How To Write A Book Quickly And Easily

Have you ever wanted to write a book?  Do you have an idea for a story or a plot that you’d love to publish one day?  Or as a business owner, do you realise that a book can be the ultimate business card?  Maybe you’ve got a child who’s creative and they’ve got ideas pouring out of their head. 

Hiya – my name’s Jonathan, I’ve just published my 11th book and I’d like to show you how to get a book done quickly and easily… for virtually nothing.  If you’d like to know exactly how to get your book out in the next 90 days, for free or for less than a family meal out, then watch the rest of this video



So I started doing some research on Google Trends and other websites that give you that kind of data about what the market wants – where’s the demand?  Honestly I was surprised – every day you see stuff on Facebook about creating online courses or various trainers offering their online programmes, but there’s WAY more demand for information on how to write a book.  Here’s a screenshot from Google Trends showing the demand for how to write a book in blue, and how to create an online course in red.  This is Worldwide in the last 12 months.  So guess what?  I’m making a video about the top one!



And just so you know you’re in safe hands, here are some of my books, and here are some of the results of some of my clients.



As you can see we’re quite good at not only getting books written and published, we’re also damn good at turning our clients into bestselling authors. 



Fancy being a best-selling author?



Now if it’s so easy, why doesn’t everyone write a book?

Well, we both know it might be simple, but it ain’t easy.  There are 3 main reasons people struggle with producing their own book:



1] You don’t know what to write about.  Where do you start?  OK, so ask yourself would your first book [notice that I said first book, cos once you’ve been bitten by the bug, you’ll want to do more] would your first book be a fictional story, or a non-fiction factual book?  Fiction is the tougher one of the two, cos you need an idea for a fantastic story, you need to know if its science fiction, horror, a cowboy story, a romance, i.e what genre.  Then you need a plot.  I can recommend a guy called Stevie Drive who created a series called Perfect 10 plots – these are pre-written templates for whole books.  You just fill in the blanks.



2] Little old me – impostor syndrome – who’d read a book that I wrote?  Most authors go through that stage of feeling vulnerable, like people are seeing into your soul.  I felt like that when I wrote my first book – I was worried what my parents would think if they read it. You could always write under a pen name so nobody knows it’s you.  Listen, if you are passionate about your topic and you have a dream of being published as an author, just do it.  The royalties help ease the struggle 



3] Technology puts me off or is overwhelming.   Like most things in life, it sounds more complicated than it actually is.  All you need is a word processor like Microsoft Word, and a cover.  And I’m going to show you where you can get that done too.  Getting excited yet?



The good news is that, if you’re struggling with any of these issues, I am going to show you very clear, proven and easy-to-implement steps you can use TODAY to handle these issues and start your writing career without losing your shirt or having to get rejected by publishing houses



Non-fiction factual books are the easiest.   Biggest FAQ’s customers ask you.  Not sure?  Go to a wonderful website called Answerthepublic.com. Or go on Google Trends and look at what people are looking for information on. Or the Amazon best seller list in your niche or area.  Look at what’s selling, cos you’re far better giving the market what it wants than trying to guess



Fiction? I’d recommend The Marshall Plan book and software, or Save The Cat by Blake Snyder. Both of those have a template that you can follow. Or Google The Heroes Journey and you’ll see the formula that most books and movie use, from Star Wars to Lord Of The Rings.



Your book manuscript is just a Word document.  Start with an introduction which is mostly your bio or story – tell us who you are, why we should listen to you, your credentials, qualifications, experience and then a bit of background story telling us your experience in your chosen topic.



Then 3-5 chapters of meaty content.  You ideally want about 50-100 pages so 10-20 pages per chapter FOR YOUR FIRST BOOK.  The easiest and fastest way to do that is sit down for dinner with your friends or family, stick your phone’s voice recorder on and record an hour on one topic.  Then send that to Otter.ai and it will be transcribed for you overnight.  Five dinners and you’ve got a book

Then finish with an offer to join your Facebook Group, or buy your main product or service, or go to this website.  A next step.



For your Book cover you can do it for free using the pre-made covers inside Canva.com, there’s a great website called Designrr which has pre-made covers and layouts – in fact you can import your text into that and it’ll make it look pretty.  The other cheap option is the wonderful Fiverr.com where you can get an awesome cover done for peanuts – even £20 will get you a nice looking cover.



What should your cover look like?  Again look at the Amazon best seller list – look at the most common colours being used.  Are they long titles or short titles?  Do the covers have people on them or diagrams?  Photos or cartoons?  Again you should be modelling what’s already selling.  So if they are mostly blue covers with a person’s face on the front and 3 word titles, so should yours be.



Here’s an example of a client of ours – Fae wanted to write a vampire novel which are huge on Amazon Kindle.  Most of the covers were spooky, blacks and purples, with a girl on the front and 3 word titles.  So we produced Dead To Me.



Then you go to kdp.amazon.com, upload your word document, upload your cover, and 24 hours later you’ll have a book on Amazon Kindle.  Boom!  You’re a published author on the world’s biggest book selling platform



See once you’ve got a book that’s divided into say 5 chapters, it’s really easy to then sit down in front of your smartphone or even a webinar app like Zoom, and read your chapters to camera.  Now you’ve got an online course!



Now I’ve made this sound ridiculously easy, and it is simple – maybe not easy – but this in only part of the overall process to making money online or using your book to get more visibility, sales or credibility.  You still need to market the book cos nobody will know about it unless you tell them.



Now we have a flagship programme called The Guru Factory where over 90 days we help our client write a book and create an online course.  We handle all of the technology, the transcribing, we organise your cover, we even get the book uploaded onto Amazon for you.



But that’s actually step 6 in a 9 step roadmap from struggling and invisible, to impacting thousands of people without years of trying to figure it out yourself.



Fancy making money while you sleep?



How confident are you that you could do all of the above steps?  I’ve tried to strip it right back and make it as simple as possible, and as low cost.  Now as I said, we do all this for you as part of the Guru Factory programme.



If you’d like to get crystal clear on the first steps you should be taking right now then schedule a call with me and we’ll take a look at how a book fits in to your overall game plan.  We help entrepreneurial people who want to have book in their name and be an author on Amazon, or they already have a book and it’s not selling.  Either way we can help.  So see the details below this video and let’s have a chat.