DON'T BECOME A BOOK EDITOR!!! At least, not until you learn the 5 things I wish I'd known before becoming a book editor myself. Because if you learn these early on, you'll scale your business much faster.Check out "Word Up" here to start building a 6-figure writing business without all the trial and error.

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In this episode, we'll explore an idea that's been growing over the past ten years: Is self-publishing your novel a shortcut to getting a big book deal? Without having to deal with the search for an agent?

Especially with self-pub success stories like "The Martian," "The Atlas Six," and even "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" being used as examples, aspiring authors need to take a closer look at what's really happening with those authors and why some self-pub titles are able to win the attention of the Big Five.

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In this video, I do a real-time developmental edit of the world's WORST book...a book I started back in high school 20 years ago and never finished. You'll see what developmental editing actually looks like (hint: it's not about typos), and the kind of notes and feedback you can expect from a developmental editor. Except hopefully your editor is nicer to you than I am to myself.

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Early in my editing career, an author's greatest fear happened to us...someone stole my wife's book idea and created their own version to sell. In this video, I'll take you behind-the-scenes of how the situation played out (you'll NEVER guess...), what we learned about protecting your IP and copyright, how to respond to idea theft, and how YOU can protect your own book.

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More and more, publishers [and readers] are using AI detection tools to "AI check" books. But can we trust those tools? Especially when classic books that pre-date AI are showing up as "AI generated"?In this episode, Jonathan explains the real story of what is happening with AI checkers, revisits the Mia Ballard / Shy Girl controversy that made headlines earlier this year when her book was pulled by her publisher over AI allegations, and tells you how to protect yourself from the AI Witch Hunt.

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What if there was a secret way to reverse-engineer a book deal for yourself?Turns out there is...and few aspiring authors use the reverse-engineering method. Jonathan Jordan, an award-winning book coach and ghostwriter, demonstrates this secret method that uses Publishers Marketplace data and a good ol' fashioned spreadsheet to identify the right acquisitions editors for your book and the agents who sell to them.

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In this webinar designed for aspiring authors (especially nonfiction authors), you'll learn:

• The 3 main paths to publishing a book
• The Good, The Bad, and The Gray of each path
• What you need to succeed with each path
• A fourth not-so-secret path (that you should be doing NOW)
• Common scams to watch out for
• And some dirty, dirty secrets about publishing

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Have you ever been hit by a change that you felt like you couldn’t overcome? Or maybe you’ve bought into that old expression that “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.”

I think we’ve all been there at some point and it’s easy to just give up. But guest Loren Greiff is going to share with us how change actually empowers your professional journey. So what if we stopped seeing change as a disruptor and started seeing it as the plot device that helps us write a better story? Because change is storytelling.

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Have you ever struggled with how to be vulnerable in your content without crossing a line? Well, good news—this episode is going to give you a solution. The bad news? You’re going to have to talk about your mistakes. Because even the mistake you regret the most is storytelling.

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Have you ever felt like you've made so many mistakes in life that you can’t move forward? Like your whole life story needs to be tossed in the trash and rewritten?

If so, guest Brittany Young is going to show you the powerful way that she took her mistakes and used them to rewrite her Story—and how she’s helping others rewrite their stories. Because even our mistakes … are storytelling.

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