| Visit our online marketing, blogging, seo and webmaster bookstore. |
 |
|
 |
||
| Books written by Duane Forrester | ||||
|
WOW!
I checked Amazon.com this morning and suddenly I’m listed as an author and the book is posted in their system. It’s available for pre-order now, and Amazon is offering it at a discounted price. Not sure I like THAT, but hey - they know how to sell books, so who am I to question it…LOL
Sphere: Related ContentWOW! The first day it’s really felt like spring around here.
I’m on the deck, dogs wandering around panting, enjoying the building mid-day heat. I was going through some missed e-mails form earlier this week and figured I’d offer a bit of a news round up for folks, so here goes.
Here’s a great little item I’ve been enjoying lately. The Hawthorne Videoactive segment. It runs daily to keep you up to date on all things online marketing, Interactive and such. This yesterday’s stories included the following items:
Other stories covered on their site included:
Visit them here - it’s worth it
A book update.
Some of you who’ve been reading this site for a bit may recall I’m writing a book. Well, it’s coming along. In fact, the first manuscript draft is due next week to the publisher. This doesn’t mean it’ll be out soon, it simply means we’ve got to have our stuff into them to begin the editing process. It’s still slotted for a fall release.
Good Music
If you like 80’s music (which I do), here’s a tip for a great station heard through iTunes.
Go to the International section
Scroll down a bit
Look for the station labeled Hot Mix Radio 80 - 100% années 80 - Hot Mix Radio 80’s - Live from Paris France - http://www.hotmixradio.fr
It’s one of the best 80’s stations I’ve found online so far - very good mix an decent depth, too, so you’re not hearing the same songs every hour.
Well, I’m going to leave this post at that. I’m off to get something cold from the fridge and get started on many more hours of content creation for the book.
Sphere: Related ContentSome of you may know that I post at various forums under the handle SportsGuy (or sportsguy). I moderate at www.searchengineforums.com, I help out at the small business forums at www.searchengineguide.com and I try to help as often as possible over at www.ihelpyou.com and www.searchenginewatch.com.
In fact, I recently signed a contract with SEW to write some articles for them on in-house SEM and how to build the team effectively.
Now, only a few folks know that I’ve been pursuing a book deal for the past year or so.
It all began when, in a moment of venting that I’m sure all mods have, I made a comment in the staff area at SEF. I said, “I should just write a book on the basics of optimizing and monetizing a website for everyone.” Common questions were getting me down.
Another staffer said, “Why not?”
After some soul searching and some of the best advice I’ve ever received, (Anyone can write an e-book, but to land a book deal means you actually know your stuff.) I decided to contact a book agent.
If you’ve never tried to get a book deal before, it’s a daunting task.
First you pitch the book agent, usually via an online form and by answering specific questions. It’s pretty in depth but helps them weed out the good from the bad. Even choosing an agent is a tough task. I went with a recommendation from a friend and I’m glad I did.
The book agent contacted me back in November of 2005 saying she liked my idea and wanted to pitch it to some publishers.
Fast forward to today and the project is a go. I got the offer last night (advances, it turns out, are NOT urban legends!). The project has evolved a lot since I started it. The initial focus of the book has changed slightly, I have a co-author on-board who’s already a published author, we haggled on the name a bit with the publisher, etc.
But now, McGraw Hill/Osborne has sent us an offer. The final draft is due by June 1st, 2007 and they even suggested how many pages the book should be…LOL
So, this all means that by September-ish I should have a book on store shelves. 
Very cool.
The focus of the book is building blogs and monetizing them. Since I’ve done it, I figured I’d talk about it.
So, there we go - I have a book deal. Very freakin’ cool, IMO!
Huge thanks go out to those who started me thinking of this project and the those who got my head straight on whether to even pursue it.
Sphere: Related Content
