woke up feeling calm and unhurried. That's not hyperbole. I've spent most of my professional life feeling rushed, as if I were seeking something that was eluding me. Your book provided the key. Thank you!" EM
I started my self publishing adventure long before Kindle was even a twinkle in Amazon's eye, on a photocopier and armed with a long-armed stapler. My books had to be short in those days, because they wouldn't stay closed if I tried to fold too many pages.
Amazingly, I still publish short books. Lots of them.
As a fellow indie author and self-publisher I know well the pressures that can prevent your publishing dreams taking full shape. The daily demands, and propensity to procrastinate, the insecurity - all conspiring to keep you one step behind your break-through.
Sometimes it feels like you are chasing your own tail. We know, as self-publishers, that there is a lot more to this gig than just writing. It can become overwhelming.
I started asking how I could better run my business to free me to do just the things I loved and felt called to do.
I wanted to create a watertight streamlined system that facilitated massive growth without killing me and destroying my wife and kids in the process. I now only have to work a few hours a week to keep my self publishing business running and flourishing - I’m free to write and create as I please.
This book contains the tried and tested keys that took me from a struggling and overwhelmed indie author, to a six-figure publishing business that virtually runs on auto-pilot.
Most productivity books center on teaching how to do more. This is a book all about doing less!
Trash your busy-ness and build a knockout self-publishing business that works for you, instead of you working for it.
ABOUT THE David Lee Martin is a successful self-publishing author, who runs a healthy six-figure publishing business using the very keys and concepts he shares in this book. He is known for his transparency and ability to communicate with honesty concepts and practical pathways to rock your own publishing business and take it to the next level.
Productivity For Indie Authors: A Book About Doing Less And Making More (Self Publishing Pathway To Published 1) Reviews
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Ehhhh ... no.
Not worth the read for the kind of writer I want to be, the kind of publisher I want to be, and the kind of person I want to be. :P I'm just never gonna hire other people to write my books because I am a writer at heart (the author claims to be too but ...???), and if I had to give up writing to be an author, well, I would shoot myself repeatedly in the head with a Nerf gun but so many times that the repetitive light bludgeoning would cause insanity.
The author has one or two good points, but overall, this book, his methods, and the convoluted style of the text are not for me. -
Even the cover is a rip off.
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3.5 stars
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Another author recommended this book in a group. Some of the information here, you'll have seen before. Martin's presentation starts with motivation though. In fact, that's the first 40% of the book. If you don't need motivation, you should at least skim those pages for key points, specifically the "One Thing" discussion. That's important to the rest of the book. There are some very useful nuggets here.
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I really enjoyed this holistic take on productivity for authors. It covers quite a lot in quite a short bit of space. The only real negative for me was the emphasis on saving time by hiring other people to do the writing for you. That's too high a price for me to pay, and I hate the idea of it for fiction writers, period. Everything else though is great.
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Basically, this book boils down to: do less. Some tasks won’t give you a return that’s worth the time they take. Eliminate, automate, or delegate these.
It’s repeated a lot. Do less. Eliminate, automate, delegate.
The author doesn’t even write his own books. He says outright that he delegates outlining, writing, editing, formatting, cover creation, ad creation, setting up for publication, announcing launches on social media, and creating emails for his subscribers. I’m not sure what he DOES do. He doesn’t even read his own books.
“Most of the fiction books I publish, I no longer even need to read. I know they will hit the mark. My writer hands the finished manuscript to me, I hand it to my editor for a one-sweep proof and edit, they hand back their polished version, and I publish.”
So, basically, his business model as an author is to not actually be an author. I wonder if he even wrote THIS book.
I gave the book 2 stars because there were a few good tidbits that stand on their own, such as “Habit removes the need for discipline.”
But mostly, the book is fluff with little substance. He says, “Maybe you already have quality blog content that could be repurposed with a little thought and effort into a book.” That’s exactly what this book feels like (but replace “quality” with “hasty” or “so-so”). -
This is a total rip-off. I sincerely suspect most reviews are not real. As the author is versed in all kinds of tricks to sell lots of books that he doesn't even write, I guess this must be another one of those. The only good advice in his (?) book (?) is that you have to eliminate useless time-consuming things in your life. He mentioned wasting time reading bad courses. I know where you should begin... This book of 295 pages is really only maximum a 100 pages. The rest is empty space. I mean this literally. And from the 100 pages left I think at least half are shallow repeats of a useless mantra. DON'T BUY THIS !!!
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Un libro que empieza bien, se vuelve regulero y termina mal. Hay algunos buenos consejos y prácticas motivadoras a lo largo del libro, pero todo eso queda en nada cuando una de las prácticas que examina es contratar a otros escritores para que escriban tu libro. Lo siento, pero eso no va conmigo, por mucho que el autor lo justifique. Suerte que lo compré en la promoción de lanzamiento; si hubiese pagado su precio actual, me sentiría estafado.
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Picked this up through Kindle Lending Library. It's okay but reads a bit like a magazine article. There's a lot of rah-rah and some ideas for further thought. Good if you want encouragement on the general direction of productivity but I didn't find the specifics as useful as could be. YMMV. It's a very fast read, though (it's only 20K words, and it took me about an hour overall because of the format and style) so it's worth checking out if you want some general ideas.
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Great principles for more than indie authors.
This is an extensive cover of the subject of productivity written in an easy style.
The principles proposed here can be applied to virtually any project where the creator makes the main thing the main thing.
It would not be easy to apply everything, but the effort will doubtless produce the result of 'doing less for more' which is the stated aim of the book. -
Most of the ideas were great. I've been putting off getting a PA or VA, however, there were some suggestions as to things which could be done by a paid service that I want to retain personal control over--like actually writing the book. I know it's working for authors like James Patterson, but the writing is what I enjoy most about the work.
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Great Resource & A Quick Read
What I appreciate aside from the content is the author sharing examples and links. An unexpected bonus. Highly recommended for Indie Authors building their business platform. -
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