This month, I’m providing a writer’s technology tip-a-day (along with other posts) to help you in your writing goals.
Today’s tip: Use technology to make a best seller.
How many of you have been turned down cold by a publisher submitting the book you want to write? More than a few and we have entire courses on “dealing with rejection.” Appropriate, for the most part, as much writing out there could stand to use a little improvement.
But, there are always diamonds in the rough.
Take, for example, The 4-Hour Workweek hitting number 1 on the New Your Times best seller list.
The book was “turned down by 13 of 14 editors” which is not surprising, considering that only 5% of the 200,000 books published in the US “ever sell more than 5,000 copies.”
The quotes, of course, from The Blog of Tim Ferriss, the author of the book.
It’s not just small talk. This really happened.
What helped turn great writing into a best seller: Using technology to create a phenomenon.
The full story is in “How Does a Bestseller Happen? A Case Study in Hitting #1 on the New York Times.”
Yes, the writing counts. But technology, according to Tim, can help the marketing.
Your technology channels can help make your book a best seller.
Scot
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