Welcome to the site for authors. This is the site to keep informed and to learn how to promote your book to the best selling list.
Getting Started
Quick Start: What to do first:
- Submit your story to: story@wakeuplive.net The story and all co-author contact information must be submitted within thirty (30) days after applying to be included in the program.
- After submitting your story, you should receive a reply from the editors in 72 business hours. If you have not received a reply, please resubmit your story or contact the office.
- This unique experience is “On the Job Training” so, to get maximum benefit, all co-authors are responsible to stay in touch throughout the marketing training process. Please white list rita@wakeuplive.net
and
story@wakeuplive.net to receive co-author updates for the program. The marketing training calls are the first Thursday of every month.
Writing tips and guidelines:
Most of us are writers in some form or fashion. Sometimes we all need a little help getting started. So, the editorial office has put together helpful hints to help you put your story onto paper.
Focus:
Remember, your essay is part of a book that gives people instruction, hope, and motivation. It’s alright to tell your story, but make sure you give it significance.
- What does your story demonstrate to others?
- What was your life like before you “woke up?”
- What types of feelings and things did you struggle with?
- Why should it give them hope?
- What is life like now?
- How are you different?
- How have you influenced others?
- Why should they take new energy from reading it? (You can leave that decision to the reader, but it often helps if you can suggest the significance of your narrative.)
Ask yourself: "What do I want the reader to do?" Answer the question, and then, keep that thought uppermost in your mind as you write. Your message should inspire, direct, inform or otherwise enable the reader to do something which you want them to do, believe, know or become. If you don't want anything from them, why should they read your essay?
Style:
If you write in an honest, personal voice, you’ll write well. Don’t try to impose a "bookish" vocabulary or tone onto your writing. You are unique and the fact that you’ve been asked to submit a selection to one of the best selling "Wake Up . . . Live the Life You Love" books means that you have something to say. Just say it, and you’ll be fine. Please avoid writing a commercial for your business instead of a story or a lesson.
Length:
Your submission needs to be under 1,200 words. It is best if you keep it around 1,000 words.
Format:
Make sure you send your submission in Word Format (.doc) or a Rich Text Format (rtf).
Identification:
Please use the following example. Our editors need all contact information in case of questions. If you wish, you can include special credentials. Please let our editors know what information you wish to have published when you submit your co-author information sheet. If no information is specified your name on the application, your e-mail address or your web address will be your only information in our author index or in the book.
Telephone: 214-555-5555
Web site: www.leeslots.com
E-mail: lee@greybeard.net
Submitting: Please submit your story ready to be published to story@wakeuplive.net. You will receive a response from our editorial office within 72 hours. If you do not receive a response, please call (270) 753-5225. Along with your story, please include the co-author information sheet attached including a five line biographical summary, five line public contact information for the author index, a business or life tip, full contact information for our office and shipping address for your books. Please “white list” story@wakeuplive.net to receive e-mail contact information from the editorial office. By submitting your story, you acknowledge copyright to your material and give Wake Up...Live the Life You Love the permission to print and distribute your material. Materials will be included in the book as submitted. Any style edit or variation will be at the discretion of Wake Up...Live the Life You Love. The co-author retains copyright to all submitted materials. The story and any information to be included in the book are to be submitted within thirty days from the application date.
Why do we ask you to submit your chapter in just thirty days? Because experience tells us that, once you commit to being a co-author, the sooner you act, the more sincere, directed and effective your chapter will be. |
