DO YOU HAVE THE "WRITE" STUFF? Now You Can Turn Your Writing Dreams into Reality

Do you ever daydream about seeing your name on bookstore shelves and in national magazines? Do you ever wish you could quit your day job to pursue a full-time writing career? With National I Love to Write" Day on the horizon (November 15), now is the perfect time to turn your writing dreams into reality. If you do decide to take the plunge, youll soon learn that writing and publishing is the easy part. Its the next step that requires work.

Do you ever daydream about seeing your name on bookstore shelves and in national magazines? Do you ever wish you could quit your day job to pursue a full-time writing career? With National I Love to Write" Day on the horizon (November 15), now is the perfect time to turn your writing dreams into reality. If you do decide to take the plunge, youll soon learn that writing and publishing is the easy part. Its the next step that requires work.

If you want to achieve a lucrative writing career, you have to market yourself and your book for success," says Dawn Josephson, Founder and President of Cameo Publications. Once youve published your book, it is your responsibility to get it noticed by the public. Without book promotion, your books will go no further than from the delivery truck to your garage."

While it is true that successful book promotion requires both time and effort, aspiring best-selling authors can take one important step take that will make the task much easier. Before you begin a book marketing campaign, you need to create a powerful, information-packed book press kit. A powerful press kit is your books secret weapon against the competition," says Josephson. It can set your book apart from the more than 134,999 others published the same year as yours."

A press kit acts as your books resume, highlighting what the book is about, why your message is important, who you are as an author, how the book will help your readers, and how you are marketing your book. It gives the media, book buyers, bookstores, and distributors all the information they need to make a decision as to whether they would like to stock or review your title.

Writing and marketing a book is both a challenging and rewarding endeavor. Those who do both successfully have a commitment to their work, a drive to succeed, and a professional book press kit that generates results. Together, these three elements can help you confidently take your writing from a hobby to a profession, turning what was once only a dream, into reality.

Dawn Josephson is an editor, ghostwriter, and idea development consultant. She helps professional speakers, business leaders, and non-fiction authors maximize their exposure and increase their recognition through the written word. She has over 1,000 published articles and 14 published books.

Find more information on how to create a media kit that will yield the results youve been dreaming of in Josephsons book, Putting It On Paper: The Ground Rules for Creating Promotional Pieces that Sell Books [Ground Rules Press (a subsidiary of Cameo Publications), $19.95, 0-9744966-1-8. If you would like to interview Dawn Josephson, please call 1-866-372-2636 or email paula@cameopublications.com.