Author: Anne Hart
Publisher: ASJA Press
Keywords: genealogy, writing, syllabus, amp, template, marketing, guide, course, personal, histories, journalism, businesses, start
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2006-02-22
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0595386989
ISBN-13: 9780595386987

Here’s how to open your own genealogy, family history journalism, or personal history business. This includes a genealogy course template and instruction on how to start and operate a home-based business working with personal and oral histories, genealogy, family history, and life story writing. You also learn how to interview people, what questions to ask, and how to put together a business and/or a course or book on any aspect of genealogy around the world, journalism, writing, personal history, and life story writing. Start your own course using the genealogy course template to insp

Author: Anne Hart
Publisher: ASJA Press
Keywords: amp, trends, salable, feature, research, articles, magazines, health, medical, writing, popular, current
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2005-04-22
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0595351786
ISBN-13: 9780595351787

Here’s how to transform your interest in popular health topics such as gene hunters, medical trends, self-help, nutrition, current issues, or pets into writing salable feature articles for popular publications. Become a health-aware feature writer, journalist, editor, indexer, abstractor, proofreader, information broker, book packager, investigative reporter, pharmaceutical copywriter, or documentary video producer. Here are the skills you’ll need to transform your interest in popular science into writing health and medical feature and filler articles or columns for a wide variety of pu

Author: Anne Hart
Publisher: ASJA Press
Keywords: don, pay, market, writing, publicity, book, smarts, strategies, earn, free, social
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 2006-03-28
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0595392210
ISBN-13: 9780595392216

Empathy and social smarts help you earn free book publicity by connecting you with key people, media, schools, and the publications of nonprofit agencies. As a writer, you can promote your own book and earn free book publicity by connecting key people, media, and nonprofits’ newsletters with schools. Social intelligence used in book promotion is like a three-ring circus. Use empathy, that is people smarts, as a catalyst to bring together schools, nonprofit agencies, and authors. Observe, simplify, and offer commitment as charisma. Query editors of nonprofit publications. These nonprofi

Author: Anne Hart
Publisher: ASJA Press
Keywords: pay, market, writing, don, publicity, earn, free, book, ways
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2006-02-14
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0595385532
ISBN-13: 9780595385539

Don’t pay to promote, publicize, and market your book. The quickest ways to get free publicity for your book are to work at a writing camp (a boot camp for creative writing) and query a magazine editor to ask whether you can get a go-ahead to write an article titled, “How to Write a Syllabus for Teachinga Course In ____. (Fill in the topic of your how-to book). Use your credibility and experience to sell your books. Give three reasons why people should take you seriously and trust your credibility, commitment, and stability. Show honesty and charisma in your writing. Motivate readers by

Author: Anne Hart
Publisher: ASJA Press
Keywords: action, verbs, resume, writers, amp, travelers, students, editors, speakers, position, communicators, yourself, first, journalists, educators
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2004-05-12
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0595319114
ISBN-13: 9780595319114

Position yourself with action verbs. Write resumes using action verbs for career advancement. Use action verbs for writing and journalism projects. Action verbs appear in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, and Russian. Write your resume or state your credentials in several languages. Or use the verbs in public speaking or in your writing projects from novels to instructional materials. 801 Action Verbs for Communicators gives you the opportunity to look up the verbs in several languages. Mix and match numbers to compare the verbs. Play word games. Use action verbs

Author: Anne Hart
Publisher: iUniverse
Keywords: print, media, writers, script, writing, entertainment, new, playwrights, content, marketing, digital, bible, skills, promotion, writer, novelists
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2001-08-20
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0595193056
ISBN-13: 9780595193059

The Writer’s Bible is a popular textbook, guide, and mentor to fiction, entertainment, and nonfiction writers in the new and print media. The book helps writers write their business plan as well as acquire skills. It’s a career planning and writing-skills textbook and a popular book for authors headed for print-on-demand and traditional publishers as well as the electronic media.If you write fiction, nonfiction, drama, learning materials, multimedia, and digital media or for the Internet, you’ll find the information in this book useful and timely.Here’s how to be your o

Authors:Anne Hart, George Sheldon,
Publisher: Career Press
Keywords: decoded, tests, personality, employment
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2007-07-30
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 1564149463
ISBN-13: 9781564149466

At least 30 percent of American companies, from American Express and Bank of America and IBM to Marriott, Procter & Gamble, Time Warner, and a host of smaller firms, subject their employees to one or more personality tests each year. Why do they do it? Employers want to hire and retain employees who are qualified, confident, resilient, even-tempered, and loyal. Personality assessments, like coaches, help them identify potential problems. The corporate world is intense. Employers need to know how their staff will deal with the inevitable pull of priorities between a regimented