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9Secrets
to Writing
BlockbusterBooks
by Angela Treat Lyon
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9 Secretsof
Blockbuster Books
Write and Publish Extraordinary Books
and Articles
For clear Intelligent amp beautiful books
Create your books using these specific guidelines When you do you will find that your writing will be really easy to read Not only that but the segments of text will be so obvious that your reader can easily go back to identify which page that quote was on what chapter that point was made in and so on Makes it look great and read really well
1 No formatting at the start
I REPEAT No formatting when you write your first draft
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This is really important Donrsquot bother to take the time to format your writing yetmdashyoursquoll change it later guaranteed No matter how great it looks now you will want to make changes Yoursquoll waste time if you have to redo what you have formattedYoursquoll also tend to not want to change what needs correction or repositioning just because it looks so good and you donrsquot want to bother
Donrsquot indent make bold or italics right now Save all that for the final drafts Yoursquoll be going over what you wrote again at least three timesmdashconservativelymdashyou can add the bold text points italics quotes photos and illustrations then
2 Book Organization
First comes the number of the chapter then your chapter title then your subtitle if necessary
Headers and subheaders break your text up into segments for chun-ked-down reading and easy visual reference
If you plan out and write your book this way you wonrsquot have to take the time later on to figure out what sentence or phrases to use for the headers and subheaders
Here is how I set this book up
Chapter numberTitle Subtitle
(leave 3 text-size spaces between titles and subheaders)
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Header (leave 1 text-size space here)Subheader Text text text
I use Palatino for my text font It as well as Arial and Tahome has proven to be popular because it is clear black and very readable even when reduced in size Donrsquot use a font like Courier which looks grade-schoolish or Americana which appears light and very grey on screen and hard to read You want to make your writing easy to read Any strain and your reader will stop reading put the book down and not return Some say use Courier to imitate the look of a typewritermdashin truth though using Courier makes your writing look outdated
Herersquos how your chapter number title and subtitle will look formatted
Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
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(leave 3 text-size spaces between titles and subheaders)
Writing articles for free publicity(leave 1 text-size space here)How to begin your articleText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
3 Structure
a Tell lsquoem what yoursquore going to tell lsquoem
ExampleIrsquom going to tell you how to together put a great looking easy-to-read book so you can make books sell them and make residual income
b Tell lsquoem 5 (or more) points yoursquoll discuss
Example (and use a nice looking bullet)Herersquos what Irsquom going to talk about How to write books How to find public domain works to use How to structure your marketing program How to set up websites and affiliate programs What to do with your money once you get it so it works for you and not you for it
OrHerersquos what Irsquom going to talk about How I used to suffer from suicidal depression How I decided to change no matter what How I searched and researched non-stop
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How I found and became certified in EFT How you too can have success and enjoy being not only pros-perous but able to help so many people
c Write out each point and a supporting paragraph
Similarly yoursquoll write your book point by point each point can be a whole chapter rather than just a paragraph
Example I used to be a broke depressed starving artistSupporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text
Make paragraphs and sentences short for ease of readingblah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc
I made the decision to change no matter whatSupporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah etc text blah blah blah etc
I spent several years in tremendous research into energy tech-niques and internet marketing strategies
Supporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah
I learned and was certified in EFT and I learned how to market my books products and classes on the internetSupporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah
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As a now-successful energy practitioner I use the vast array of avail-able internet tools and technology to market my transformational and wealth-building services and products It allows me to be found by those who need them and makes it easy for me to teach them how to do the same thing as well
Supporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc
d Summarize tell lsquoem what you told lsquoem
ExampleNow you know how someone who was suicidal for the most part of 35 yearsmdashalmost half her lifemdashhas created a happy more fulfilling life that she can wake up happy about every morning
And how she uses the internet to build and expand her business and contacts so she can do more of what she loves to do have a great time helping folks live their dreams and spend more personal time at the beach
e Sell without selling
Within the text mention your product service or book by name WITHOUT selling
Example ldquoIn my book ldquoChange your Mindrdquo I make the point that you can eliminate or relieve pain by a simple tapping with your fingertips Itrsquos this technique that helped me get rid of my 35-year suicidal depression (Change Your Mind here)
ldquoDepression can be so debilitating that onersquos chemical balance can be so thrown out of whack itrsquos impossible to think straight In this conditionrdquo And so on
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See how I used a conversational tone to perk up the interest of someone who suffers depression Readers find themselves wanting to see the book but I havenrsquot done a hard sell
You have to create curiosity and empathy so they feel with you and want for themselves what yoursquove gotten or done
f Contact information for articles
IMPERATIVE Include your contact informationExample of text to add the end of your article
ANGELA TREAT LYON bull LyonRich-RadiocomEFTBookscom PIGEEScom Rich-Radiocom
EFT and Wealth Creation Training Books and other ProductsYou may use this article only in its entirety and with complete
contact information included
For print booksAdd any resources you want to include on the bookrsquos last page contact information lists of products lists of links to business or friendsrsquo websites and affiliate links (which you can also sprinkle into the text if appropriate) etc If itrsquos bound for a website use live links httpwwwPIGEEScom instead of PIGEEScom
You might want to add a prologue an addendum bibliography ap-pendices references cross-references and other types of indicesmdashyou name it
4 Header and footer
At the top of each page place your bookrsquos title at the bottom your copyright and contact information
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Why If yoursquore making an ebook that a person will be printing out you want to make sure that even if the pages are shuffled around or get blown into a tornado they have the following items placed on them in a way that is easy-to-find and integrated with the design
The title of the book The copy copyright sign your name and date of copyright The page number Your website andor contact information All rights reserved
You can have a lot of fun with the footer In this particular series of books I stayed pretty conservative But in other books Irsquove built I went hog-wild Take a look at the footer of the book I built for Rebecca Marina and me to give away 10 Tips to Make People Like You in 30 Seconds or Less
And here is the one I used for one of my own books From Starving to Full Speed Ahead
Granted these are not your ordinary run-of-the-mill footers But they do provide the information I want to convey and are unique design elements that add to the quality of my writing the look of the books and even emphasize the topics themselves
IMPORTANT NOTE Make sure there is NO TEXT less than 5rdquo from left or right edge (I like to leave 75rdquo) and 312rdquo at the top and 5rdquo at bottom as your text may get trimmed off when printed pages are cut to size and bound if you use full page (A4 or 85rdquo x 11rdquo) formats
copy Rebecca Marina 2005 9 CelebrationHealingcomAll rights reserved
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5 Spelling amp punctuation can make or break your credibility
Print this section out and keep it near when you write It will save your butt more times than yoursquoll ever believe
a Sounds silly but remember to use Spellcheck
Andmdasheven though you have diligently gone through and corrected with Spellcheck make sure your word usage is correct
b Pay careful attention to these words your and yoursquore there and their its and itrsquos Spell check wonrsquot find or correct them
When you say ldquoThere house burned downrdquo you look like an idiot and lose credibility Immediately No matter who you are or how popular or how much money you make
When you say ldquoTheir house burned downrdquo no one noticesmdash because itrsquos correct Mistakes are mind-stoppers Mistakes make the reader stop comprehending what he is reading to think about what was said so his eyes continuemdashbut miss the message
Avoid mind-stoppers that stop your readersrsquo train of thought by making them have to stop and figure out what you meant making them think you are uneducated and making them wonder if you are as smart as you claim to be if you make mistakes like this
WRONG ldquoYour going to the storerdquoRIGHT ldquoYoursquore going to the storerdquo
WRONG ldquoYoursquore computer just blew uprdquoRIGHT ldquoYour computer just blew uprdquo
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WRONG ldquoIts about timerdquoRIGHT ldquoItrsquos about timerdquo
WRONG Seeing itrsquos nose surprised meRIGHT Seeing its nose surprised me
Its and itrsquos seem backwards from how we think they ought to logically be used We think itrsquos ought to be possessive But it isnrsquot Herersquos why
Itrsquos is a contractionmdasha shorteningmdashof it and is
Its is the possessive form Example Its head was green and pointed(NOT Itrsquos head)
WRONG Itrsquos foot got stuck itrsquos memory card was shot RIGHT Its foot got stuck its memory card was shot
Correct Contraction Itrsquos hotCorrect Possessive Its nose burned from the heat
Be really careful because in the wrong places the incorrect use of these words will totally undermine your credibility and radically reduce the faith and trust yoursquore trying to build in your readers
c Apostrophe overload Possession and plurals
The incorrect use of the possessive form to make things or persons pluralmdashmore than onemdashgets me ranting every time as in They said their horsersquos went over the hill
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NO They said their horsersquos went over the hillThis lsquos indicates possession Horses over the hill donrsquot own anything here
YES They said their horses went over the hill PluralYES ldquoThe horsesrsquo tails were flying as they ran over the hillrdquo is correct Possessivemdashthe tails they own are flying
NO There are resourcersquos in the boxThere are resources in the box Resources donrsquot own anything here
YES There are resources in the box PluralYES ldquoThe resourcersquos best part is rdquo is correct Possessive - the best part of the resource NO Breakthroughrsquos In PersuasionBreakthroughs donrsquot own anything here
YES Breakthroughs In Persuasion PluralYES ldquoMy breakthroughrsquos worst part was when such and such happenedrdquo that usage would be correct Possessive
Do you see the difference
And YES lsquo90s MP3s CDs NO lsquo90rsquos MP3rsquos CDrsquosThe form to use to show a person or thing possessing is Samrsquos hat the carrsquos door Arnoldrsquos accent Motherrsquos skirt the bookrsquos chapter headings Plural Possession The horsesrsquo tails
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d Punctuation
So many people blow this one
1 To indicate a pause use a comma not WRONG If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it RIGHT If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it
WRONG When he went away she became lonelyRIGHT When he went away she became lonely
2 When using quotes punctuation goes INSIDE themWRONG She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo RIGHT She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo
However if an end-word is in quotations the punctuation goes outside the quote marksWRONG Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquoRIGHT Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquo
e Pauses
Copywriters are told ldquoWrite like you speak so you can sound famil-iarrdquo But contrary to what people say when you write like you speak you need to remember that a pause in speech is not structured the same as a pause in writing
WRONG Now you have to remember when you leave the door open the flies come inRIGHT Now you have to remember that when you leave the door open the flies come in
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f Spacing
One space between sentences It used to be two now itrsquos OK to use only one
6 Hisher theytheir
Herersquos what most people write If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See anything wrong with that
Probably not because this incorrect usage is so prevalent
Here is how it ought to be writtenIf a person wants he can leave his shoes out front
Take this sentence apart If A person wants to THEY can leave
What How did ONE person become THEY
However most of us donrsquot want to hassle over whether to say he or she him or her or hers or his
Therersquos a way to get around that
Herersquos how we say it wrongWRONG If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See how weird that is Since when is one person a ldquotheyrdquoRIGHT ldquoIf PEOPLE want THEY can leave their shoes out frontrdquo That is much more congruent See PEOPLE THEY
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Itrsquos either ONE person (says) he or she (thinks this or that)OR
PEOPLE (say) THEY (think this or that)
7 The correct usage of dots
Within a sentence use three dots to indicate that some part of a text is missing as in a quote from someoneWhen she saw thatshe really looked worried
At the end of a sentence use four dots to indicate something miss-ing or simply left to the imaginationThen he walked down into the foggy valley
Avoid using dots to indicate a pause within the sentence
8 Whom and who
I think whoever (NOT whomever) started dredging up the word ldquowhomrdquo a few years ago ought to be shot
Perhaps it started in a movie script written by someone who wanted the character to seem educated I donrsquot know
But every time I hear someone ay ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo my guts shrivel I donrsquot think there is any other word as badly misused Did you know that the way whom ought to be used is
ldquoWith whom are you going to the partyrdquo
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BUTmdashare you really going to say that I donrsquot think so
We want to sound intelligent yes But not stilted
We say more commonly ldquoWho are you going withrdquo
The whole flap is because we arenrsquot supposed to have those ldquodangling participlesrdquo at the end of our sentence or question Like ldquoWho are you going withrdquo Or ldquoWhorsquod you give it tordquo
When you say ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo yoursquore making not only one blunder but a double blunder Poor old Miss Pine your ninth-grade very correct English teacher would do spin cycles in her grave Whom is used incorrectly and therersquos that dumb dangling participle
Herersquos how to use the ldquowhomrdquo wordNO ldquoWhom are you going withrdquoYES ldquoWith whom are you goingrdquo
OK If you just canrsquot get yourself to say that then say ldquoWho are you going withrdquo At least that sounds less stilted and no matter that the ldquowithrdquo dangles
Before you start writing copy for an ad or writing your book choose the group to whom you are writing (seemdashdoesnrsquot that sound good) Do you want to sound casual Or is it more important to sound educated or business-likemdashor even stilted Maybe your bookrsquos character is supposed to sound stilted Itrsquos important to know how to choose so you can choose
If casual use ldquoWho are you going withrdquo or ldquogive tordquo
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If business use ldquowith whomrdquo or ldquoto whomrdquo
NO ldquoThe president whom you were seen with last nightrdquoYES ldquoThe president with whom you were seenrdquo OK ldquoThe president who you were seen with last nightrdquo
NO ldquoMartha whom he danced with in 1978 met himrdquoYES ldquoMartha with whom he danced in 1978 met himrdquoOK ldquoMartha who he danced with in 1978 met himrdquo
NO ldquoDr Jacobs whom he dedicated the book tordquoYES ldquoDr Jacobs to whom he dedicated the bookrdquoOK ldquoDr Jacobs who he dedicated the book tordquo
(Understand please OK means the usage is OK but certainly not great and still would make Miss Pine [to whom these things were most important] suffer even if she has been gone all these years)
9 Placement of illustrations amp quotes
If you have places within the text where an illustration will go when the book or article is complete write your draft like this
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on After the end of your paragraph right here leave room for your to-be-added photo or illustration and make appropriatenotes to indicate to yourself or your assistant what goes here like this
Illustration 3 hereOptional title of photo here
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o M
elis
sa Ir
elan
d
Credits Photo or art credit goes here small or at 90 degrees to pageAlso make sure you have filed the relevant photo so you can find it easily so itrsquos ready to insert into your almost-final drafts
Only format the text to fit around your illustration after your text is finalized This is really important If you insert all your images prematurely when you delete add or change text they will each also have to be adjusted
Hold off Be patient Itrsquos worth itmdashyoursquoll literally save yourself HOURS of readjusting Wait until your text is done before you insert your images When your text is final and you have inserted the image it can look like this one does See how the image sits nicely within the body of the text with that nice
white space around it lots of room for it to breathe
Quotes Make a place for a quote within your text indicating where it goes like this
Leave two lines between the text and the quoteIndicate quote here
When you format make the font a bit larger more bold or italic or centered
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on and so on
There are as many ways to include quotes as there are people writing books I like to leave two line spaces before and after the quote and I center it in boldmdashor as in this book in a font that naturally aligns in appearance with the title font
Like this
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Time flies when I write
Others like to put their quote on the margin moving the text over a bit or in a box or in a space indented into the text just the way
this little example is or the way the image on the previous page looks
In the books I designed for EFT Master Rue Hass recently I made the quotes quite bold because they were strong statements and needed a corresponding look
You are literally what you think
As you can see I also enlarged and used an emphasizing color for the most important words in the quote to push home the essence of the message
If you have ever seen any of manifestos that top business critic Tom Peters writes yoursquoll see a similar very edgy choice of font color and emphasis His manifestos are quite brilliant
Irsquom sure yours will be too So many choices you can make other than Courier Times and straight left and right justified formatting
ldquoTime flies when I writerdquo- Angela Treat Lyon
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Your finished bookmdashA Recap
Write You have written your text collected your quotes illustrations and other supporting material
Edit You have made sure your spelling and other text errors are eliminated
Format You have formatted your text using the guidelines set out in the beginning of this book using your favorite ONE OR TWO mdashand no moremdasheasy-to-read fonts
Fonts Be very sparing of fancy font usage If used too much they only serve to distract from your writing and some can be quite unreadable
Fancy fonts have no place in articles or books unless they are meant to be more decorative than functionalmdashperhaps as part of a heading or chapter title
Photos and other You have inserted your supporting materials in the correct positions
Tweak You have tweaked your formatting to allow captions and titles for photos or illustrations or charts if need be
White space Yoursquove got white space around all your graphs illustrations and photos and some good margins for notes
So ultimately (and in accordance with the ldquolookrdquo you give your book with fonts and illustration) your book or article might look like this
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Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
Writing articles for free publicity
What do you write aboutText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text
text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text
ldquoYoursquore writing whatrdquo
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text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Add your quote here like this
ldquoPut your future in good handsyour ownrdquo
Mark Victor Hansen
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
The End
copy Renalda Whodewhat 2006 All rights reserved You may feel free to use this article in your newsletter or ezine upon the condition that you agree keep 100 of the text illustrations and links intact Thanks TheUltimateWebsitecom RenaldaTheUltimateWebsitecom
________________________
Thatrsquos it Now go write edit build publish and sell your beautiful clear intelligently written books and articles
On the following pages I have listed all kinds of support andresources that I and my other writer-friends use
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Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
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Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
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Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
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Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
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9 Secretsof
Blockbuster Books
Write and Publish Extraordinary Books
and Articles
For clear Intelligent amp beautiful books
Create your books using these specific guidelines When you do you will find that your writing will be really easy to read Not only that but the segments of text will be so obvious that your reader can easily go back to identify which page that quote was on what chapter that point was made in and so on Makes it look great and read really well
1 No formatting at the start
I REPEAT No formatting when you write your first draft
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This is really important Donrsquot bother to take the time to format your writing yetmdashyoursquoll change it later guaranteed No matter how great it looks now you will want to make changes Yoursquoll waste time if you have to redo what you have formattedYoursquoll also tend to not want to change what needs correction or repositioning just because it looks so good and you donrsquot want to bother
Donrsquot indent make bold or italics right now Save all that for the final drafts Yoursquoll be going over what you wrote again at least three timesmdashconservativelymdashyou can add the bold text points italics quotes photos and illustrations then
2 Book Organization
First comes the number of the chapter then your chapter title then your subtitle if necessary
Headers and subheaders break your text up into segments for chun-ked-down reading and easy visual reference
If you plan out and write your book this way you wonrsquot have to take the time later on to figure out what sentence or phrases to use for the headers and subheaders
Here is how I set this book up
Chapter numberTitle Subtitle
(leave 3 text-size spaces between titles and subheaders)
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Header (leave 1 text-size space here)Subheader Text text text
I use Palatino for my text font It as well as Arial and Tahome has proven to be popular because it is clear black and very readable even when reduced in size Donrsquot use a font like Courier which looks grade-schoolish or Americana which appears light and very grey on screen and hard to read You want to make your writing easy to read Any strain and your reader will stop reading put the book down and not return Some say use Courier to imitate the look of a typewritermdashin truth though using Courier makes your writing look outdated
Herersquos how your chapter number title and subtitle will look formatted
Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
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(leave 3 text-size spaces between titles and subheaders)
Writing articles for free publicity(leave 1 text-size space here)How to begin your articleText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
3 Structure
a Tell lsquoem what yoursquore going to tell lsquoem
ExampleIrsquom going to tell you how to together put a great looking easy-to-read book so you can make books sell them and make residual income
b Tell lsquoem 5 (or more) points yoursquoll discuss
Example (and use a nice looking bullet)Herersquos what Irsquom going to talk about How to write books How to find public domain works to use How to structure your marketing program How to set up websites and affiliate programs What to do with your money once you get it so it works for you and not you for it
OrHerersquos what Irsquom going to talk about How I used to suffer from suicidal depression How I decided to change no matter what How I searched and researched non-stop
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How I found and became certified in EFT How you too can have success and enjoy being not only pros-perous but able to help so many people
c Write out each point and a supporting paragraph
Similarly yoursquoll write your book point by point each point can be a whole chapter rather than just a paragraph
Example I used to be a broke depressed starving artistSupporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text
Make paragraphs and sentences short for ease of readingblah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc
I made the decision to change no matter whatSupporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah etc text blah blah blah etc
I spent several years in tremendous research into energy tech-niques and internet marketing strategies
Supporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah
I learned and was certified in EFT and I learned how to market my books products and classes on the internetSupporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah
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As a now-successful energy practitioner I use the vast array of avail-able internet tools and technology to market my transformational and wealth-building services and products It allows me to be found by those who need them and makes it easy for me to teach them how to do the same thing as well
Supporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc
d Summarize tell lsquoem what you told lsquoem
ExampleNow you know how someone who was suicidal for the most part of 35 yearsmdashalmost half her lifemdashhas created a happy more fulfilling life that she can wake up happy about every morning
And how she uses the internet to build and expand her business and contacts so she can do more of what she loves to do have a great time helping folks live their dreams and spend more personal time at the beach
e Sell without selling
Within the text mention your product service or book by name WITHOUT selling
Example ldquoIn my book ldquoChange your Mindrdquo I make the point that you can eliminate or relieve pain by a simple tapping with your fingertips Itrsquos this technique that helped me get rid of my 35-year suicidal depression (Change Your Mind here)
ldquoDepression can be so debilitating that onersquos chemical balance can be so thrown out of whack itrsquos impossible to think straight In this conditionrdquo And so on
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See how I used a conversational tone to perk up the interest of someone who suffers depression Readers find themselves wanting to see the book but I havenrsquot done a hard sell
You have to create curiosity and empathy so they feel with you and want for themselves what yoursquove gotten or done
f Contact information for articles
IMPERATIVE Include your contact informationExample of text to add the end of your article
ANGELA TREAT LYON bull LyonRich-RadiocomEFTBookscom PIGEEScom Rich-Radiocom
EFT and Wealth Creation Training Books and other ProductsYou may use this article only in its entirety and with complete
contact information included
For print booksAdd any resources you want to include on the bookrsquos last page contact information lists of products lists of links to business or friendsrsquo websites and affiliate links (which you can also sprinkle into the text if appropriate) etc If itrsquos bound for a website use live links httpwwwPIGEEScom instead of PIGEEScom
You might want to add a prologue an addendum bibliography ap-pendices references cross-references and other types of indicesmdashyou name it
4 Header and footer
At the top of each page place your bookrsquos title at the bottom your copyright and contact information
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Why If yoursquore making an ebook that a person will be printing out you want to make sure that even if the pages are shuffled around or get blown into a tornado they have the following items placed on them in a way that is easy-to-find and integrated with the design
The title of the book The copy copyright sign your name and date of copyright The page number Your website andor contact information All rights reserved
You can have a lot of fun with the footer In this particular series of books I stayed pretty conservative But in other books Irsquove built I went hog-wild Take a look at the footer of the book I built for Rebecca Marina and me to give away 10 Tips to Make People Like You in 30 Seconds or Less
And here is the one I used for one of my own books From Starving to Full Speed Ahead
Granted these are not your ordinary run-of-the-mill footers But they do provide the information I want to convey and are unique design elements that add to the quality of my writing the look of the books and even emphasize the topics themselves
IMPORTANT NOTE Make sure there is NO TEXT less than 5rdquo from left or right edge (I like to leave 75rdquo) and 312rdquo at the top and 5rdquo at bottom as your text may get trimmed off when printed pages are cut to size and bound if you use full page (A4 or 85rdquo x 11rdquo) formats
copy Rebecca Marina 2005 9 CelebrationHealingcomAll rights reserved
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5 Spelling amp punctuation can make or break your credibility
Print this section out and keep it near when you write It will save your butt more times than yoursquoll ever believe
a Sounds silly but remember to use Spellcheck
Andmdasheven though you have diligently gone through and corrected with Spellcheck make sure your word usage is correct
b Pay careful attention to these words your and yoursquore there and their its and itrsquos Spell check wonrsquot find or correct them
When you say ldquoThere house burned downrdquo you look like an idiot and lose credibility Immediately No matter who you are or how popular or how much money you make
When you say ldquoTheir house burned downrdquo no one noticesmdash because itrsquos correct Mistakes are mind-stoppers Mistakes make the reader stop comprehending what he is reading to think about what was said so his eyes continuemdashbut miss the message
Avoid mind-stoppers that stop your readersrsquo train of thought by making them have to stop and figure out what you meant making them think you are uneducated and making them wonder if you are as smart as you claim to be if you make mistakes like this
WRONG ldquoYour going to the storerdquoRIGHT ldquoYoursquore going to the storerdquo
WRONG ldquoYoursquore computer just blew uprdquoRIGHT ldquoYour computer just blew uprdquo
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WRONG ldquoIts about timerdquoRIGHT ldquoItrsquos about timerdquo
WRONG Seeing itrsquos nose surprised meRIGHT Seeing its nose surprised me
Its and itrsquos seem backwards from how we think they ought to logically be used We think itrsquos ought to be possessive But it isnrsquot Herersquos why
Itrsquos is a contractionmdasha shorteningmdashof it and is
Its is the possessive form Example Its head was green and pointed(NOT Itrsquos head)
WRONG Itrsquos foot got stuck itrsquos memory card was shot RIGHT Its foot got stuck its memory card was shot
Correct Contraction Itrsquos hotCorrect Possessive Its nose burned from the heat
Be really careful because in the wrong places the incorrect use of these words will totally undermine your credibility and radically reduce the faith and trust yoursquore trying to build in your readers
c Apostrophe overload Possession and plurals
The incorrect use of the possessive form to make things or persons pluralmdashmore than onemdashgets me ranting every time as in They said their horsersquos went over the hill
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NO They said their horsersquos went over the hillThis lsquos indicates possession Horses over the hill donrsquot own anything here
YES They said their horses went over the hill PluralYES ldquoThe horsesrsquo tails were flying as they ran over the hillrdquo is correct Possessivemdashthe tails they own are flying
NO There are resourcersquos in the boxThere are resources in the box Resources donrsquot own anything here
YES There are resources in the box PluralYES ldquoThe resourcersquos best part is rdquo is correct Possessive - the best part of the resource NO Breakthroughrsquos In PersuasionBreakthroughs donrsquot own anything here
YES Breakthroughs In Persuasion PluralYES ldquoMy breakthroughrsquos worst part was when such and such happenedrdquo that usage would be correct Possessive
Do you see the difference
And YES lsquo90s MP3s CDs NO lsquo90rsquos MP3rsquos CDrsquosThe form to use to show a person or thing possessing is Samrsquos hat the carrsquos door Arnoldrsquos accent Motherrsquos skirt the bookrsquos chapter headings Plural Possession The horsesrsquo tails
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d Punctuation
So many people blow this one
1 To indicate a pause use a comma not WRONG If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it RIGHT If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it
WRONG When he went away she became lonelyRIGHT When he went away she became lonely
2 When using quotes punctuation goes INSIDE themWRONG She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo RIGHT She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo
However if an end-word is in quotations the punctuation goes outside the quote marksWRONG Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquoRIGHT Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquo
e Pauses
Copywriters are told ldquoWrite like you speak so you can sound famil-iarrdquo But contrary to what people say when you write like you speak you need to remember that a pause in speech is not structured the same as a pause in writing
WRONG Now you have to remember when you leave the door open the flies come inRIGHT Now you have to remember that when you leave the door open the flies come in
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f Spacing
One space between sentences It used to be two now itrsquos OK to use only one
6 Hisher theytheir
Herersquos what most people write If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See anything wrong with that
Probably not because this incorrect usage is so prevalent
Here is how it ought to be writtenIf a person wants he can leave his shoes out front
Take this sentence apart If A person wants to THEY can leave
What How did ONE person become THEY
However most of us donrsquot want to hassle over whether to say he or she him or her or hers or his
Therersquos a way to get around that
Herersquos how we say it wrongWRONG If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See how weird that is Since when is one person a ldquotheyrdquoRIGHT ldquoIf PEOPLE want THEY can leave their shoes out frontrdquo That is much more congruent See PEOPLE THEY
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Itrsquos either ONE person (says) he or she (thinks this or that)OR
PEOPLE (say) THEY (think this or that)
7 The correct usage of dots
Within a sentence use three dots to indicate that some part of a text is missing as in a quote from someoneWhen she saw thatshe really looked worried
At the end of a sentence use four dots to indicate something miss-ing or simply left to the imaginationThen he walked down into the foggy valley
Avoid using dots to indicate a pause within the sentence
8 Whom and who
I think whoever (NOT whomever) started dredging up the word ldquowhomrdquo a few years ago ought to be shot
Perhaps it started in a movie script written by someone who wanted the character to seem educated I donrsquot know
But every time I hear someone ay ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo my guts shrivel I donrsquot think there is any other word as badly misused Did you know that the way whom ought to be used is
ldquoWith whom are you going to the partyrdquo
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BUTmdashare you really going to say that I donrsquot think so
We want to sound intelligent yes But not stilted
We say more commonly ldquoWho are you going withrdquo
The whole flap is because we arenrsquot supposed to have those ldquodangling participlesrdquo at the end of our sentence or question Like ldquoWho are you going withrdquo Or ldquoWhorsquod you give it tordquo
When you say ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo yoursquore making not only one blunder but a double blunder Poor old Miss Pine your ninth-grade very correct English teacher would do spin cycles in her grave Whom is used incorrectly and therersquos that dumb dangling participle
Herersquos how to use the ldquowhomrdquo wordNO ldquoWhom are you going withrdquoYES ldquoWith whom are you goingrdquo
OK If you just canrsquot get yourself to say that then say ldquoWho are you going withrdquo At least that sounds less stilted and no matter that the ldquowithrdquo dangles
Before you start writing copy for an ad or writing your book choose the group to whom you are writing (seemdashdoesnrsquot that sound good) Do you want to sound casual Or is it more important to sound educated or business-likemdashor even stilted Maybe your bookrsquos character is supposed to sound stilted Itrsquos important to know how to choose so you can choose
If casual use ldquoWho are you going withrdquo or ldquogive tordquo
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If business use ldquowith whomrdquo or ldquoto whomrdquo
NO ldquoThe president whom you were seen with last nightrdquoYES ldquoThe president with whom you were seenrdquo OK ldquoThe president who you were seen with last nightrdquo
NO ldquoMartha whom he danced with in 1978 met himrdquoYES ldquoMartha with whom he danced in 1978 met himrdquoOK ldquoMartha who he danced with in 1978 met himrdquo
NO ldquoDr Jacobs whom he dedicated the book tordquoYES ldquoDr Jacobs to whom he dedicated the bookrdquoOK ldquoDr Jacobs who he dedicated the book tordquo
(Understand please OK means the usage is OK but certainly not great and still would make Miss Pine [to whom these things were most important] suffer even if she has been gone all these years)
9 Placement of illustrations amp quotes
If you have places within the text where an illustration will go when the book or article is complete write your draft like this
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on After the end of your paragraph right here leave room for your to-be-added photo or illustration and make appropriatenotes to indicate to yourself or your assistant what goes here like this
Illustration 3 hereOptional title of photo here
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phot
o M
elis
sa Ir
elan
d
Credits Photo or art credit goes here small or at 90 degrees to pageAlso make sure you have filed the relevant photo so you can find it easily so itrsquos ready to insert into your almost-final drafts
Only format the text to fit around your illustration after your text is finalized This is really important If you insert all your images prematurely when you delete add or change text they will each also have to be adjusted
Hold off Be patient Itrsquos worth itmdashyoursquoll literally save yourself HOURS of readjusting Wait until your text is done before you insert your images When your text is final and you have inserted the image it can look like this one does See how the image sits nicely within the body of the text with that nice
white space around it lots of room for it to breathe
Quotes Make a place for a quote within your text indicating where it goes like this
Leave two lines between the text and the quoteIndicate quote here
When you format make the font a bit larger more bold or italic or centered
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on and so on
There are as many ways to include quotes as there are people writing books I like to leave two line spaces before and after the quote and I center it in boldmdashor as in this book in a font that naturally aligns in appearance with the title font
Like this
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Time flies when I write
Others like to put their quote on the margin moving the text over a bit or in a box or in a space indented into the text just the way
this little example is or the way the image on the previous page looks
In the books I designed for EFT Master Rue Hass recently I made the quotes quite bold because they were strong statements and needed a corresponding look
You are literally what you think
As you can see I also enlarged and used an emphasizing color for the most important words in the quote to push home the essence of the message
If you have ever seen any of manifestos that top business critic Tom Peters writes yoursquoll see a similar very edgy choice of font color and emphasis His manifestos are quite brilliant
Irsquom sure yours will be too So many choices you can make other than Courier Times and straight left and right justified formatting
ldquoTime flies when I writerdquo- Angela Treat Lyon
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Your finished bookmdashA Recap
Write You have written your text collected your quotes illustrations and other supporting material
Edit You have made sure your spelling and other text errors are eliminated
Format You have formatted your text using the guidelines set out in the beginning of this book using your favorite ONE OR TWO mdashand no moremdasheasy-to-read fonts
Fonts Be very sparing of fancy font usage If used too much they only serve to distract from your writing and some can be quite unreadable
Fancy fonts have no place in articles or books unless they are meant to be more decorative than functionalmdashperhaps as part of a heading or chapter title
Photos and other You have inserted your supporting materials in the correct positions
Tweak You have tweaked your formatting to allow captions and titles for photos or illustrations or charts if need be
White space Yoursquove got white space around all your graphs illustrations and photos and some good margins for notes
So ultimately (and in accordance with the ldquolookrdquo you give your book with fonts and illustration) your book or article might look like this
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Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
Writing articles for free publicity
What do you write aboutText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text
text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text
ldquoYoursquore writing whatrdquo
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text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Add your quote here like this
ldquoPut your future in good handsyour ownrdquo
Mark Victor Hansen
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
The End
copy Renalda Whodewhat 2006 All rights reserved You may feel free to use this article in your newsletter or ezine upon the condition that you agree keep 100 of the text illustrations and links intact Thanks TheUltimateWebsitecom RenaldaTheUltimateWebsitecom
________________________
Thatrsquos it Now go write edit build publish and sell your beautiful clear intelligently written books and articles
On the following pages I have listed all kinds of support andresources that I and my other writer-friends use
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Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
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Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
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Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
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Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
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This is really important Donrsquot bother to take the time to format your writing yetmdashyoursquoll change it later guaranteed No matter how great it looks now you will want to make changes Yoursquoll waste time if you have to redo what you have formattedYoursquoll also tend to not want to change what needs correction or repositioning just because it looks so good and you donrsquot want to bother
Donrsquot indent make bold or italics right now Save all that for the final drafts Yoursquoll be going over what you wrote again at least three timesmdashconservativelymdashyou can add the bold text points italics quotes photos and illustrations then
2 Book Organization
First comes the number of the chapter then your chapter title then your subtitle if necessary
Headers and subheaders break your text up into segments for chun-ked-down reading and easy visual reference
If you plan out and write your book this way you wonrsquot have to take the time later on to figure out what sentence or phrases to use for the headers and subheaders
Here is how I set this book up
Chapter numberTitle Subtitle
(leave 3 text-size spaces between titles and subheaders)
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Header (leave 1 text-size space here)Subheader Text text text
I use Palatino for my text font It as well as Arial and Tahome has proven to be popular because it is clear black and very readable even when reduced in size Donrsquot use a font like Courier which looks grade-schoolish or Americana which appears light and very grey on screen and hard to read You want to make your writing easy to read Any strain and your reader will stop reading put the book down and not return Some say use Courier to imitate the look of a typewritermdashin truth though using Courier makes your writing look outdated
Herersquos how your chapter number title and subtitle will look formatted
Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
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(leave 3 text-size spaces between titles and subheaders)
Writing articles for free publicity(leave 1 text-size space here)How to begin your articleText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
3 Structure
a Tell lsquoem what yoursquore going to tell lsquoem
ExampleIrsquom going to tell you how to together put a great looking easy-to-read book so you can make books sell them and make residual income
b Tell lsquoem 5 (or more) points yoursquoll discuss
Example (and use a nice looking bullet)Herersquos what Irsquom going to talk about How to write books How to find public domain works to use How to structure your marketing program How to set up websites and affiliate programs What to do with your money once you get it so it works for you and not you for it
OrHerersquos what Irsquom going to talk about How I used to suffer from suicidal depression How I decided to change no matter what How I searched and researched non-stop
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How I found and became certified in EFT How you too can have success and enjoy being not only pros-perous but able to help so many people
c Write out each point and a supporting paragraph
Similarly yoursquoll write your book point by point each point can be a whole chapter rather than just a paragraph
Example I used to be a broke depressed starving artistSupporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text
Make paragraphs and sentences short for ease of readingblah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc
I made the decision to change no matter whatSupporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah etc text blah blah blah etc
I spent several years in tremendous research into energy tech-niques and internet marketing strategies
Supporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah
I learned and was certified in EFT and I learned how to market my books products and classes on the internetSupporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah
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As a now-successful energy practitioner I use the vast array of avail-able internet tools and technology to market my transformational and wealth-building services and products It allows me to be found by those who need them and makes it easy for me to teach them how to do the same thing as well
Supporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc
d Summarize tell lsquoem what you told lsquoem
ExampleNow you know how someone who was suicidal for the most part of 35 yearsmdashalmost half her lifemdashhas created a happy more fulfilling life that she can wake up happy about every morning
And how she uses the internet to build and expand her business and contacts so she can do more of what she loves to do have a great time helping folks live their dreams and spend more personal time at the beach
e Sell without selling
Within the text mention your product service or book by name WITHOUT selling
Example ldquoIn my book ldquoChange your Mindrdquo I make the point that you can eliminate or relieve pain by a simple tapping with your fingertips Itrsquos this technique that helped me get rid of my 35-year suicidal depression (Change Your Mind here)
ldquoDepression can be so debilitating that onersquos chemical balance can be so thrown out of whack itrsquos impossible to think straight In this conditionrdquo And so on
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See how I used a conversational tone to perk up the interest of someone who suffers depression Readers find themselves wanting to see the book but I havenrsquot done a hard sell
You have to create curiosity and empathy so they feel with you and want for themselves what yoursquove gotten or done
f Contact information for articles
IMPERATIVE Include your contact informationExample of text to add the end of your article
ANGELA TREAT LYON bull LyonRich-RadiocomEFTBookscom PIGEEScom Rich-Radiocom
EFT and Wealth Creation Training Books and other ProductsYou may use this article only in its entirety and with complete
contact information included
For print booksAdd any resources you want to include on the bookrsquos last page contact information lists of products lists of links to business or friendsrsquo websites and affiliate links (which you can also sprinkle into the text if appropriate) etc If itrsquos bound for a website use live links httpwwwPIGEEScom instead of PIGEEScom
You might want to add a prologue an addendum bibliography ap-pendices references cross-references and other types of indicesmdashyou name it
4 Header and footer
At the top of each page place your bookrsquos title at the bottom your copyright and contact information
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Why If yoursquore making an ebook that a person will be printing out you want to make sure that even if the pages are shuffled around or get blown into a tornado they have the following items placed on them in a way that is easy-to-find and integrated with the design
The title of the book The copy copyright sign your name and date of copyright The page number Your website andor contact information All rights reserved
You can have a lot of fun with the footer In this particular series of books I stayed pretty conservative But in other books Irsquove built I went hog-wild Take a look at the footer of the book I built for Rebecca Marina and me to give away 10 Tips to Make People Like You in 30 Seconds or Less
And here is the one I used for one of my own books From Starving to Full Speed Ahead
Granted these are not your ordinary run-of-the-mill footers But they do provide the information I want to convey and are unique design elements that add to the quality of my writing the look of the books and even emphasize the topics themselves
IMPORTANT NOTE Make sure there is NO TEXT less than 5rdquo from left or right edge (I like to leave 75rdquo) and 312rdquo at the top and 5rdquo at bottom as your text may get trimmed off when printed pages are cut to size and bound if you use full page (A4 or 85rdquo x 11rdquo) formats
copy Rebecca Marina 2005 9 CelebrationHealingcomAll rights reserved
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5 Spelling amp punctuation can make or break your credibility
Print this section out and keep it near when you write It will save your butt more times than yoursquoll ever believe
a Sounds silly but remember to use Spellcheck
Andmdasheven though you have diligently gone through and corrected with Spellcheck make sure your word usage is correct
b Pay careful attention to these words your and yoursquore there and their its and itrsquos Spell check wonrsquot find or correct them
When you say ldquoThere house burned downrdquo you look like an idiot and lose credibility Immediately No matter who you are or how popular or how much money you make
When you say ldquoTheir house burned downrdquo no one noticesmdash because itrsquos correct Mistakes are mind-stoppers Mistakes make the reader stop comprehending what he is reading to think about what was said so his eyes continuemdashbut miss the message
Avoid mind-stoppers that stop your readersrsquo train of thought by making them have to stop and figure out what you meant making them think you are uneducated and making them wonder if you are as smart as you claim to be if you make mistakes like this
WRONG ldquoYour going to the storerdquoRIGHT ldquoYoursquore going to the storerdquo
WRONG ldquoYoursquore computer just blew uprdquoRIGHT ldquoYour computer just blew uprdquo
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WRONG ldquoIts about timerdquoRIGHT ldquoItrsquos about timerdquo
WRONG Seeing itrsquos nose surprised meRIGHT Seeing its nose surprised me
Its and itrsquos seem backwards from how we think they ought to logically be used We think itrsquos ought to be possessive But it isnrsquot Herersquos why
Itrsquos is a contractionmdasha shorteningmdashof it and is
Its is the possessive form Example Its head was green and pointed(NOT Itrsquos head)
WRONG Itrsquos foot got stuck itrsquos memory card was shot RIGHT Its foot got stuck its memory card was shot
Correct Contraction Itrsquos hotCorrect Possessive Its nose burned from the heat
Be really careful because in the wrong places the incorrect use of these words will totally undermine your credibility and radically reduce the faith and trust yoursquore trying to build in your readers
c Apostrophe overload Possession and plurals
The incorrect use of the possessive form to make things or persons pluralmdashmore than onemdashgets me ranting every time as in They said their horsersquos went over the hill
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NO They said their horsersquos went over the hillThis lsquos indicates possession Horses over the hill donrsquot own anything here
YES They said their horses went over the hill PluralYES ldquoThe horsesrsquo tails were flying as they ran over the hillrdquo is correct Possessivemdashthe tails they own are flying
NO There are resourcersquos in the boxThere are resources in the box Resources donrsquot own anything here
YES There are resources in the box PluralYES ldquoThe resourcersquos best part is rdquo is correct Possessive - the best part of the resource NO Breakthroughrsquos In PersuasionBreakthroughs donrsquot own anything here
YES Breakthroughs In Persuasion PluralYES ldquoMy breakthroughrsquos worst part was when such and such happenedrdquo that usage would be correct Possessive
Do you see the difference
And YES lsquo90s MP3s CDs NO lsquo90rsquos MP3rsquos CDrsquosThe form to use to show a person or thing possessing is Samrsquos hat the carrsquos door Arnoldrsquos accent Motherrsquos skirt the bookrsquos chapter headings Plural Possession The horsesrsquo tails
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d Punctuation
So many people blow this one
1 To indicate a pause use a comma not WRONG If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it RIGHT If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it
WRONG When he went away she became lonelyRIGHT When he went away she became lonely
2 When using quotes punctuation goes INSIDE themWRONG She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo RIGHT She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo
However if an end-word is in quotations the punctuation goes outside the quote marksWRONG Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquoRIGHT Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquo
e Pauses
Copywriters are told ldquoWrite like you speak so you can sound famil-iarrdquo But contrary to what people say when you write like you speak you need to remember that a pause in speech is not structured the same as a pause in writing
WRONG Now you have to remember when you leave the door open the flies come inRIGHT Now you have to remember that when you leave the door open the flies come in
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f Spacing
One space between sentences It used to be two now itrsquos OK to use only one
6 Hisher theytheir
Herersquos what most people write If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See anything wrong with that
Probably not because this incorrect usage is so prevalent
Here is how it ought to be writtenIf a person wants he can leave his shoes out front
Take this sentence apart If A person wants to THEY can leave
What How did ONE person become THEY
However most of us donrsquot want to hassle over whether to say he or she him or her or hers or his
Therersquos a way to get around that
Herersquos how we say it wrongWRONG If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See how weird that is Since when is one person a ldquotheyrdquoRIGHT ldquoIf PEOPLE want THEY can leave their shoes out frontrdquo That is much more congruent See PEOPLE THEY
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Itrsquos either ONE person (says) he or she (thinks this or that)OR
PEOPLE (say) THEY (think this or that)
7 The correct usage of dots
Within a sentence use three dots to indicate that some part of a text is missing as in a quote from someoneWhen she saw thatshe really looked worried
At the end of a sentence use four dots to indicate something miss-ing or simply left to the imaginationThen he walked down into the foggy valley
Avoid using dots to indicate a pause within the sentence
8 Whom and who
I think whoever (NOT whomever) started dredging up the word ldquowhomrdquo a few years ago ought to be shot
Perhaps it started in a movie script written by someone who wanted the character to seem educated I donrsquot know
But every time I hear someone ay ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo my guts shrivel I donrsquot think there is any other word as badly misused Did you know that the way whom ought to be used is
ldquoWith whom are you going to the partyrdquo
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BUTmdashare you really going to say that I donrsquot think so
We want to sound intelligent yes But not stilted
We say more commonly ldquoWho are you going withrdquo
The whole flap is because we arenrsquot supposed to have those ldquodangling participlesrdquo at the end of our sentence or question Like ldquoWho are you going withrdquo Or ldquoWhorsquod you give it tordquo
When you say ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo yoursquore making not only one blunder but a double blunder Poor old Miss Pine your ninth-grade very correct English teacher would do spin cycles in her grave Whom is used incorrectly and therersquos that dumb dangling participle
Herersquos how to use the ldquowhomrdquo wordNO ldquoWhom are you going withrdquoYES ldquoWith whom are you goingrdquo
OK If you just canrsquot get yourself to say that then say ldquoWho are you going withrdquo At least that sounds less stilted and no matter that the ldquowithrdquo dangles
Before you start writing copy for an ad or writing your book choose the group to whom you are writing (seemdashdoesnrsquot that sound good) Do you want to sound casual Or is it more important to sound educated or business-likemdashor even stilted Maybe your bookrsquos character is supposed to sound stilted Itrsquos important to know how to choose so you can choose
If casual use ldquoWho are you going withrdquo or ldquogive tordquo
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If business use ldquowith whomrdquo or ldquoto whomrdquo
NO ldquoThe president whom you were seen with last nightrdquoYES ldquoThe president with whom you were seenrdquo OK ldquoThe president who you were seen with last nightrdquo
NO ldquoMartha whom he danced with in 1978 met himrdquoYES ldquoMartha with whom he danced in 1978 met himrdquoOK ldquoMartha who he danced with in 1978 met himrdquo
NO ldquoDr Jacobs whom he dedicated the book tordquoYES ldquoDr Jacobs to whom he dedicated the bookrdquoOK ldquoDr Jacobs who he dedicated the book tordquo
(Understand please OK means the usage is OK but certainly not great and still would make Miss Pine [to whom these things were most important] suffer even if she has been gone all these years)
9 Placement of illustrations amp quotes
If you have places within the text where an illustration will go when the book or article is complete write your draft like this
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on After the end of your paragraph right here leave room for your to-be-added photo or illustration and make appropriatenotes to indicate to yourself or your assistant what goes here like this
Illustration 3 hereOptional title of photo here
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phot
o M
elis
sa Ir
elan
d
Credits Photo or art credit goes here small or at 90 degrees to pageAlso make sure you have filed the relevant photo so you can find it easily so itrsquos ready to insert into your almost-final drafts
Only format the text to fit around your illustration after your text is finalized This is really important If you insert all your images prematurely when you delete add or change text they will each also have to be adjusted
Hold off Be patient Itrsquos worth itmdashyoursquoll literally save yourself HOURS of readjusting Wait until your text is done before you insert your images When your text is final and you have inserted the image it can look like this one does See how the image sits nicely within the body of the text with that nice
white space around it lots of room for it to breathe
Quotes Make a place for a quote within your text indicating where it goes like this
Leave two lines between the text and the quoteIndicate quote here
When you format make the font a bit larger more bold or italic or centered
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on and so on
There are as many ways to include quotes as there are people writing books I like to leave two line spaces before and after the quote and I center it in boldmdashor as in this book in a font that naturally aligns in appearance with the title font
Like this
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Time flies when I write
Others like to put their quote on the margin moving the text over a bit or in a box or in a space indented into the text just the way
this little example is or the way the image on the previous page looks
In the books I designed for EFT Master Rue Hass recently I made the quotes quite bold because they were strong statements and needed a corresponding look
You are literally what you think
As you can see I also enlarged and used an emphasizing color for the most important words in the quote to push home the essence of the message
If you have ever seen any of manifestos that top business critic Tom Peters writes yoursquoll see a similar very edgy choice of font color and emphasis His manifestos are quite brilliant
Irsquom sure yours will be too So many choices you can make other than Courier Times and straight left and right justified formatting
ldquoTime flies when I writerdquo- Angela Treat Lyon
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Your finished bookmdashA Recap
Write You have written your text collected your quotes illustrations and other supporting material
Edit You have made sure your spelling and other text errors are eliminated
Format You have formatted your text using the guidelines set out in the beginning of this book using your favorite ONE OR TWO mdashand no moremdasheasy-to-read fonts
Fonts Be very sparing of fancy font usage If used too much they only serve to distract from your writing and some can be quite unreadable
Fancy fonts have no place in articles or books unless they are meant to be more decorative than functionalmdashperhaps as part of a heading or chapter title
Photos and other You have inserted your supporting materials in the correct positions
Tweak You have tweaked your formatting to allow captions and titles for photos or illustrations or charts if need be
White space Yoursquove got white space around all your graphs illustrations and photos and some good margins for notes
So ultimately (and in accordance with the ldquolookrdquo you give your book with fonts and illustration) your book or article might look like this
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Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
Writing articles for free publicity
What do you write aboutText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text
text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text
ldquoYoursquore writing whatrdquo
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text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Add your quote here like this
ldquoPut your future in good handsyour ownrdquo
Mark Victor Hansen
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
The End
copy Renalda Whodewhat 2006 All rights reserved You may feel free to use this article in your newsletter or ezine upon the condition that you agree keep 100 of the text illustrations and links intact Thanks TheUltimateWebsitecom RenaldaTheUltimateWebsitecom
________________________
Thatrsquos it Now go write edit build publish and sell your beautiful clear intelligently written books and articles
On the following pages I have listed all kinds of support andresources that I and my other writer-friends use
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Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
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Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
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Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
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Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
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Header (leave 1 text-size space here)Subheader Text text text
I use Palatino for my text font It as well as Arial and Tahome has proven to be popular because it is clear black and very readable even when reduced in size Donrsquot use a font like Courier which looks grade-schoolish or Americana which appears light and very grey on screen and hard to read You want to make your writing easy to read Any strain and your reader will stop reading put the book down and not return Some say use Courier to imitate the look of a typewritermdashin truth though using Courier makes your writing look outdated
Herersquos how your chapter number title and subtitle will look formatted
Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
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(leave 3 text-size spaces between titles and subheaders)
Writing articles for free publicity(leave 1 text-size space here)How to begin your articleText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
3 Structure
a Tell lsquoem what yoursquore going to tell lsquoem
ExampleIrsquom going to tell you how to together put a great looking easy-to-read book so you can make books sell them and make residual income
b Tell lsquoem 5 (or more) points yoursquoll discuss
Example (and use a nice looking bullet)Herersquos what Irsquom going to talk about How to write books How to find public domain works to use How to structure your marketing program How to set up websites and affiliate programs What to do with your money once you get it so it works for you and not you for it
OrHerersquos what Irsquom going to talk about How I used to suffer from suicidal depression How I decided to change no matter what How I searched and researched non-stop
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How I found and became certified in EFT How you too can have success and enjoy being not only pros-perous but able to help so many people
c Write out each point and a supporting paragraph
Similarly yoursquoll write your book point by point each point can be a whole chapter rather than just a paragraph
Example I used to be a broke depressed starving artistSupporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text
Make paragraphs and sentences short for ease of readingblah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc
I made the decision to change no matter whatSupporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah etc text blah blah blah etc
I spent several years in tremendous research into energy tech-niques and internet marketing strategies
Supporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah
I learned and was certified in EFT and I learned how to market my books products and classes on the internetSupporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah
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As a now-successful energy practitioner I use the vast array of avail-able internet tools and technology to market my transformational and wealth-building services and products It allows me to be found by those who need them and makes it easy for me to teach them how to do the same thing as well
Supporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc
d Summarize tell lsquoem what you told lsquoem
ExampleNow you know how someone who was suicidal for the most part of 35 yearsmdashalmost half her lifemdashhas created a happy more fulfilling life that she can wake up happy about every morning
And how she uses the internet to build and expand her business and contacts so she can do more of what she loves to do have a great time helping folks live their dreams and spend more personal time at the beach
e Sell without selling
Within the text mention your product service or book by name WITHOUT selling
Example ldquoIn my book ldquoChange your Mindrdquo I make the point that you can eliminate or relieve pain by a simple tapping with your fingertips Itrsquos this technique that helped me get rid of my 35-year suicidal depression (Change Your Mind here)
ldquoDepression can be so debilitating that onersquos chemical balance can be so thrown out of whack itrsquos impossible to think straight In this conditionrdquo And so on
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See how I used a conversational tone to perk up the interest of someone who suffers depression Readers find themselves wanting to see the book but I havenrsquot done a hard sell
You have to create curiosity and empathy so they feel with you and want for themselves what yoursquove gotten or done
f Contact information for articles
IMPERATIVE Include your contact informationExample of text to add the end of your article
ANGELA TREAT LYON bull LyonRich-RadiocomEFTBookscom PIGEEScom Rich-Radiocom
EFT and Wealth Creation Training Books and other ProductsYou may use this article only in its entirety and with complete
contact information included
For print booksAdd any resources you want to include on the bookrsquos last page contact information lists of products lists of links to business or friendsrsquo websites and affiliate links (which you can also sprinkle into the text if appropriate) etc If itrsquos bound for a website use live links httpwwwPIGEEScom instead of PIGEEScom
You might want to add a prologue an addendum bibliography ap-pendices references cross-references and other types of indicesmdashyou name it
4 Header and footer
At the top of each page place your bookrsquos title at the bottom your copyright and contact information
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Why If yoursquore making an ebook that a person will be printing out you want to make sure that even if the pages are shuffled around or get blown into a tornado they have the following items placed on them in a way that is easy-to-find and integrated with the design
The title of the book The copy copyright sign your name and date of copyright The page number Your website andor contact information All rights reserved
You can have a lot of fun with the footer In this particular series of books I stayed pretty conservative But in other books Irsquove built I went hog-wild Take a look at the footer of the book I built for Rebecca Marina and me to give away 10 Tips to Make People Like You in 30 Seconds or Less
And here is the one I used for one of my own books From Starving to Full Speed Ahead
Granted these are not your ordinary run-of-the-mill footers But they do provide the information I want to convey and are unique design elements that add to the quality of my writing the look of the books and even emphasize the topics themselves
IMPORTANT NOTE Make sure there is NO TEXT less than 5rdquo from left or right edge (I like to leave 75rdquo) and 312rdquo at the top and 5rdquo at bottom as your text may get trimmed off when printed pages are cut to size and bound if you use full page (A4 or 85rdquo x 11rdquo) formats
copy Rebecca Marina 2005 9 CelebrationHealingcomAll rights reserved
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5 Spelling amp punctuation can make or break your credibility
Print this section out and keep it near when you write It will save your butt more times than yoursquoll ever believe
a Sounds silly but remember to use Spellcheck
Andmdasheven though you have diligently gone through and corrected with Spellcheck make sure your word usage is correct
b Pay careful attention to these words your and yoursquore there and their its and itrsquos Spell check wonrsquot find or correct them
When you say ldquoThere house burned downrdquo you look like an idiot and lose credibility Immediately No matter who you are or how popular or how much money you make
When you say ldquoTheir house burned downrdquo no one noticesmdash because itrsquos correct Mistakes are mind-stoppers Mistakes make the reader stop comprehending what he is reading to think about what was said so his eyes continuemdashbut miss the message
Avoid mind-stoppers that stop your readersrsquo train of thought by making them have to stop and figure out what you meant making them think you are uneducated and making them wonder if you are as smart as you claim to be if you make mistakes like this
WRONG ldquoYour going to the storerdquoRIGHT ldquoYoursquore going to the storerdquo
WRONG ldquoYoursquore computer just blew uprdquoRIGHT ldquoYour computer just blew uprdquo
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WRONG ldquoIts about timerdquoRIGHT ldquoItrsquos about timerdquo
WRONG Seeing itrsquos nose surprised meRIGHT Seeing its nose surprised me
Its and itrsquos seem backwards from how we think they ought to logically be used We think itrsquos ought to be possessive But it isnrsquot Herersquos why
Itrsquos is a contractionmdasha shorteningmdashof it and is
Its is the possessive form Example Its head was green and pointed(NOT Itrsquos head)
WRONG Itrsquos foot got stuck itrsquos memory card was shot RIGHT Its foot got stuck its memory card was shot
Correct Contraction Itrsquos hotCorrect Possessive Its nose burned from the heat
Be really careful because in the wrong places the incorrect use of these words will totally undermine your credibility and radically reduce the faith and trust yoursquore trying to build in your readers
c Apostrophe overload Possession and plurals
The incorrect use of the possessive form to make things or persons pluralmdashmore than onemdashgets me ranting every time as in They said their horsersquos went over the hill
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NO They said their horsersquos went over the hillThis lsquos indicates possession Horses over the hill donrsquot own anything here
YES They said their horses went over the hill PluralYES ldquoThe horsesrsquo tails were flying as they ran over the hillrdquo is correct Possessivemdashthe tails they own are flying
NO There are resourcersquos in the boxThere are resources in the box Resources donrsquot own anything here
YES There are resources in the box PluralYES ldquoThe resourcersquos best part is rdquo is correct Possessive - the best part of the resource NO Breakthroughrsquos In PersuasionBreakthroughs donrsquot own anything here
YES Breakthroughs In Persuasion PluralYES ldquoMy breakthroughrsquos worst part was when such and such happenedrdquo that usage would be correct Possessive
Do you see the difference
And YES lsquo90s MP3s CDs NO lsquo90rsquos MP3rsquos CDrsquosThe form to use to show a person or thing possessing is Samrsquos hat the carrsquos door Arnoldrsquos accent Motherrsquos skirt the bookrsquos chapter headings Plural Possession The horsesrsquo tails
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d Punctuation
So many people blow this one
1 To indicate a pause use a comma not WRONG If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it RIGHT If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it
WRONG When he went away she became lonelyRIGHT When he went away she became lonely
2 When using quotes punctuation goes INSIDE themWRONG She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo RIGHT She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo
However if an end-word is in quotations the punctuation goes outside the quote marksWRONG Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquoRIGHT Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquo
e Pauses
Copywriters are told ldquoWrite like you speak so you can sound famil-iarrdquo But contrary to what people say when you write like you speak you need to remember that a pause in speech is not structured the same as a pause in writing
WRONG Now you have to remember when you leave the door open the flies come inRIGHT Now you have to remember that when you leave the door open the flies come in
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f Spacing
One space between sentences It used to be two now itrsquos OK to use only one
6 Hisher theytheir
Herersquos what most people write If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See anything wrong with that
Probably not because this incorrect usage is so prevalent
Here is how it ought to be writtenIf a person wants he can leave his shoes out front
Take this sentence apart If A person wants to THEY can leave
What How did ONE person become THEY
However most of us donrsquot want to hassle over whether to say he or she him or her or hers or his
Therersquos a way to get around that
Herersquos how we say it wrongWRONG If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See how weird that is Since when is one person a ldquotheyrdquoRIGHT ldquoIf PEOPLE want THEY can leave their shoes out frontrdquo That is much more congruent See PEOPLE THEY
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Itrsquos either ONE person (says) he or she (thinks this or that)OR
PEOPLE (say) THEY (think this or that)
7 The correct usage of dots
Within a sentence use three dots to indicate that some part of a text is missing as in a quote from someoneWhen she saw thatshe really looked worried
At the end of a sentence use four dots to indicate something miss-ing or simply left to the imaginationThen he walked down into the foggy valley
Avoid using dots to indicate a pause within the sentence
8 Whom and who
I think whoever (NOT whomever) started dredging up the word ldquowhomrdquo a few years ago ought to be shot
Perhaps it started in a movie script written by someone who wanted the character to seem educated I donrsquot know
But every time I hear someone ay ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo my guts shrivel I donrsquot think there is any other word as badly misused Did you know that the way whom ought to be used is
ldquoWith whom are you going to the partyrdquo
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BUTmdashare you really going to say that I donrsquot think so
We want to sound intelligent yes But not stilted
We say more commonly ldquoWho are you going withrdquo
The whole flap is because we arenrsquot supposed to have those ldquodangling participlesrdquo at the end of our sentence or question Like ldquoWho are you going withrdquo Or ldquoWhorsquod you give it tordquo
When you say ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo yoursquore making not only one blunder but a double blunder Poor old Miss Pine your ninth-grade very correct English teacher would do spin cycles in her grave Whom is used incorrectly and therersquos that dumb dangling participle
Herersquos how to use the ldquowhomrdquo wordNO ldquoWhom are you going withrdquoYES ldquoWith whom are you goingrdquo
OK If you just canrsquot get yourself to say that then say ldquoWho are you going withrdquo At least that sounds less stilted and no matter that the ldquowithrdquo dangles
Before you start writing copy for an ad or writing your book choose the group to whom you are writing (seemdashdoesnrsquot that sound good) Do you want to sound casual Or is it more important to sound educated or business-likemdashor even stilted Maybe your bookrsquos character is supposed to sound stilted Itrsquos important to know how to choose so you can choose
If casual use ldquoWho are you going withrdquo or ldquogive tordquo
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If business use ldquowith whomrdquo or ldquoto whomrdquo
NO ldquoThe president whom you were seen with last nightrdquoYES ldquoThe president with whom you were seenrdquo OK ldquoThe president who you were seen with last nightrdquo
NO ldquoMartha whom he danced with in 1978 met himrdquoYES ldquoMartha with whom he danced in 1978 met himrdquoOK ldquoMartha who he danced with in 1978 met himrdquo
NO ldquoDr Jacobs whom he dedicated the book tordquoYES ldquoDr Jacobs to whom he dedicated the bookrdquoOK ldquoDr Jacobs who he dedicated the book tordquo
(Understand please OK means the usage is OK but certainly not great and still would make Miss Pine [to whom these things were most important] suffer even if she has been gone all these years)
9 Placement of illustrations amp quotes
If you have places within the text where an illustration will go when the book or article is complete write your draft like this
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on After the end of your paragraph right here leave room for your to-be-added photo or illustration and make appropriatenotes to indicate to yourself or your assistant what goes here like this
Illustration 3 hereOptional title of photo here
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phot
o M
elis
sa Ir
elan
d
Credits Photo or art credit goes here small or at 90 degrees to pageAlso make sure you have filed the relevant photo so you can find it easily so itrsquos ready to insert into your almost-final drafts
Only format the text to fit around your illustration after your text is finalized This is really important If you insert all your images prematurely when you delete add or change text they will each also have to be adjusted
Hold off Be patient Itrsquos worth itmdashyoursquoll literally save yourself HOURS of readjusting Wait until your text is done before you insert your images When your text is final and you have inserted the image it can look like this one does See how the image sits nicely within the body of the text with that nice
white space around it lots of room for it to breathe
Quotes Make a place for a quote within your text indicating where it goes like this
Leave two lines between the text and the quoteIndicate quote here
When you format make the font a bit larger more bold or italic or centered
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on and so on
There are as many ways to include quotes as there are people writing books I like to leave two line spaces before and after the quote and I center it in boldmdashor as in this book in a font that naturally aligns in appearance with the title font
Like this
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Time flies when I write
Others like to put their quote on the margin moving the text over a bit or in a box or in a space indented into the text just the way
this little example is or the way the image on the previous page looks
In the books I designed for EFT Master Rue Hass recently I made the quotes quite bold because they were strong statements and needed a corresponding look
You are literally what you think
As you can see I also enlarged and used an emphasizing color for the most important words in the quote to push home the essence of the message
If you have ever seen any of manifestos that top business critic Tom Peters writes yoursquoll see a similar very edgy choice of font color and emphasis His manifestos are quite brilliant
Irsquom sure yours will be too So many choices you can make other than Courier Times and straight left and right justified formatting
ldquoTime flies when I writerdquo- Angela Treat Lyon
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Your finished bookmdashA Recap
Write You have written your text collected your quotes illustrations and other supporting material
Edit You have made sure your spelling and other text errors are eliminated
Format You have formatted your text using the guidelines set out in the beginning of this book using your favorite ONE OR TWO mdashand no moremdasheasy-to-read fonts
Fonts Be very sparing of fancy font usage If used too much they only serve to distract from your writing and some can be quite unreadable
Fancy fonts have no place in articles or books unless they are meant to be more decorative than functionalmdashperhaps as part of a heading or chapter title
Photos and other You have inserted your supporting materials in the correct positions
Tweak You have tweaked your formatting to allow captions and titles for photos or illustrations or charts if need be
White space Yoursquove got white space around all your graphs illustrations and photos and some good margins for notes
So ultimately (and in accordance with the ldquolookrdquo you give your book with fonts and illustration) your book or article might look like this
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Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
Writing articles for free publicity
What do you write aboutText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text
text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text
ldquoYoursquore writing whatrdquo
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text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Add your quote here like this
ldquoPut your future in good handsyour ownrdquo
Mark Victor Hansen
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
The End
copy Renalda Whodewhat 2006 All rights reserved You may feel free to use this article in your newsletter or ezine upon the condition that you agree keep 100 of the text illustrations and links intact Thanks TheUltimateWebsitecom RenaldaTheUltimateWebsitecom
________________________
Thatrsquos it Now go write edit build publish and sell your beautiful clear intelligently written books and articles
On the following pages I have listed all kinds of support andresources that I and my other writer-friends use
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Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
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Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
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Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
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Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
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(leave 3 text-size spaces between titles and subheaders)
Writing articles for free publicity(leave 1 text-size space here)How to begin your articleText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
3 Structure
a Tell lsquoem what yoursquore going to tell lsquoem
ExampleIrsquom going to tell you how to together put a great looking easy-to-read book so you can make books sell them and make residual income
b Tell lsquoem 5 (or more) points yoursquoll discuss
Example (and use a nice looking bullet)Herersquos what Irsquom going to talk about How to write books How to find public domain works to use How to structure your marketing program How to set up websites and affiliate programs What to do with your money once you get it so it works for you and not you for it
OrHerersquos what Irsquom going to talk about How I used to suffer from suicidal depression How I decided to change no matter what How I searched and researched non-stop
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How I found and became certified in EFT How you too can have success and enjoy being not only pros-perous but able to help so many people
c Write out each point and a supporting paragraph
Similarly yoursquoll write your book point by point each point can be a whole chapter rather than just a paragraph
Example I used to be a broke depressed starving artistSupporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text
Make paragraphs and sentences short for ease of readingblah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc
I made the decision to change no matter whatSupporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah etc text blah blah blah etc
I spent several years in tremendous research into energy tech-niques and internet marketing strategies
Supporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah
I learned and was certified in EFT and I learned how to market my books products and classes on the internetSupporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah
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As a now-successful energy practitioner I use the vast array of avail-able internet tools and technology to market my transformational and wealth-building services and products It allows me to be found by those who need them and makes it easy for me to teach them how to do the same thing as well
Supporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc
d Summarize tell lsquoem what you told lsquoem
ExampleNow you know how someone who was suicidal for the most part of 35 yearsmdashalmost half her lifemdashhas created a happy more fulfilling life that she can wake up happy about every morning
And how she uses the internet to build and expand her business and contacts so she can do more of what she loves to do have a great time helping folks live their dreams and spend more personal time at the beach
e Sell without selling
Within the text mention your product service or book by name WITHOUT selling
Example ldquoIn my book ldquoChange your Mindrdquo I make the point that you can eliminate or relieve pain by a simple tapping with your fingertips Itrsquos this technique that helped me get rid of my 35-year suicidal depression (Change Your Mind here)
ldquoDepression can be so debilitating that onersquos chemical balance can be so thrown out of whack itrsquos impossible to think straight In this conditionrdquo And so on
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See how I used a conversational tone to perk up the interest of someone who suffers depression Readers find themselves wanting to see the book but I havenrsquot done a hard sell
You have to create curiosity and empathy so they feel with you and want for themselves what yoursquove gotten or done
f Contact information for articles
IMPERATIVE Include your contact informationExample of text to add the end of your article
ANGELA TREAT LYON bull LyonRich-RadiocomEFTBookscom PIGEEScom Rich-Radiocom
EFT and Wealth Creation Training Books and other ProductsYou may use this article only in its entirety and with complete
contact information included
For print booksAdd any resources you want to include on the bookrsquos last page contact information lists of products lists of links to business or friendsrsquo websites and affiliate links (which you can also sprinkle into the text if appropriate) etc If itrsquos bound for a website use live links httpwwwPIGEEScom instead of PIGEEScom
You might want to add a prologue an addendum bibliography ap-pendices references cross-references and other types of indicesmdashyou name it
4 Header and footer
At the top of each page place your bookrsquos title at the bottom your copyright and contact information
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Why If yoursquore making an ebook that a person will be printing out you want to make sure that even if the pages are shuffled around or get blown into a tornado they have the following items placed on them in a way that is easy-to-find and integrated with the design
The title of the book The copy copyright sign your name and date of copyright The page number Your website andor contact information All rights reserved
You can have a lot of fun with the footer In this particular series of books I stayed pretty conservative But in other books Irsquove built I went hog-wild Take a look at the footer of the book I built for Rebecca Marina and me to give away 10 Tips to Make People Like You in 30 Seconds or Less
And here is the one I used for one of my own books From Starving to Full Speed Ahead
Granted these are not your ordinary run-of-the-mill footers But they do provide the information I want to convey and are unique design elements that add to the quality of my writing the look of the books and even emphasize the topics themselves
IMPORTANT NOTE Make sure there is NO TEXT less than 5rdquo from left or right edge (I like to leave 75rdquo) and 312rdquo at the top and 5rdquo at bottom as your text may get trimmed off when printed pages are cut to size and bound if you use full page (A4 or 85rdquo x 11rdquo) formats
copy Rebecca Marina 2005 9 CelebrationHealingcomAll rights reserved
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5 Spelling amp punctuation can make or break your credibility
Print this section out and keep it near when you write It will save your butt more times than yoursquoll ever believe
a Sounds silly but remember to use Spellcheck
Andmdasheven though you have diligently gone through and corrected with Spellcheck make sure your word usage is correct
b Pay careful attention to these words your and yoursquore there and their its and itrsquos Spell check wonrsquot find or correct them
When you say ldquoThere house burned downrdquo you look like an idiot and lose credibility Immediately No matter who you are or how popular or how much money you make
When you say ldquoTheir house burned downrdquo no one noticesmdash because itrsquos correct Mistakes are mind-stoppers Mistakes make the reader stop comprehending what he is reading to think about what was said so his eyes continuemdashbut miss the message
Avoid mind-stoppers that stop your readersrsquo train of thought by making them have to stop and figure out what you meant making them think you are uneducated and making them wonder if you are as smart as you claim to be if you make mistakes like this
WRONG ldquoYour going to the storerdquoRIGHT ldquoYoursquore going to the storerdquo
WRONG ldquoYoursquore computer just blew uprdquoRIGHT ldquoYour computer just blew uprdquo
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WRONG ldquoIts about timerdquoRIGHT ldquoItrsquos about timerdquo
WRONG Seeing itrsquos nose surprised meRIGHT Seeing its nose surprised me
Its and itrsquos seem backwards from how we think they ought to logically be used We think itrsquos ought to be possessive But it isnrsquot Herersquos why
Itrsquos is a contractionmdasha shorteningmdashof it and is
Its is the possessive form Example Its head was green and pointed(NOT Itrsquos head)
WRONG Itrsquos foot got stuck itrsquos memory card was shot RIGHT Its foot got stuck its memory card was shot
Correct Contraction Itrsquos hotCorrect Possessive Its nose burned from the heat
Be really careful because in the wrong places the incorrect use of these words will totally undermine your credibility and radically reduce the faith and trust yoursquore trying to build in your readers
c Apostrophe overload Possession and plurals
The incorrect use of the possessive form to make things or persons pluralmdashmore than onemdashgets me ranting every time as in They said their horsersquos went over the hill
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NO They said their horsersquos went over the hillThis lsquos indicates possession Horses over the hill donrsquot own anything here
YES They said their horses went over the hill PluralYES ldquoThe horsesrsquo tails were flying as they ran over the hillrdquo is correct Possessivemdashthe tails they own are flying
NO There are resourcersquos in the boxThere are resources in the box Resources donrsquot own anything here
YES There are resources in the box PluralYES ldquoThe resourcersquos best part is rdquo is correct Possessive - the best part of the resource NO Breakthroughrsquos In PersuasionBreakthroughs donrsquot own anything here
YES Breakthroughs In Persuasion PluralYES ldquoMy breakthroughrsquos worst part was when such and such happenedrdquo that usage would be correct Possessive
Do you see the difference
And YES lsquo90s MP3s CDs NO lsquo90rsquos MP3rsquos CDrsquosThe form to use to show a person or thing possessing is Samrsquos hat the carrsquos door Arnoldrsquos accent Motherrsquos skirt the bookrsquos chapter headings Plural Possession The horsesrsquo tails
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d Punctuation
So many people blow this one
1 To indicate a pause use a comma not WRONG If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it RIGHT If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it
WRONG When he went away she became lonelyRIGHT When he went away she became lonely
2 When using quotes punctuation goes INSIDE themWRONG She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo RIGHT She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo
However if an end-word is in quotations the punctuation goes outside the quote marksWRONG Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquoRIGHT Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquo
e Pauses
Copywriters are told ldquoWrite like you speak so you can sound famil-iarrdquo But contrary to what people say when you write like you speak you need to remember that a pause in speech is not structured the same as a pause in writing
WRONG Now you have to remember when you leave the door open the flies come inRIGHT Now you have to remember that when you leave the door open the flies come in
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f Spacing
One space between sentences It used to be two now itrsquos OK to use only one
6 Hisher theytheir
Herersquos what most people write If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See anything wrong with that
Probably not because this incorrect usage is so prevalent
Here is how it ought to be writtenIf a person wants he can leave his shoes out front
Take this sentence apart If A person wants to THEY can leave
What How did ONE person become THEY
However most of us donrsquot want to hassle over whether to say he or she him or her or hers or his
Therersquos a way to get around that
Herersquos how we say it wrongWRONG If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See how weird that is Since when is one person a ldquotheyrdquoRIGHT ldquoIf PEOPLE want THEY can leave their shoes out frontrdquo That is much more congruent See PEOPLE THEY
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Itrsquos either ONE person (says) he or she (thinks this or that)OR
PEOPLE (say) THEY (think this or that)
7 The correct usage of dots
Within a sentence use three dots to indicate that some part of a text is missing as in a quote from someoneWhen she saw thatshe really looked worried
At the end of a sentence use four dots to indicate something miss-ing or simply left to the imaginationThen he walked down into the foggy valley
Avoid using dots to indicate a pause within the sentence
8 Whom and who
I think whoever (NOT whomever) started dredging up the word ldquowhomrdquo a few years ago ought to be shot
Perhaps it started in a movie script written by someone who wanted the character to seem educated I donrsquot know
But every time I hear someone ay ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo my guts shrivel I donrsquot think there is any other word as badly misused Did you know that the way whom ought to be used is
ldquoWith whom are you going to the partyrdquo
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BUTmdashare you really going to say that I donrsquot think so
We want to sound intelligent yes But not stilted
We say more commonly ldquoWho are you going withrdquo
The whole flap is because we arenrsquot supposed to have those ldquodangling participlesrdquo at the end of our sentence or question Like ldquoWho are you going withrdquo Or ldquoWhorsquod you give it tordquo
When you say ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo yoursquore making not only one blunder but a double blunder Poor old Miss Pine your ninth-grade very correct English teacher would do spin cycles in her grave Whom is used incorrectly and therersquos that dumb dangling participle
Herersquos how to use the ldquowhomrdquo wordNO ldquoWhom are you going withrdquoYES ldquoWith whom are you goingrdquo
OK If you just canrsquot get yourself to say that then say ldquoWho are you going withrdquo At least that sounds less stilted and no matter that the ldquowithrdquo dangles
Before you start writing copy for an ad or writing your book choose the group to whom you are writing (seemdashdoesnrsquot that sound good) Do you want to sound casual Or is it more important to sound educated or business-likemdashor even stilted Maybe your bookrsquos character is supposed to sound stilted Itrsquos important to know how to choose so you can choose
If casual use ldquoWho are you going withrdquo or ldquogive tordquo
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If business use ldquowith whomrdquo or ldquoto whomrdquo
NO ldquoThe president whom you were seen with last nightrdquoYES ldquoThe president with whom you were seenrdquo OK ldquoThe president who you were seen with last nightrdquo
NO ldquoMartha whom he danced with in 1978 met himrdquoYES ldquoMartha with whom he danced in 1978 met himrdquoOK ldquoMartha who he danced with in 1978 met himrdquo
NO ldquoDr Jacobs whom he dedicated the book tordquoYES ldquoDr Jacobs to whom he dedicated the bookrdquoOK ldquoDr Jacobs who he dedicated the book tordquo
(Understand please OK means the usage is OK but certainly not great and still would make Miss Pine [to whom these things were most important] suffer even if she has been gone all these years)
9 Placement of illustrations amp quotes
If you have places within the text where an illustration will go when the book or article is complete write your draft like this
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on After the end of your paragraph right here leave room for your to-be-added photo or illustration and make appropriatenotes to indicate to yourself or your assistant what goes here like this
Illustration 3 hereOptional title of photo here
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phot
o M
elis
sa Ir
elan
d
Credits Photo or art credit goes here small or at 90 degrees to pageAlso make sure you have filed the relevant photo so you can find it easily so itrsquos ready to insert into your almost-final drafts
Only format the text to fit around your illustration after your text is finalized This is really important If you insert all your images prematurely when you delete add or change text they will each also have to be adjusted
Hold off Be patient Itrsquos worth itmdashyoursquoll literally save yourself HOURS of readjusting Wait until your text is done before you insert your images When your text is final and you have inserted the image it can look like this one does See how the image sits nicely within the body of the text with that nice
white space around it lots of room for it to breathe
Quotes Make a place for a quote within your text indicating where it goes like this
Leave two lines between the text and the quoteIndicate quote here
When you format make the font a bit larger more bold or italic or centered
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on and so on
There are as many ways to include quotes as there are people writing books I like to leave two line spaces before and after the quote and I center it in boldmdashor as in this book in a font that naturally aligns in appearance with the title font
Like this
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Time flies when I write
Others like to put their quote on the margin moving the text over a bit or in a box or in a space indented into the text just the way
this little example is or the way the image on the previous page looks
In the books I designed for EFT Master Rue Hass recently I made the quotes quite bold because they were strong statements and needed a corresponding look
You are literally what you think
As you can see I also enlarged and used an emphasizing color for the most important words in the quote to push home the essence of the message
If you have ever seen any of manifestos that top business critic Tom Peters writes yoursquoll see a similar very edgy choice of font color and emphasis His manifestos are quite brilliant
Irsquom sure yours will be too So many choices you can make other than Courier Times and straight left and right justified formatting
ldquoTime flies when I writerdquo- Angela Treat Lyon
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Your finished bookmdashA Recap
Write You have written your text collected your quotes illustrations and other supporting material
Edit You have made sure your spelling and other text errors are eliminated
Format You have formatted your text using the guidelines set out in the beginning of this book using your favorite ONE OR TWO mdashand no moremdasheasy-to-read fonts
Fonts Be very sparing of fancy font usage If used too much they only serve to distract from your writing and some can be quite unreadable
Fancy fonts have no place in articles or books unless they are meant to be more decorative than functionalmdashperhaps as part of a heading or chapter title
Photos and other You have inserted your supporting materials in the correct positions
Tweak You have tweaked your formatting to allow captions and titles for photos or illustrations or charts if need be
White space Yoursquove got white space around all your graphs illustrations and photos and some good margins for notes
So ultimately (and in accordance with the ldquolookrdquo you give your book with fonts and illustration) your book or article might look like this
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Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
Writing articles for free publicity
What do you write aboutText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text
text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text
ldquoYoursquore writing whatrdquo
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text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Add your quote here like this
ldquoPut your future in good handsyour ownrdquo
Mark Victor Hansen
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
The End
copy Renalda Whodewhat 2006 All rights reserved You may feel free to use this article in your newsletter or ezine upon the condition that you agree keep 100 of the text illustrations and links intact Thanks TheUltimateWebsitecom RenaldaTheUltimateWebsitecom
________________________
Thatrsquos it Now go write edit build publish and sell your beautiful clear intelligently written books and articles
On the following pages I have listed all kinds of support andresources that I and my other writer-friends use
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Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
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Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
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Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
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Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
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How I found and became certified in EFT How you too can have success and enjoy being not only pros-perous but able to help so many people
c Write out each point and a supporting paragraph
Similarly yoursquoll write your book point by point each point can be a whole chapter rather than just a paragraph
Example I used to be a broke depressed starving artistSupporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text
Make paragraphs and sentences short for ease of readingblah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc
I made the decision to change no matter whatSupporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah etc text blah blah blah etc
I spent several years in tremendous research into energy tech-niques and internet marketing strategies
Supporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah
I learned and was certified in EFT and I learned how to market my books products and classes on the internetSupporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc text text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah blah etc text blah blah blah etc text blah
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As a now-successful energy practitioner I use the vast array of avail-able internet tools and technology to market my transformational and wealth-building services and products It allows me to be found by those who need them and makes it easy for me to teach them how to do the same thing as well
Supporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc
d Summarize tell lsquoem what you told lsquoem
ExampleNow you know how someone who was suicidal for the most part of 35 yearsmdashalmost half her lifemdashhas created a happy more fulfilling life that she can wake up happy about every morning
And how she uses the internet to build and expand her business and contacts so she can do more of what she loves to do have a great time helping folks live their dreams and spend more personal time at the beach
e Sell without selling
Within the text mention your product service or book by name WITHOUT selling
Example ldquoIn my book ldquoChange your Mindrdquo I make the point that you can eliminate or relieve pain by a simple tapping with your fingertips Itrsquos this technique that helped me get rid of my 35-year suicidal depression (Change Your Mind here)
ldquoDepression can be so debilitating that onersquos chemical balance can be so thrown out of whack itrsquos impossible to think straight In this conditionrdquo And so on
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See how I used a conversational tone to perk up the interest of someone who suffers depression Readers find themselves wanting to see the book but I havenrsquot done a hard sell
You have to create curiosity and empathy so they feel with you and want for themselves what yoursquove gotten or done
f Contact information for articles
IMPERATIVE Include your contact informationExample of text to add the end of your article
ANGELA TREAT LYON bull LyonRich-RadiocomEFTBookscom PIGEEScom Rich-Radiocom
EFT and Wealth Creation Training Books and other ProductsYou may use this article only in its entirety and with complete
contact information included
For print booksAdd any resources you want to include on the bookrsquos last page contact information lists of products lists of links to business or friendsrsquo websites and affiliate links (which you can also sprinkle into the text if appropriate) etc If itrsquos bound for a website use live links httpwwwPIGEEScom instead of PIGEEScom
You might want to add a prologue an addendum bibliography ap-pendices references cross-references and other types of indicesmdashyou name it
4 Header and footer
At the top of each page place your bookrsquos title at the bottom your copyright and contact information
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Why If yoursquore making an ebook that a person will be printing out you want to make sure that even if the pages are shuffled around or get blown into a tornado they have the following items placed on them in a way that is easy-to-find and integrated with the design
The title of the book The copy copyright sign your name and date of copyright The page number Your website andor contact information All rights reserved
You can have a lot of fun with the footer In this particular series of books I stayed pretty conservative But in other books Irsquove built I went hog-wild Take a look at the footer of the book I built for Rebecca Marina and me to give away 10 Tips to Make People Like You in 30 Seconds or Less
And here is the one I used for one of my own books From Starving to Full Speed Ahead
Granted these are not your ordinary run-of-the-mill footers But they do provide the information I want to convey and are unique design elements that add to the quality of my writing the look of the books and even emphasize the topics themselves
IMPORTANT NOTE Make sure there is NO TEXT less than 5rdquo from left or right edge (I like to leave 75rdquo) and 312rdquo at the top and 5rdquo at bottom as your text may get trimmed off when printed pages are cut to size and bound if you use full page (A4 or 85rdquo x 11rdquo) formats
copy Rebecca Marina 2005 9 CelebrationHealingcomAll rights reserved
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5 Spelling amp punctuation can make or break your credibility
Print this section out and keep it near when you write It will save your butt more times than yoursquoll ever believe
a Sounds silly but remember to use Spellcheck
Andmdasheven though you have diligently gone through and corrected with Spellcheck make sure your word usage is correct
b Pay careful attention to these words your and yoursquore there and their its and itrsquos Spell check wonrsquot find or correct them
When you say ldquoThere house burned downrdquo you look like an idiot and lose credibility Immediately No matter who you are or how popular or how much money you make
When you say ldquoTheir house burned downrdquo no one noticesmdash because itrsquos correct Mistakes are mind-stoppers Mistakes make the reader stop comprehending what he is reading to think about what was said so his eyes continuemdashbut miss the message
Avoid mind-stoppers that stop your readersrsquo train of thought by making them have to stop and figure out what you meant making them think you are uneducated and making them wonder if you are as smart as you claim to be if you make mistakes like this
WRONG ldquoYour going to the storerdquoRIGHT ldquoYoursquore going to the storerdquo
WRONG ldquoYoursquore computer just blew uprdquoRIGHT ldquoYour computer just blew uprdquo
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WRONG ldquoIts about timerdquoRIGHT ldquoItrsquos about timerdquo
WRONG Seeing itrsquos nose surprised meRIGHT Seeing its nose surprised me
Its and itrsquos seem backwards from how we think they ought to logically be used We think itrsquos ought to be possessive But it isnrsquot Herersquos why
Itrsquos is a contractionmdasha shorteningmdashof it and is
Its is the possessive form Example Its head was green and pointed(NOT Itrsquos head)
WRONG Itrsquos foot got stuck itrsquos memory card was shot RIGHT Its foot got stuck its memory card was shot
Correct Contraction Itrsquos hotCorrect Possessive Its nose burned from the heat
Be really careful because in the wrong places the incorrect use of these words will totally undermine your credibility and radically reduce the faith and trust yoursquore trying to build in your readers
c Apostrophe overload Possession and plurals
The incorrect use of the possessive form to make things or persons pluralmdashmore than onemdashgets me ranting every time as in They said their horsersquos went over the hill
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NO They said their horsersquos went over the hillThis lsquos indicates possession Horses over the hill donrsquot own anything here
YES They said their horses went over the hill PluralYES ldquoThe horsesrsquo tails were flying as they ran over the hillrdquo is correct Possessivemdashthe tails they own are flying
NO There are resourcersquos in the boxThere are resources in the box Resources donrsquot own anything here
YES There are resources in the box PluralYES ldquoThe resourcersquos best part is rdquo is correct Possessive - the best part of the resource NO Breakthroughrsquos In PersuasionBreakthroughs donrsquot own anything here
YES Breakthroughs In Persuasion PluralYES ldquoMy breakthroughrsquos worst part was when such and such happenedrdquo that usage would be correct Possessive
Do you see the difference
And YES lsquo90s MP3s CDs NO lsquo90rsquos MP3rsquos CDrsquosThe form to use to show a person or thing possessing is Samrsquos hat the carrsquos door Arnoldrsquos accent Motherrsquos skirt the bookrsquos chapter headings Plural Possession The horsesrsquo tails
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d Punctuation
So many people blow this one
1 To indicate a pause use a comma not WRONG If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it RIGHT If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it
WRONG When he went away she became lonelyRIGHT When he went away she became lonely
2 When using quotes punctuation goes INSIDE themWRONG She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo RIGHT She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo
However if an end-word is in quotations the punctuation goes outside the quote marksWRONG Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquoRIGHT Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquo
e Pauses
Copywriters are told ldquoWrite like you speak so you can sound famil-iarrdquo But contrary to what people say when you write like you speak you need to remember that a pause in speech is not structured the same as a pause in writing
WRONG Now you have to remember when you leave the door open the flies come inRIGHT Now you have to remember that when you leave the door open the flies come in
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f Spacing
One space between sentences It used to be two now itrsquos OK to use only one
6 Hisher theytheir
Herersquos what most people write If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See anything wrong with that
Probably not because this incorrect usage is so prevalent
Here is how it ought to be writtenIf a person wants he can leave his shoes out front
Take this sentence apart If A person wants to THEY can leave
What How did ONE person become THEY
However most of us donrsquot want to hassle over whether to say he or she him or her or hers or his
Therersquos a way to get around that
Herersquos how we say it wrongWRONG If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See how weird that is Since when is one person a ldquotheyrdquoRIGHT ldquoIf PEOPLE want THEY can leave their shoes out frontrdquo That is much more congruent See PEOPLE THEY
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Itrsquos either ONE person (says) he or she (thinks this or that)OR
PEOPLE (say) THEY (think this or that)
7 The correct usage of dots
Within a sentence use three dots to indicate that some part of a text is missing as in a quote from someoneWhen she saw thatshe really looked worried
At the end of a sentence use four dots to indicate something miss-ing or simply left to the imaginationThen he walked down into the foggy valley
Avoid using dots to indicate a pause within the sentence
8 Whom and who
I think whoever (NOT whomever) started dredging up the word ldquowhomrdquo a few years ago ought to be shot
Perhaps it started in a movie script written by someone who wanted the character to seem educated I donrsquot know
But every time I hear someone ay ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo my guts shrivel I donrsquot think there is any other word as badly misused Did you know that the way whom ought to be used is
ldquoWith whom are you going to the partyrdquo
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BUTmdashare you really going to say that I donrsquot think so
We want to sound intelligent yes But not stilted
We say more commonly ldquoWho are you going withrdquo
The whole flap is because we arenrsquot supposed to have those ldquodangling participlesrdquo at the end of our sentence or question Like ldquoWho are you going withrdquo Or ldquoWhorsquod you give it tordquo
When you say ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo yoursquore making not only one blunder but a double blunder Poor old Miss Pine your ninth-grade very correct English teacher would do spin cycles in her grave Whom is used incorrectly and therersquos that dumb dangling participle
Herersquos how to use the ldquowhomrdquo wordNO ldquoWhom are you going withrdquoYES ldquoWith whom are you goingrdquo
OK If you just canrsquot get yourself to say that then say ldquoWho are you going withrdquo At least that sounds less stilted and no matter that the ldquowithrdquo dangles
Before you start writing copy for an ad or writing your book choose the group to whom you are writing (seemdashdoesnrsquot that sound good) Do you want to sound casual Or is it more important to sound educated or business-likemdashor even stilted Maybe your bookrsquos character is supposed to sound stilted Itrsquos important to know how to choose so you can choose
If casual use ldquoWho are you going withrdquo or ldquogive tordquo
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If business use ldquowith whomrdquo or ldquoto whomrdquo
NO ldquoThe president whom you were seen with last nightrdquoYES ldquoThe president with whom you were seenrdquo OK ldquoThe president who you were seen with last nightrdquo
NO ldquoMartha whom he danced with in 1978 met himrdquoYES ldquoMartha with whom he danced in 1978 met himrdquoOK ldquoMartha who he danced with in 1978 met himrdquo
NO ldquoDr Jacobs whom he dedicated the book tordquoYES ldquoDr Jacobs to whom he dedicated the bookrdquoOK ldquoDr Jacobs who he dedicated the book tordquo
(Understand please OK means the usage is OK but certainly not great and still would make Miss Pine [to whom these things were most important] suffer even if she has been gone all these years)
9 Placement of illustrations amp quotes
If you have places within the text where an illustration will go when the book or article is complete write your draft like this
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on After the end of your paragraph right here leave room for your to-be-added photo or illustration and make appropriatenotes to indicate to yourself or your assistant what goes here like this
Illustration 3 hereOptional title of photo here
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phot
o M
elis
sa Ir
elan
d
Credits Photo or art credit goes here small or at 90 degrees to pageAlso make sure you have filed the relevant photo so you can find it easily so itrsquos ready to insert into your almost-final drafts
Only format the text to fit around your illustration after your text is finalized This is really important If you insert all your images prematurely when you delete add or change text they will each also have to be adjusted
Hold off Be patient Itrsquos worth itmdashyoursquoll literally save yourself HOURS of readjusting Wait until your text is done before you insert your images When your text is final and you have inserted the image it can look like this one does See how the image sits nicely within the body of the text with that nice
white space around it lots of room for it to breathe
Quotes Make a place for a quote within your text indicating where it goes like this
Leave two lines between the text and the quoteIndicate quote here
When you format make the font a bit larger more bold or italic or centered
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on and so on
There are as many ways to include quotes as there are people writing books I like to leave two line spaces before and after the quote and I center it in boldmdashor as in this book in a font that naturally aligns in appearance with the title font
Like this
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 19 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Time flies when I write
Others like to put their quote on the margin moving the text over a bit or in a box or in a space indented into the text just the way
this little example is or the way the image on the previous page looks
In the books I designed for EFT Master Rue Hass recently I made the quotes quite bold because they were strong statements and needed a corresponding look
You are literally what you think
As you can see I also enlarged and used an emphasizing color for the most important words in the quote to push home the essence of the message
If you have ever seen any of manifestos that top business critic Tom Peters writes yoursquoll see a similar very edgy choice of font color and emphasis His manifestos are quite brilliant
Irsquom sure yours will be too So many choices you can make other than Courier Times and straight left and right justified formatting
ldquoTime flies when I writerdquo- Angela Treat Lyon
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
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Your finished bookmdashA Recap
Write You have written your text collected your quotes illustrations and other supporting material
Edit You have made sure your spelling and other text errors are eliminated
Format You have formatted your text using the guidelines set out in the beginning of this book using your favorite ONE OR TWO mdashand no moremdasheasy-to-read fonts
Fonts Be very sparing of fancy font usage If used too much they only serve to distract from your writing and some can be quite unreadable
Fancy fonts have no place in articles or books unless they are meant to be more decorative than functionalmdashperhaps as part of a heading or chapter title
Photos and other You have inserted your supporting materials in the correct positions
Tweak You have tweaked your formatting to allow captions and titles for photos or illustrations or charts if need be
White space Yoursquove got white space around all your graphs illustrations and photos and some good margins for notes
So ultimately (and in accordance with the ldquolookrdquo you give your book with fonts and illustration) your book or article might look like this
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
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Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
Writing articles for free publicity
What do you write aboutText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text
text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text
ldquoYoursquore writing whatrdquo
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text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Add your quote here like this
ldquoPut your future in good handsyour ownrdquo
Mark Victor Hansen
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
The End
copy Renalda Whodewhat 2006 All rights reserved You may feel free to use this article in your newsletter or ezine upon the condition that you agree keep 100 of the text illustrations and links intact Thanks TheUltimateWebsitecom RenaldaTheUltimateWebsitecom
________________________
Thatrsquos it Now go write edit build publish and sell your beautiful clear intelligently written books and articles
On the following pages I have listed all kinds of support andresources that I and my other writer-friends use
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 23 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 24 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 25 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
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Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
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As a now-successful energy practitioner I use the vast array of avail-able internet tools and technology to market my transformational and wealth-building services and products It allows me to be found by those who need them and makes it easy for me to teach them how to do the same thing as well
Supporting paragraph or chapter here text blah blah etc
d Summarize tell lsquoem what you told lsquoem
ExampleNow you know how someone who was suicidal for the most part of 35 yearsmdashalmost half her lifemdashhas created a happy more fulfilling life that she can wake up happy about every morning
And how she uses the internet to build and expand her business and contacts so she can do more of what she loves to do have a great time helping folks live their dreams and spend more personal time at the beach
e Sell without selling
Within the text mention your product service or book by name WITHOUT selling
Example ldquoIn my book ldquoChange your Mindrdquo I make the point that you can eliminate or relieve pain by a simple tapping with your fingertips Itrsquos this technique that helped me get rid of my 35-year suicidal depression (Change Your Mind here)
ldquoDepression can be so debilitating that onersquos chemical balance can be so thrown out of whack itrsquos impossible to think straight In this conditionrdquo And so on
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See how I used a conversational tone to perk up the interest of someone who suffers depression Readers find themselves wanting to see the book but I havenrsquot done a hard sell
You have to create curiosity and empathy so they feel with you and want for themselves what yoursquove gotten or done
f Contact information for articles
IMPERATIVE Include your contact informationExample of text to add the end of your article
ANGELA TREAT LYON bull LyonRich-RadiocomEFTBookscom PIGEEScom Rich-Radiocom
EFT and Wealth Creation Training Books and other ProductsYou may use this article only in its entirety and with complete
contact information included
For print booksAdd any resources you want to include on the bookrsquos last page contact information lists of products lists of links to business or friendsrsquo websites and affiliate links (which you can also sprinkle into the text if appropriate) etc If itrsquos bound for a website use live links httpwwwPIGEEScom instead of PIGEEScom
You might want to add a prologue an addendum bibliography ap-pendices references cross-references and other types of indicesmdashyou name it
4 Header and footer
At the top of each page place your bookrsquos title at the bottom your copyright and contact information
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Why If yoursquore making an ebook that a person will be printing out you want to make sure that even if the pages are shuffled around or get blown into a tornado they have the following items placed on them in a way that is easy-to-find and integrated with the design
The title of the book The copy copyright sign your name and date of copyright The page number Your website andor contact information All rights reserved
You can have a lot of fun with the footer In this particular series of books I stayed pretty conservative But in other books Irsquove built I went hog-wild Take a look at the footer of the book I built for Rebecca Marina and me to give away 10 Tips to Make People Like You in 30 Seconds or Less
And here is the one I used for one of my own books From Starving to Full Speed Ahead
Granted these are not your ordinary run-of-the-mill footers But they do provide the information I want to convey and are unique design elements that add to the quality of my writing the look of the books and even emphasize the topics themselves
IMPORTANT NOTE Make sure there is NO TEXT less than 5rdquo from left or right edge (I like to leave 75rdquo) and 312rdquo at the top and 5rdquo at bottom as your text may get trimmed off when printed pages are cut to size and bound if you use full page (A4 or 85rdquo x 11rdquo) formats
copy Rebecca Marina 2005 9 CelebrationHealingcomAll rights reserved
Angela Treat Lyon 22 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
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5 Spelling amp punctuation can make or break your credibility
Print this section out and keep it near when you write It will save your butt more times than yoursquoll ever believe
a Sounds silly but remember to use Spellcheck
Andmdasheven though you have diligently gone through and corrected with Spellcheck make sure your word usage is correct
b Pay careful attention to these words your and yoursquore there and their its and itrsquos Spell check wonrsquot find or correct them
When you say ldquoThere house burned downrdquo you look like an idiot and lose credibility Immediately No matter who you are or how popular or how much money you make
When you say ldquoTheir house burned downrdquo no one noticesmdash because itrsquos correct Mistakes are mind-stoppers Mistakes make the reader stop comprehending what he is reading to think about what was said so his eyes continuemdashbut miss the message
Avoid mind-stoppers that stop your readersrsquo train of thought by making them have to stop and figure out what you meant making them think you are uneducated and making them wonder if you are as smart as you claim to be if you make mistakes like this
WRONG ldquoYour going to the storerdquoRIGHT ldquoYoursquore going to the storerdquo
WRONG ldquoYoursquore computer just blew uprdquoRIGHT ldquoYour computer just blew uprdquo
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WRONG ldquoIts about timerdquoRIGHT ldquoItrsquos about timerdquo
WRONG Seeing itrsquos nose surprised meRIGHT Seeing its nose surprised me
Its and itrsquos seem backwards from how we think they ought to logically be used We think itrsquos ought to be possessive But it isnrsquot Herersquos why
Itrsquos is a contractionmdasha shorteningmdashof it and is
Its is the possessive form Example Its head was green and pointed(NOT Itrsquos head)
WRONG Itrsquos foot got stuck itrsquos memory card was shot RIGHT Its foot got stuck its memory card was shot
Correct Contraction Itrsquos hotCorrect Possessive Its nose burned from the heat
Be really careful because in the wrong places the incorrect use of these words will totally undermine your credibility and radically reduce the faith and trust yoursquore trying to build in your readers
c Apostrophe overload Possession and plurals
The incorrect use of the possessive form to make things or persons pluralmdashmore than onemdashgets me ranting every time as in They said their horsersquos went over the hill
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NO They said their horsersquos went over the hillThis lsquos indicates possession Horses over the hill donrsquot own anything here
YES They said their horses went over the hill PluralYES ldquoThe horsesrsquo tails were flying as they ran over the hillrdquo is correct Possessivemdashthe tails they own are flying
NO There are resourcersquos in the boxThere are resources in the box Resources donrsquot own anything here
YES There are resources in the box PluralYES ldquoThe resourcersquos best part is rdquo is correct Possessive - the best part of the resource NO Breakthroughrsquos In PersuasionBreakthroughs donrsquot own anything here
YES Breakthroughs In Persuasion PluralYES ldquoMy breakthroughrsquos worst part was when such and such happenedrdquo that usage would be correct Possessive
Do you see the difference
And YES lsquo90s MP3s CDs NO lsquo90rsquos MP3rsquos CDrsquosThe form to use to show a person or thing possessing is Samrsquos hat the carrsquos door Arnoldrsquos accent Motherrsquos skirt the bookrsquos chapter headings Plural Possession The horsesrsquo tails
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d Punctuation
So many people blow this one
1 To indicate a pause use a comma not WRONG If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it RIGHT If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it
WRONG When he went away she became lonelyRIGHT When he went away she became lonely
2 When using quotes punctuation goes INSIDE themWRONG She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo RIGHT She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo
However if an end-word is in quotations the punctuation goes outside the quote marksWRONG Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquoRIGHT Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquo
e Pauses
Copywriters are told ldquoWrite like you speak so you can sound famil-iarrdquo But contrary to what people say when you write like you speak you need to remember that a pause in speech is not structured the same as a pause in writing
WRONG Now you have to remember when you leave the door open the flies come inRIGHT Now you have to remember that when you leave the door open the flies come in
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f Spacing
One space between sentences It used to be two now itrsquos OK to use only one
6 Hisher theytheir
Herersquos what most people write If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See anything wrong with that
Probably not because this incorrect usage is so prevalent
Here is how it ought to be writtenIf a person wants he can leave his shoes out front
Take this sentence apart If A person wants to THEY can leave
What How did ONE person become THEY
However most of us donrsquot want to hassle over whether to say he or she him or her or hers or his
Therersquos a way to get around that
Herersquos how we say it wrongWRONG If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See how weird that is Since when is one person a ldquotheyrdquoRIGHT ldquoIf PEOPLE want THEY can leave their shoes out frontrdquo That is much more congruent See PEOPLE THEY
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Itrsquos either ONE person (says) he or she (thinks this or that)OR
PEOPLE (say) THEY (think this or that)
7 The correct usage of dots
Within a sentence use three dots to indicate that some part of a text is missing as in a quote from someoneWhen she saw thatshe really looked worried
At the end of a sentence use four dots to indicate something miss-ing or simply left to the imaginationThen he walked down into the foggy valley
Avoid using dots to indicate a pause within the sentence
8 Whom and who
I think whoever (NOT whomever) started dredging up the word ldquowhomrdquo a few years ago ought to be shot
Perhaps it started in a movie script written by someone who wanted the character to seem educated I donrsquot know
But every time I hear someone ay ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo my guts shrivel I donrsquot think there is any other word as badly misused Did you know that the way whom ought to be used is
ldquoWith whom are you going to the partyrdquo
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BUTmdashare you really going to say that I donrsquot think so
We want to sound intelligent yes But not stilted
We say more commonly ldquoWho are you going withrdquo
The whole flap is because we arenrsquot supposed to have those ldquodangling participlesrdquo at the end of our sentence or question Like ldquoWho are you going withrdquo Or ldquoWhorsquod you give it tordquo
When you say ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo yoursquore making not only one blunder but a double blunder Poor old Miss Pine your ninth-grade very correct English teacher would do spin cycles in her grave Whom is used incorrectly and therersquos that dumb dangling participle
Herersquos how to use the ldquowhomrdquo wordNO ldquoWhom are you going withrdquoYES ldquoWith whom are you goingrdquo
OK If you just canrsquot get yourself to say that then say ldquoWho are you going withrdquo At least that sounds less stilted and no matter that the ldquowithrdquo dangles
Before you start writing copy for an ad or writing your book choose the group to whom you are writing (seemdashdoesnrsquot that sound good) Do you want to sound casual Or is it more important to sound educated or business-likemdashor even stilted Maybe your bookrsquos character is supposed to sound stilted Itrsquos important to know how to choose so you can choose
If casual use ldquoWho are you going withrdquo or ldquogive tordquo
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If business use ldquowith whomrdquo or ldquoto whomrdquo
NO ldquoThe president whom you were seen with last nightrdquoYES ldquoThe president with whom you were seenrdquo OK ldquoThe president who you were seen with last nightrdquo
NO ldquoMartha whom he danced with in 1978 met himrdquoYES ldquoMartha with whom he danced in 1978 met himrdquoOK ldquoMartha who he danced with in 1978 met himrdquo
NO ldquoDr Jacobs whom he dedicated the book tordquoYES ldquoDr Jacobs to whom he dedicated the bookrdquoOK ldquoDr Jacobs who he dedicated the book tordquo
(Understand please OK means the usage is OK but certainly not great and still would make Miss Pine [to whom these things were most important] suffer even if she has been gone all these years)
9 Placement of illustrations amp quotes
If you have places within the text where an illustration will go when the book or article is complete write your draft like this
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on After the end of your paragraph right here leave room for your to-be-added photo or illustration and make appropriatenotes to indicate to yourself or your assistant what goes here like this
Illustration 3 hereOptional title of photo here
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phot
o M
elis
sa Ir
elan
d
Credits Photo or art credit goes here small or at 90 degrees to pageAlso make sure you have filed the relevant photo so you can find it easily so itrsquos ready to insert into your almost-final drafts
Only format the text to fit around your illustration after your text is finalized This is really important If you insert all your images prematurely when you delete add or change text they will each also have to be adjusted
Hold off Be patient Itrsquos worth itmdashyoursquoll literally save yourself HOURS of readjusting Wait until your text is done before you insert your images When your text is final and you have inserted the image it can look like this one does See how the image sits nicely within the body of the text with that nice
white space around it lots of room for it to breathe
Quotes Make a place for a quote within your text indicating where it goes like this
Leave two lines between the text and the quoteIndicate quote here
When you format make the font a bit larger more bold or italic or centered
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on and so on
There are as many ways to include quotes as there are people writing books I like to leave two line spaces before and after the quote and I center it in boldmdashor as in this book in a font that naturally aligns in appearance with the title font
Like this
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Time flies when I write
Others like to put their quote on the margin moving the text over a bit or in a box or in a space indented into the text just the way
this little example is or the way the image on the previous page looks
In the books I designed for EFT Master Rue Hass recently I made the quotes quite bold because they were strong statements and needed a corresponding look
You are literally what you think
As you can see I also enlarged and used an emphasizing color for the most important words in the quote to push home the essence of the message
If you have ever seen any of manifestos that top business critic Tom Peters writes yoursquoll see a similar very edgy choice of font color and emphasis His manifestos are quite brilliant
Irsquom sure yours will be too So many choices you can make other than Courier Times and straight left and right justified formatting
ldquoTime flies when I writerdquo- Angela Treat Lyon
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Your finished bookmdashA Recap
Write You have written your text collected your quotes illustrations and other supporting material
Edit You have made sure your spelling and other text errors are eliminated
Format You have formatted your text using the guidelines set out in the beginning of this book using your favorite ONE OR TWO mdashand no moremdasheasy-to-read fonts
Fonts Be very sparing of fancy font usage If used too much they only serve to distract from your writing and some can be quite unreadable
Fancy fonts have no place in articles or books unless they are meant to be more decorative than functionalmdashperhaps as part of a heading or chapter title
Photos and other You have inserted your supporting materials in the correct positions
Tweak You have tweaked your formatting to allow captions and titles for photos or illustrations or charts if need be
White space Yoursquove got white space around all your graphs illustrations and photos and some good margins for notes
So ultimately (and in accordance with the ldquolookrdquo you give your book with fonts and illustration) your book or article might look like this
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Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
Writing articles for free publicity
What do you write aboutText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text
text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text
ldquoYoursquore writing whatrdquo
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text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Add your quote here like this
ldquoPut your future in good handsyour ownrdquo
Mark Victor Hansen
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
The End
copy Renalda Whodewhat 2006 All rights reserved You may feel free to use this article in your newsletter or ezine upon the condition that you agree keep 100 of the text illustrations and links intact Thanks TheUltimateWebsitecom RenaldaTheUltimateWebsitecom
________________________
Thatrsquos it Now go write edit build publish and sell your beautiful clear intelligently written books and articles
On the following pages I have listed all kinds of support andresources that I and my other writer-friends use
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Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
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Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
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Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
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Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
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See how I used a conversational tone to perk up the interest of someone who suffers depression Readers find themselves wanting to see the book but I havenrsquot done a hard sell
You have to create curiosity and empathy so they feel with you and want for themselves what yoursquove gotten or done
f Contact information for articles
IMPERATIVE Include your contact informationExample of text to add the end of your article
ANGELA TREAT LYON bull LyonRich-RadiocomEFTBookscom PIGEEScom Rich-Radiocom
EFT and Wealth Creation Training Books and other ProductsYou may use this article only in its entirety and with complete
contact information included
For print booksAdd any resources you want to include on the bookrsquos last page contact information lists of products lists of links to business or friendsrsquo websites and affiliate links (which you can also sprinkle into the text if appropriate) etc If itrsquos bound for a website use live links httpwwwPIGEEScom instead of PIGEEScom
You might want to add a prologue an addendum bibliography ap-pendices references cross-references and other types of indicesmdashyou name it
4 Header and footer
At the top of each page place your bookrsquos title at the bottom your copyright and contact information
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
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Why If yoursquore making an ebook that a person will be printing out you want to make sure that even if the pages are shuffled around or get blown into a tornado they have the following items placed on them in a way that is easy-to-find and integrated with the design
The title of the book The copy copyright sign your name and date of copyright The page number Your website andor contact information All rights reserved
You can have a lot of fun with the footer In this particular series of books I stayed pretty conservative But in other books Irsquove built I went hog-wild Take a look at the footer of the book I built for Rebecca Marina and me to give away 10 Tips to Make People Like You in 30 Seconds or Less
And here is the one I used for one of my own books From Starving to Full Speed Ahead
Granted these are not your ordinary run-of-the-mill footers But they do provide the information I want to convey and are unique design elements that add to the quality of my writing the look of the books and even emphasize the topics themselves
IMPORTANT NOTE Make sure there is NO TEXT less than 5rdquo from left or right edge (I like to leave 75rdquo) and 312rdquo at the top and 5rdquo at bottom as your text may get trimmed off when printed pages are cut to size and bound if you use full page (A4 or 85rdquo x 11rdquo) formats
copy Rebecca Marina 2005 9 CelebrationHealingcomAll rights reserved
Angela Treat Lyon 22 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
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5 Spelling amp punctuation can make or break your credibility
Print this section out and keep it near when you write It will save your butt more times than yoursquoll ever believe
a Sounds silly but remember to use Spellcheck
Andmdasheven though you have diligently gone through and corrected with Spellcheck make sure your word usage is correct
b Pay careful attention to these words your and yoursquore there and their its and itrsquos Spell check wonrsquot find or correct them
When you say ldquoThere house burned downrdquo you look like an idiot and lose credibility Immediately No matter who you are or how popular or how much money you make
When you say ldquoTheir house burned downrdquo no one noticesmdash because itrsquos correct Mistakes are mind-stoppers Mistakes make the reader stop comprehending what he is reading to think about what was said so his eyes continuemdashbut miss the message
Avoid mind-stoppers that stop your readersrsquo train of thought by making them have to stop and figure out what you meant making them think you are uneducated and making them wonder if you are as smart as you claim to be if you make mistakes like this
WRONG ldquoYour going to the storerdquoRIGHT ldquoYoursquore going to the storerdquo
WRONG ldquoYoursquore computer just blew uprdquoRIGHT ldquoYour computer just blew uprdquo
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WRONG ldquoIts about timerdquoRIGHT ldquoItrsquos about timerdquo
WRONG Seeing itrsquos nose surprised meRIGHT Seeing its nose surprised me
Its and itrsquos seem backwards from how we think they ought to logically be used We think itrsquos ought to be possessive But it isnrsquot Herersquos why
Itrsquos is a contractionmdasha shorteningmdashof it and is
Its is the possessive form Example Its head was green and pointed(NOT Itrsquos head)
WRONG Itrsquos foot got stuck itrsquos memory card was shot RIGHT Its foot got stuck its memory card was shot
Correct Contraction Itrsquos hotCorrect Possessive Its nose burned from the heat
Be really careful because in the wrong places the incorrect use of these words will totally undermine your credibility and radically reduce the faith and trust yoursquore trying to build in your readers
c Apostrophe overload Possession and plurals
The incorrect use of the possessive form to make things or persons pluralmdashmore than onemdashgets me ranting every time as in They said their horsersquos went over the hill
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NO They said their horsersquos went over the hillThis lsquos indicates possession Horses over the hill donrsquot own anything here
YES They said their horses went over the hill PluralYES ldquoThe horsesrsquo tails were flying as they ran over the hillrdquo is correct Possessivemdashthe tails they own are flying
NO There are resourcersquos in the boxThere are resources in the box Resources donrsquot own anything here
YES There are resources in the box PluralYES ldquoThe resourcersquos best part is rdquo is correct Possessive - the best part of the resource NO Breakthroughrsquos In PersuasionBreakthroughs donrsquot own anything here
YES Breakthroughs In Persuasion PluralYES ldquoMy breakthroughrsquos worst part was when such and such happenedrdquo that usage would be correct Possessive
Do you see the difference
And YES lsquo90s MP3s CDs NO lsquo90rsquos MP3rsquos CDrsquosThe form to use to show a person or thing possessing is Samrsquos hat the carrsquos door Arnoldrsquos accent Motherrsquos skirt the bookrsquos chapter headings Plural Possession The horsesrsquo tails
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d Punctuation
So many people blow this one
1 To indicate a pause use a comma not WRONG If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it RIGHT If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it
WRONG When he went away she became lonelyRIGHT When he went away she became lonely
2 When using quotes punctuation goes INSIDE themWRONG She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo RIGHT She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo
However if an end-word is in quotations the punctuation goes outside the quote marksWRONG Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquoRIGHT Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquo
e Pauses
Copywriters are told ldquoWrite like you speak so you can sound famil-iarrdquo But contrary to what people say when you write like you speak you need to remember that a pause in speech is not structured the same as a pause in writing
WRONG Now you have to remember when you leave the door open the flies come inRIGHT Now you have to remember that when you leave the door open the flies come in
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f Spacing
One space between sentences It used to be two now itrsquos OK to use only one
6 Hisher theytheir
Herersquos what most people write If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See anything wrong with that
Probably not because this incorrect usage is so prevalent
Here is how it ought to be writtenIf a person wants he can leave his shoes out front
Take this sentence apart If A person wants to THEY can leave
What How did ONE person become THEY
However most of us donrsquot want to hassle over whether to say he or she him or her or hers or his
Therersquos a way to get around that
Herersquos how we say it wrongWRONG If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See how weird that is Since when is one person a ldquotheyrdquoRIGHT ldquoIf PEOPLE want THEY can leave their shoes out frontrdquo That is much more congruent See PEOPLE THEY
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Itrsquos either ONE person (says) he or she (thinks this or that)OR
PEOPLE (say) THEY (think this or that)
7 The correct usage of dots
Within a sentence use three dots to indicate that some part of a text is missing as in a quote from someoneWhen she saw thatshe really looked worried
At the end of a sentence use four dots to indicate something miss-ing or simply left to the imaginationThen he walked down into the foggy valley
Avoid using dots to indicate a pause within the sentence
8 Whom and who
I think whoever (NOT whomever) started dredging up the word ldquowhomrdquo a few years ago ought to be shot
Perhaps it started in a movie script written by someone who wanted the character to seem educated I donrsquot know
But every time I hear someone ay ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo my guts shrivel I donrsquot think there is any other word as badly misused Did you know that the way whom ought to be used is
ldquoWith whom are you going to the partyrdquo
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BUTmdashare you really going to say that I donrsquot think so
We want to sound intelligent yes But not stilted
We say more commonly ldquoWho are you going withrdquo
The whole flap is because we arenrsquot supposed to have those ldquodangling participlesrdquo at the end of our sentence or question Like ldquoWho are you going withrdquo Or ldquoWhorsquod you give it tordquo
When you say ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo yoursquore making not only one blunder but a double blunder Poor old Miss Pine your ninth-grade very correct English teacher would do spin cycles in her grave Whom is used incorrectly and therersquos that dumb dangling participle
Herersquos how to use the ldquowhomrdquo wordNO ldquoWhom are you going withrdquoYES ldquoWith whom are you goingrdquo
OK If you just canrsquot get yourself to say that then say ldquoWho are you going withrdquo At least that sounds less stilted and no matter that the ldquowithrdquo dangles
Before you start writing copy for an ad or writing your book choose the group to whom you are writing (seemdashdoesnrsquot that sound good) Do you want to sound casual Or is it more important to sound educated or business-likemdashor even stilted Maybe your bookrsquos character is supposed to sound stilted Itrsquos important to know how to choose so you can choose
If casual use ldquoWho are you going withrdquo or ldquogive tordquo
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If business use ldquowith whomrdquo or ldquoto whomrdquo
NO ldquoThe president whom you were seen with last nightrdquoYES ldquoThe president with whom you were seenrdquo OK ldquoThe president who you were seen with last nightrdquo
NO ldquoMartha whom he danced with in 1978 met himrdquoYES ldquoMartha with whom he danced in 1978 met himrdquoOK ldquoMartha who he danced with in 1978 met himrdquo
NO ldquoDr Jacobs whom he dedicated the book tordquoYES ldquoDr Jacobs to whom he dedicated the bookrdquoOK ldquoDr Jacobs who he dedicated the book tordquo
(Understand please OK means the usage is OK but certainly not great and still would make Miss Pine [to whom these things were most important] suffer even if she has been gone all these years)
9 Placement of illustrations amp quotes
If you have places within the text where an illustration will go when the book or article is complete write your draft like this
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on After the end of your paragraph right here leave room for your to-be-added photo or illustration and make appropriatenotes to indicate to yourself or your assistant what goes here like this
Illustration 3 hereOptional title of photo here
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phot
o M
elis
sa Ir
elan
d
Credits Photo or art credit goes here small or at 90 degrees to pageAlso make sure you have filed the relevant photo so you can find it easily so itrsquos ready to insert into your almost-final drafts
Only format the text to fit around your illustration after your text is finalized This is really important If you insert all your images prematurely when you delete add or change text they will each also have to be adjusted
Hold off Be patient Itrsquos worth itmdashyoursquoll literally save yourself HOURS of readjusting Wait until your text is done before you insert your images When your text is final and you have inserted the image it can look like this one does See how the image sits nicely within the body of the text with that nice
white space around it lots of room for it to breathe
Quotes Make a place for a quote within your text indicating where it goes like this
Leave two lines between the text and the quoteIndicate quote here
When you format make the font a bit larger more bold or italic or centered
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on and so on
There are as many ways to include quotes as there are people writing books I like to leave two line spaces before and after the quote and I center it in boldmdashor as in this book in a font that naturally aligns in appearance with the title font
Like this
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Time flies when I write
Others like to put their quote on the margin moving the text over a bit or in a box or in a space indented into the text just the way
this little example is or the way the image on the previous page looks
In the books I designed for EFT Master Rue Hass recently I made the quotes quite bold because they were strong statements and needed a corresponding look
You are literally what you think
As you can see I also enlarged and used an emphasizing color for the most important words in the quote to push home the essence of the message
If you have ever seen any of manifestos that top business critic Tom Peters writes yoursquoll see a similar very edgy choice of font color and emphasis His manifestos are quite brilliant
Irsquom sure yours will be too So many choices you can make other than Courier Times and straight left and right justified formatting
ldquoTime flies when I writerdquo- Angela Treat Lyon
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Your finished bookmdashA Recap
Write You have written your text collected your quotes illustrations and other supporting material
Edit You have made sure your spelling and other text errors are eliminated
Format You have formatted your text using the guidelines set out in the beginning of this book using your favorite ONE OR TWO mdashand no moremdasheasy-to-read fonts
Fonts Be very sparing of fancy font usage If used too much they only serve to distract from your writing and some can be quite unreadable
Fancy fonts have no place in articles or books unless they are meant to be more decorative than functionalmdashperhaps as part of a heading or chapter title
Photos and other You have inserted your supporting materials in the correct positions
Tweak You have tweaked your formatting to allow captions and titles for photos or illustrations or charts if need be
White space Yoursquove got white space around all your graphs illustrations and photos and some good margins for notes
So ultimately (and in accordance with the ldquolookrdquo you give your book with fonts and illustration) your book or article might look like this
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Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
Writing articles for free publicity
What do you write aboutText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text
text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text
ldquoYoursquore writing whatrdquo
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text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Add your quote here like this
ldquoPut your future in good handsyour ownrdquo
Mark Victor Hansen
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
The End
copy Renalda Whodewhat 2006 All rights reserved You may feel free to use this article in your newsletter or ezine upon the condition that you agree keep 100 of the text illustrations and links intact Thanks TheUltimateWebsitecom RenaldaTheUltimateWebsitecom
________________________
Thatrsquos it Now go write edit build publish and sell your beautiful clear intelligently written books and articles
On the following pages I have listed all kinds of support andresources that I and my other writer-friends use
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Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
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Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
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Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
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Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
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Why If yoursquore making an ebook that a person will be printing out you want to make sure that even if the pages are shuffled around or get blown into a tornado they have the following items placed on them in a way that is easy-to-find and integrated with the design
The title of the book The copy copyright sign your name and date of copyright The page number Your website andor contact information All rights reserved
You can have a lot of fun with the footer In this particular series of books I stayed pretty conservative But in other books Irsquove built I went hog-wild Take a look at the footer of the book I built for Rebecca Marina and me to give away 10 Tips to Make People Like You in 30 Seconds or Less
And here is the one I used for one of my own books From Starving to Full Speed Ahead
Granted these are not your ordinary run-of-the-mill footers But they do provide the information I want to convey and are unique design elements that add to the quality of my writing the look of the books and even emphasize the topics themselves
IMPORTANT NOTE Make sure there is NO TEXT less than 5rdquo from left or right edge (I like to leave 75rdquo) and 312rdquo at the top and 5rdquo at bottom as your text may get trimmed off when printed pages are cut to size and bound if you use full page (A4 or 85rdquo x 11rdquo) formats
copy Rebecca Marina 2005 9 CelebrationHealingcomAll rights reserved
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5 Spelling amp punctuation can make or break your credibility
Print this section out and keep it near when you write It will save your butt more times than yoursquoll ever believe
a Sounds silly but remember to use Spellcheck
Andmdasheven though you have diligently gone through and corrected with Spellcheck make sure your word usage is correct
b Pay careful attention to these words your and yoursquore there and their its and itrsquos Spell check wonrsquot find or correct them
When you say ldquoThere house burned downrdquo you look like an idiot and lose credibility Immediately No matter who you are or how popular or how much money you make
When you say ldquoTheir house burned downrdquo no one noticesmdash because itrsquos correct Mistakes are mind-stoppers Mistakes make the reader stop comprehending what he is reading to think about what was said so his eyes continuemdashbut miss the message
Avoid mind-stoppers that stop your readersrsquo train of thought by making them have to stop and figure out what you meant making them think you are uneducated and making them wonder if you are as smart as you claim to be if you make mistakes like this
WRONG ldquoYour going to the storerdquoRIGHT ldquoYoursquore going to the storerdquo
WRONG ldquoYoursquore computer just blew uprdquoRIGHT ldquoYour computer just blew uprdquo
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WRONG ldquoIts about timerdquoRIGHT ldquoItrsquos about timerdquo
WRONG Seeing itrsquos nose surprised meRIGHT Seeing its nose surprised me
Its and itrsquos seem backwards from how we think they ought to logically be used We think itrsquos ought to be possessive But it isnrsquot Herersquos why
Itrsquos is a contractionmdasha shorteningmdashof it and is
Its is the possessive form Example Its head was green and pointed(NOT Itrsquos head)
WRONG Itrsquos foot got stuck itrsquos memory card was shot RIGHT Its foot got stuck its memory card was shot
Correct Contraction Itrsquos hotCorrect Possessive Its nose burned from the heat
Be really careful because in the wrong places the incorrect use of these words will totally undermine your credibility and radically reduce the faith and trust yoursquore trying to build in your readers
c Apostrophe overload Possession and plurals
The incorrect use of the possessive form to make things or persons pluralmdashmore than onemdashgets me ranting every time as in They said their horsersquos went over the hill
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NO They said their horsersquos went over the hillThis lsquos indicates possession Horses over the hill donrsquot own anything here
YES They said their horses went over the hill PluralYES ldquoThe horsesrsquo tails were flying as they ran over the hillrdquo is correct Possessivemdashthe tails they own are flying
NO There are resourcersquos in the boxThere are resources in the box Resources donrsquot own anything here
YES There are resources in the box PluralYES ldquoThe resourcersquos best part is rdquo is correct Possessive - the best part of the resource NO Breakthroughrsquos In PersuasionBreakthroughs donrsquot own anything here
YES Breakthroughs In Persuasion PluralYES ldquoMy breakthroughrsquos worst part was when such and such happenedrdquo that usage would be correct Possessive
Do you see the difference
And YES lsquo90s MP3s CDs NO lsquo90rsquos MP3rsquos CDrsquosThe form to use to show a person or thing possessing is Samrsquos hat the carrsquos door Arnoldrsquos accent Motherrsquos skirt the bookrsquos chapter headings Plural Possession The horsesrsquo tails
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d Punctuation
So many people blow this one
1 To indicate a pause use a comma not WRONG If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it RIGHT If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it
WRONG When he went away she became lonelyRIGHT When he went away she became lonely
2 When using quotes punctuation goes INSIDE themWRONG She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo RIGHT She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo
However if an end-word is in quotations the punctuation goes outside the quote marksWRONG Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquoRIGHT Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquo
e Pauses
Copywriters are told ldquoWrite like you speak so you can sound famil-iarrdquo But contrary to what people say when you write like you speak you need to remember that a pause in speech is not structured the same as a pause in writing
WRONG Now you have to remember when you leave the door open the flies come inRIGHT Now you have to remember that when you leave the door open the flies come in
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f Spacing
One space between sentences It used to be two now itrsquos OK to use only one
6 Hisher theytheir
Herersquos what most people write If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See anything wrong with that
Probably not because this incorrect usage is so prevalent
Here is how it ought to be writtenIf a person wants he can leave his shoes out front
Take this sentence apart If A person wants to THEY can leave
What How did ONE person become THEY
However most of us donrsquot want to hassle over whether to say he or she him or her or hers or his
Therersquos a way to get around that
Herersquos how we say it wrongWRONG If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See how weird that is Since when is one person a ldquotheyrdquoRIGHT ldquoIf PEOPLE want THEY can leave their shoes out frontrdquo That is much more congruent See PEOPLE THEY
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Itrsquos either ONE person (says) he or she (thinks this or that)OR
PEOPLE (say) THEY (think this or that)
7 The correct usage of dots
Within a sentence use three dots to indicate that some part of a text is missing as in a quote from someoneWhen she saw thatshe really looked worried
At the end of a sentence use four dots to indicate something miss-ing or simply left to the imaginationThen he walked down into the foggy valley
Avoid using dots to indicate a pause within the sentence
8 Whom and who
I think whoever (NOT whomever) started dredging up the word ldquowhomrdquo a few years ago ought to be shot
Perhaps it started in a movie script written by someone who wanted the character to seem educated I donrsquot know
But every time I hear someone ay ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo my guts shrivel I donrsquot think there is any other word as badly misused Did you know that the way whom ought to be used is
ldquoWith whom are you going to the partyrdquo
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BUTmdashare you really going to say that I donrsquot think so
We want to sound intelligent yes But not stilted
We say more commonly ldquoWho are you going withrdquo
The whole flap is because we arenrsquot supposed to have those ldquodangling participlesrdquo at the end of our sentence or question Like ldquoWho are you going withrdquo Or ldquoWhorsquod you give it tordquo
When you say ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo yoursquore making not only one blunder but a double blunder Poor old Miss Pine your ninth-grade very correct English teacher would do spin cycles in her grave Whom is used incorrectly and therersquos that dumb dangling participle
Herersquos how to use the ldquowhomrdquo wordNO ldquoWhom are you going withrdquoYES ldquoWith whom are you goingrdquo
OK If you just canrsquot get yourself to say that then say ldquoWho are you going withrdquo At least that sounds less stilted and no matter that the ldquowithrdquo dangles
Before you start writing copy for an ad or writing your book choose the group to whom you are writing (seemdashdoesnrsquot that sound good) Do you want to sound casual Or is it more important to sound educated or business-likemdashor even stilted Maybe your bookrsquos character is supposed to sound stilted Itrsquos important to know how to choose so you can choose
If casual use ldquoWho are you going withrdquo or ldquogive tordquo
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If business use ldquowith whomrdquo or ldquoto whomrdquo
NO ldquoThe president whom you were seen with last nightrdquoYES ldquoThe president with whom you were seenrdquo OK ldquoThe president who you were seen with last nightrdquo
NO ldquoMartha whom he danced with in 1978 met himrdquoYES ldquoMartha with whom he danced in 1978 met himrdquoOK ldquoMartha who he danced with in 1978 met himrdquo
NO ldquoDr Jacobs whom he dedicated the book tordquoYES ldquoDr Jacobs to whom he dedicated the bookrdquoOK ldquoDr Jacobs who he dedicated the book tordquo
(Understand please OK means the usage is OK but certainly not great and still would make Miss Pine [to whom these things were most important] suffer even if she has been gone all these years)
9 Placement of illustrations amp quotes
If you have places within the text where an illustration will go when the book or article is complete write your draft like this
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on After the end of your paragraph right here leave room for your to-be-added photo or illustration and make appropriatenotes to indicate to yourself or your assistant what goes here like this
Illustration 3 hereOptional title of photo here
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phot
o M
elis
sa Ir
elan
d
Credits Photo or art credit goes here small or at 90 degrees to pageAlso make sure you have filed the relevant photo so you can find it easily so itrsquos ready to insert into your almost-final drafts
Only format the text to fit around your illustration after your text is finalized This is really important If you insert all your images prematurely when you delete add or change text they will each also have to be adjusted
Hold off Be patient Itrsquos worth itmdashyoursquoll literally save yourself HOURS of readjusting Wait until your text is done before you insert your images When your text is final and you have inserted the image it can look like this one does See how the image sits nicely within the body of the text with that nice
white space around it lots of room for it to breathe
Quotes Make a place for a quote within your text indicating where it goes like this
Leave two lines between the text and the quoteIndicate quote here
When you format make the font a bit larger more bold or italic or centered
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on and so on
There are as many ways to include quotes as there are people writing books I like to leave two line spaces before and after the quote and I center it in boldmdashor as in this book in a font that naturally aligns in appearance with the title font
Like this
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
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Time flies when I write
Others like to put their quote on the margin moving the text over a bit or in a box or in a space indented into the text just the way
this little example is or the way the image on the previous page looks
In the books I designed for EFT Master Rue Hass recently I made the quotes quite bold because they were strong statements and needed a corresponding look
You are literally what you think
As you can see I also enlarged and used an emphasizing color for the most important words in the quote to push home the essence of the message
If you have ever seen any of manifestos that top business critic Tom Peters writes yoursquoll see a similar very edgy choice of font color and emphasis His manifestos are quite brilliant
Irsquom sure yours will be too So many choices you can make other than Courier Times and straight left and right justified formatting
ldquoTime flies when I writerdquo- Angela Treat Lyon
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Your finished bookmdashA Recap
Write You have written your text collected your quotes illustrations and other supporting material
Edit You have made sure your spelling and other text errors are eliminated
Format You have formatted your text using the guidelines set out in the beginning of this book using your favorite ONE OR TWO mdashand no moremdasheasy-to-read fonts
Fonts Be very sparing of fancy font usage If used too much they only serve to distract from your writing and some can be quite unreadable
Fancy fonts have no place in articles or books unless they are meant to be more decorative than functionalmdashperhaps as part of a heading or chapter title
Photos and other You have inserted your supporting materials in the correct positions
Tweak You have tweaked your formatting to allow captions and titles for photos or illustrations or charts if need be
White space Yoursquove got white space around all your graphs illustrations and photos and some good margins for notes
So ultimately (and in accordance with the ldquolookrdquo you give your book with fonts and illustration) your book or article might look like this
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
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Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
Writing articles for free publicity
What do you write aboutText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text
text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text
ldquoYoursquore writing whatrdquo
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text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Add your quote here like this
ldquoPut your future in good handsyour ownrdquo
Mark Victor Hansen
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
The End
copy Renalda Whodewhat 2006 All rights reserved You may feel free to use this article in your newsletter or ezine upon the condition that you agree keep 100 of the text illustrations and links intact Thanks TheUltimateWebsitecom RenaldaTheUltimateWebsitecom
________________________
Thatrsquos it Now go write edit build publish and sell your beautiful clear intelligently written books and articles
On the following pages I have listed all kinds of support andresources that I and my other writer-friends use
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 23 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
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Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 25 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 26 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
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5 Spelling amp punctuation can make or break your credibility
Print this section out and keep it near when you write It will save your butt more times than yoursquoll ever believe
a Sounds silly but remember to use Spellcheck
Andmdasheven though you have diligently gone through and corrected with Spellcheck make sure your word usage is correct
b Pay careful attention to these words your and yoursquore there and their its and itrsquos Spell check wonrsquot find or correct them
When you say ldquoThere house burned downrdquo you look like an idiot and lose credibility Immediately No matter who you are or how popular or how much money you make
When you say ldquoTheir house burned downrdquo no one noticesmdash because itrsquos correct Mistakes are mind-stoppers Mistakes make the reader stop comprehending what he is reading to think about what was said so his eyes continuemdashbut miss the message
Avoid mind-stoppers that stop your readersrsquo train of thought by making them have to stop and figure out what you meant making them think you are uneducated and making them wonder if you are as smart as you claim to be if you make mistakes like this
WRONG ldquoYour going to the storerdquoRIGHT ldquoYoursquore going to the storerdquo
WRONG ldquoYoursquore computer just blew uprdquoRIGHT ldquoYour computer just blew uprdquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
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WRONG ldquoIts about timerdquoRIGHT ldquoItrsquos about timerdquo
WRONG Seeing itrsquos nose surprised meRIGHT Seeing its nose surprised me
Its and itrsquos seem backwards from how we think they ought to logically be used We think itrsquos ought to be possessive But it isnrsquot Herersquos why
Itrsquos is a contractionmdasha shorteningmdashof it and is
Its is the possessive form Example Its head was green and pointed(NOT Itrsquos head)
WRONG Itrsquos foot got stuck itrsquos memory card was shot RIGHT Its foot got stuck its memory card was shot
Correct Contraction Itrsquos hotCorrect Possessive Its nose burned from the heat
Be really careful because in the wrong places the incorrect use of these words will totally undermine your credibility and radically reduce the faith and trust yoursquore trying to build in your readers
c Apostrophe overload Possession and plurals
The incorrect use of the possessive form to make things or persons pluralmdashmore than onemdashgets me ranting every time as in They said their horsersquos went over the hill
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 12 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
NO They said their horsersquos went over the hillThis lsquos indicates possession Horses over the hill donrsquot own anything here
YES They said their horses went over the hill PluralYES ldquoThe horsesrsquo tails were flying as they ran over the hillrdquo is correct Possessivemdashthe tails they own are flying
NO There are resourcersquos in the boxThere are resources in the box Resources donrsquot own anything here
YES There are resources in the box PluralYES ldquoThe resourcersquos best part is rdquo is correct Possessive - the best part of the resource NO Breakthroughrsquos In PersuasionBreakthroughs donrsquot own anything here
YES Breakthroughs In Persuasion PluralYES ldquoMy breakthroughrsquos worst part was when such and such happenedrdquo that usage would be correct Possessive
Do you see the difference
And YES lsquo90s MP3s CDs NO lsquo90rsquos MP3rsquos CDrsquosThe form to use to show a person or thing possessing is Samrsquos hat the carrsquos door Arnoldrsquos accent Motherrsquos skirt the bookrsquos chapter headings Plural Possession The horsesrsquo tails
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 13 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
d Punctuation
So many people blow this one
1 To indicate a pause use a comma not WRONG If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it RIGHT If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it
WRONG When he went away she became lonelyRIGHT When he went away she became lonely
2 When using quotes punctuation goes INSIDE themWRONG She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo RIGHT She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo
However if an end-word is in quotations the punctuation goes outside the quote marksWRONG Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquoRIGHT Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquo
e Pauses
Copywriters are told ldquoWrite like you speak so you can sound famil-iarrdquo But contrary to what people say when you write like you speak you need to remember that a pause in speech is not structured the same as a pause in writing
WRONG Now you have to remember when you leave the door open the flies come inRIGHT Now you have to remember that when you leave the door open the flies come in
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 14 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
f Spacing
One space between sentences It used to be two now itrsquos OK to use only one
6 Hisher theytheir
Herersquos what most people write If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See anything wrong with that
Probably not because this incorrect usage is so prevalent
Here is how it ought to be writtenIf a person wants he can leave his shoes out front
Take this sentence apart If A person wants to THEY can leave
What How did ONE person become THEY
However most of us donrsquot want to hassle over whether to say he or she him or her or hers or his
Therersquos a way to get around that
Herersquos how we say it wrongWRONG If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See how weird that is Since when is one person a ldquotheyrdquoRIGHT ldquoIf PEOPLE want THEY can leave their shoes out frontrdquo That is much more congruent See PEOPLE THEY
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 15 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Itrsquos either ONE person (says) he or she (thinks this or that)OR
PEOPLE (say) THEY (think this or that)
7 The correct usage of dots
Within a sentence use three dots to indicate that some part of a text is missing as in a quote from someoneWhen she saw thatshe really looked worried
At the end of a sentence use four dots to indicate something miss-ing or simply left to the imaginationThen he walked down into the foggy valley
Avoid using dots to indicate a pause within the sentence
8 Whom and who
I think whoever (NOT whomever) started dredging up the word ldquowhomrdquo a few years ago ought to be shot
Perhaps it started in a movie script written by someone who wanted the character to seem educated I donrsquot know
But every time I hear someone ay ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo my guts shrivel I donrsquot think there is any other word as badly misused Did you know that the way whom ought to be used is
ldquoWith whom are you going to the partyrdquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 16 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
BUTmdashare you really going to say that I donrsquot think so
We want to sound intelligent yes But not stilted
We say more commonly ldquoWho are you going withrdquo
The whole flap is because we arenrsquot supposed to have those ldquodangling participlesrdquo at the end of our sentence or question Like ldquoWho are you going withrdquo Or ldquoWhorsquod you give it tordquo
When you say ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo yoursquore making not only one blunder but a double blunder Poor old Miss Pine your ninth-grade very correct English teacher would do spin cycles in her grave Whom is used incorrectly and therersquos that dumb dangling participle
Herersquos how to use the ldquowhomrdquo wordNO ldquoWhom are you going withrdquoYES ldquoWith whom are you goingrdquo
OK If you just canrsquot get yourself to say that then say ldquoWho are you going withrdquo At least that sounds less stilted and no matter that the ldquowithrdquo dangles
Before you start writing copy for an ad or writing your book choose the group to whom you are writing (seemdashdoesnrsquot that sound good) Do you want to sound casual Or is it more important to sound educated or business-likemdashor even stilted Maybe your bookrsquos character is supposed to sound stilted Itrsquos important to know how to choose so you can choose
If casual use ldquoWho are you going withrdquo or ldquogive tordquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 17 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
If business use ldquowith whomrdquo or ldquoto whomrdquo
NO ldquoThe president whom you were seen with last nightrdquoYES ldquoThe president with whom you were seenrdquo OK ldquoThe president who you were seen with last nightrdquo
NO ldquoMartha whom he danced with in 1978 met himrdquoYES ldquoMartha with whom he danced in 1978 met himrdquoOK ldquoMartha who he danced with in 1978 met himrdquo
NO ldquoDr Jacobs whom he dedicated the book tordquoYES ldquoDr Jacobs to whom he dedicated the bookrdquoOK ldquoDr Jacobs who he dedicated the book tordquo
(Understand please OK means the usage is OK but certainly not great and still would make Miss Pine [to whom these things were most important] suffer even if she has been gone all these years)
9 Placement of illustrations amp quotes
If you have places within the text where an illustration will go when the book or article is complete write your draft like this
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on After the end of your paragraph right here leave room for your to-be-added photo or illustration and make appropriatenotes to indicate to yourself or your assistant what goes here like this
Illustration 3 hereOptional title of photo here
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 18 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
phot
o M
elis
sa Ir
elan
d
Credits Photo or art credit goes here small or at 90 degrees to pageAlso make sure you have filed the relevant photo so you can find it easily so itrsquos ready to insert into your almost-final drafts
Only format the text to fit around your illustration after your text is finalized This is really important If you insert all your images prematurely when you delete add or change text they will each also have to be adjusted
Hold off Be patient Itrsquos worth itmdashyoursquoll literally save yourself HOURS of readjusting Wait until your text is done before you insert your images When your text is final and you have inserted the image it can look like this one does See how the image sits nicely within the body of the text with that nice
white space around it lots of room for it to breathe
Quotes Make a place for a quote within your text indicating where it goes like this
Leave two lines between the text and the quoteIndicate quote here
When you format make the font a bit larger more bold or italic or centered
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on and so on
There are as many ways to include quotes as there are people writing books I like to leave two line spaces before and after the quote and I center it in boldmdashor as in this book in a font that naturally aligns in appearance with the title font
Like this
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Time flies when I write
Others like to put their quote on the margin moving the text over a bit or in a box or in a space indented into the text just the way
this little example is or the way the image on the previous page looks
In the books I designed for EFT Master Rue Hass recently I made the quotes quite bold because they were strong statements and needed a corresponding look
You are literally what you think
As you can see I also enlarged and used an emphasizing color for the most important words in the quote to push home the essence of the message
If you have ever seen any of manifestos that top business critic Tom Peters writes yoursquoll see a similar very edgy choice of font color and emphasis His manifestos are quite brilliant
Irsquom sure yours will be too So many choices you can make other than Courier Times and straight left and right justified formatting
ldquoTime flies when I writerdquo- Angela Treat Lyon
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Your finished bookmdashA Recap
Write You have written your text collected your quotes illustrations and other supporting material
Edit You have made sure your spelling and other text errors are eliminated
Format You have formatted your text using the guidelines set out in the beginning of this book using your favorite ONE OR TWO mdashand no moremdasheasy-to-read fonts
Fonts Be very sparing of fancy font usage If used too much they only serve to distract from your writing and some can be quite unreadable
Fancy fonts have no place in articles or books unless they are meant to be more decorative than functionalmdashperhaps as part of a heading or chapter title
Photos and other You have inserted your supporting materials in the correct positions
Tweak You have tweaked your formatting to allow captions and titles for photos or illustrations or charts if need be
White space Yoursquove got white space around all your graphs illustrations and photos and some good margins for notes
So ultimately (and in accordance with the ldquolookrdquo you give your book with fonts and illustration) your book or article might look like this
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Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
Writing articles for free publicity
What do you write aboutText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text
text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text
ldquoYoursquore writing whatrdquo
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text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Add your quote here like this
ldquoPut your future in good handsyour ownrdquo
Mark Victor Hansen
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
The End
copy Renalda Whodewhat 2006 All rights reserved You may feel free to use this article in your newsletter or ezine upon the condition that you agree keep 100 of the text illustrations and links intact Thanks TheUltimateWebsitecom RenaldaTheUltimateWebsitecom
________________________
Thatrsquos it Now go write edit build publish and sell your beautiful clear intelligently written books and articles
On the following pages I have listed all kinds of support andresources that I and my other writer-friends use
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
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Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 24 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 25 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 26 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 11 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
WRONG ldquoIts about timerdquoRIGHT ldquoItrsquos about timerdquo
WRONG Seeing itrsquos nose surprised meRIGHT Seeing its nose surprised me
Its and itrsquos seem backwards from how we think they ought to logically be used We think itrsquos ought to be possessive But it isnrsquot Herersquos why
Itrsquos is a contractionmdasha shorteningmdashof it and is
Its is the possessive form Example Its head was green and pointed(NOT Itrsquos head)
WRONG Itrsquos foot got stuck itrsquos memory card was shot RIGHT Its foot got stuck its memory card was shot
Correct Contraction Itrsquos hotCorrect Possessive Its nose burned from the heat
Be really careful because in the wrong places the incorrect use of these words will totally undermine your credibility and radically reduce the faith and trust yoursquore trying to build in your readers
c Apostrophe overload Possession and plurals
The incorrect use of the possessive form to make things or persons pluralmdashmore than onemdashgets me ranting every time as in They said their horsersquos went over the hill
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 12 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
NO They said their horsersquos went over the hillThis lsquos indicates possession Horses over the hill donrsquot own anything here
YES They said their horses went over the hill PluralYES ldquoThe horsesrsquo tails were flying as they ran over the hillrdquo is correct Possessivemdashthe tails they own are flying
NO There are resourcersquos in the boxThere are resources in the box Resources donrsquot own anything here
YES There are resources in the box PluralYES ldquoThe resourcersquos best part is rdquo is correct Possessive - the best part of the resource NO Breakthroughrsquos In PersuasionBreakthroughs donrsquot own anything here
YES Breakthroughs In Persuasion PluralYES ldquoMy breakthroughrsquos worst part was when such and such happenedrdquo that usage would be correct Possessive
Do you see the difference
And YES lsquo90s MP3s CDs NO lsquo90rsquos MP3rsquos CDrsquosThe form to use to show a person or thing possessing is Samrsquos hat the carrsquos door Arnoldrsquos accent Motherrsquos skirt the bookrsquos chapter headings Plural Possession The horsesrsquo tails
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 13 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
d Punctuation
So many people blow this one
1 To indicate a pause use a comma not WRONG If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it RIGHT If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it
WRONG When he went away she became lonelyRIGHT When he went away she became lonely
2 When using quotes punctuation goes INSIDE themWRONG She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo RIGHT She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo
However if an end-word is in quotations the punctuation goes outside the quote marksWRONG Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquoRIGHT Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquo
e Pauses
Copywriters are told ldquoWrite like you speak so you can sound famil-iarrdquo But contrary to what people say when you write like you speak you need to remember that a pause in speech is not structured the same as a pause in writing
WRONG Now you have to remember when you leave the door open the flies come inRIGHT Now you have to remember that when you leave the door open the flies come in
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 14 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
f Spacing
One space between sentences It used to be two now itrsquos OK to use only one
6 Hisher theytheir
Herersquos what most people write If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See anything wrong with that
Probably not because this incorrect usage is so prevalent
Here is how it ought to be writtenIf a person wants he can leave his shoes out front
Take this sentence apart If A person wants to THEY can leave
What How did ONE person become THEY
However most of us donrsquot want to hassle over whether to say he or she him or her or hers or his
Therersquos a way to get around that
Herersquos how we say it wrongWRONG If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See how weird that is Since when is one person a ldquotheyrdquoRIGHT ldquoIf PEOPLE want THEY can leave their shoes out frontrdquo That is much more congruent See PEOPLE THEY
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 15 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Itrsquos either ONE person (says) he or she (thinks this or that)OR
PEOPLE (say) THEY (think this or that)
7 The correct usage of dots
Within a sentence use three dots to indicate that some part of a text is missing as in a quote from someoneWhen she saw thatshe really looked worried
At the end of a sentence use four dots to indicate something miss-ing or simply left to the imaginationThen he walked down into the foggy valley
Avoid using dots to indicate a pause within the sentence
8 Whom and who
I think whoever (NOT whomever) started dredging up the word ldquowhomrdquo a few years ago ought to be shot
Perhaps it started in a movie script written by someone who wanted the character to seem educated I donrsquot know
But every time I hear someone ay ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo my guts shrivel I donrsquot think there is any other word as badly misused Did you know that the way whom ought to be used is
ldquoWith whom are you going to the partyrdquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 16 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
BUTmdashare you really going to say that I donrsquot think so
We want to sound intelligent yes But not stilted
We say more commonly ldquoWho are you going withrdquo
The whole flap is because we arenrsquot supposed to have those ldquodangling participlesrdquo at the end of our sentence or question Like ldquoWho are you going withrdquo Or ldquoWhorsquod you give it tordquo
When you say ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo yoursquore making not only one blunder but a double blunder Poor old Miss Pine your ninth-grade very correct English teacher would do spin cycles in her grave Whom is used incorrectly and therersquos that dumb dangling participle
Herersquos how to use the ldquowhomrdquo wordNO ldquoWhom are you going withrdquoYES ldquoWith whom are you goingrdquo
OK If you just canrsquot get yourself to say that then say ldquoWho are you going withrdquo At least that sounds less stilted and no matter that the ldquowithrdquo dangles
Before you start writing copy for an ad or writing your book choose the group to whom you are writing (seemdashdoesnrsquot that sound good) Do you want to sound casual Or is it more important to sound educated or business-likemdashor even stilted Maybe your bookrsquos character is supposed to sound stilted Itrsquos important to know how to choose so you can choose
If casual use ldquoWho are you going withrdquo or ldquogive tordquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 17 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
If business use ldquowith whomrdquo or ldquoto whomrdquo
NO ldquoThe president whom you were seen with last nightrdquoYES ldquoThe president with whom you were seenrdquo OK ldquoThe president who you were seen with last nightrdquo
NO ldquoMartha whom he danced with in 1978 met himrdquoYES ldquoMartha with whom he danced in 1978 met himrdquoOK ldquoMartha who he danced with in 1978 met himrdquo
NO ldquoDr Jacobs whom he dedicated the book tordquoYES ldquoDr Jacobs to whom he dedicated the bookrdquoOK ldquoDr Jacobs who he dedicated the book tordquo
(Understand please OK means the usage is OK but certainly not great and still would make Miss Pine [to whom these things were most important] suffer even if she has been gone all these years)
9 Placement of illustrations amp quotes
If you have places within the text where an illustration will go when the book or article is complete write your draft like this
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on After the end of your paragraph right here leave room for your to-be-added photo or illustration and make appropriatenotes to indicate to yourself or your assistant what goes here like this
Illustration 3 hereOptional title of photo here
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 18 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
phot
o M
elis
sa Ir
elan
d
Credits Photo or art credit goes here small or at 90 degrees to pageAlso make sure you have filed the relevant photo so you can find it easily so itrsquos ready to insert into your almost-final drafts
Only format the text to fit around your illustration after your text is finalized This is really important If you insert all your images prematurely when you delete add or change text they will each also have to be adjusted
Hold off Be patient Itrsquos worth itmdashyoursquoll literally save yourself HOURS of readjusting Wait until your text is done before you insert your images When your text is final and you have inserted the image it can look like this one does See how the image sits nicely within the body of the text with that nice
white space around it lots of room for it to breathe
Quotes Make a place for a quote within your text indicating where it goes like this
Leave two lines between the text and the quoteIndicate quote here
When you format make the font a bit larger more bold or italic or centered
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on and so on
There are as many ways to include quotes as there are people writing books I like to leave two line spaces before and after the quote and I center it in boldmdashor as in this book in a font that naturally aligns in appearance with the title font
Like this
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 19 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Time flies when I write
Others like to put their quote on the margin moving the text over a bit or in a box or in a space indented into the text just the way
this little example is or the way the image on the previous page looks
In the books I designed for EFT Master Rue Hass recently I made the quotes quite bold because they were strong statements and needed a corresponding look
You are literally what you think
As you can see I also enlarged and used an emphasizing color for the most important words in the quote to push home the essence of the message
If you have ever seen any of manifestos that top business critic Tom Peters writes yoursquoll see a similar very edgy choice of font color and emphasis His manifestos are quite brilliant
Irsquom sure yours will be too So many choices you can make other than Courier Times and straight left and right justified formatting
ldquoTime flies when I writerdquo- Angela Treat Lyon
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 20 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Your finished bookmdashA Recap
Write You have written your text collected your quotes illustrations and other supporting material
Edit You have made sure your spelling and other text errors are eliminated
Format You have formatted your text using the guidelines set out in the beginning of this book using your favorite ONE OR TWO mdashand no moremdasheasy-to-read fonts
Fonts Be very sparing of fancy font usage If used too much they only serve to distract from your writing and some can be quite unreadable
Fancy fonts have no place in articles or books unless they are meant to be more decorative than functionalmdashperhaps as part of a heading or chapter title
Photos and other You have inserted your supporting materials in the correct positions
Tweak You have tweaked your formatting to allow captions and titles for photos or illustrations or charts if need be
White space Yoursquove got white space around all your graphs illustrations and photos and some good margins for notes
So ultimately (and in accordance with the ldquolookrdquo you give your book with fonts and illustration) your book or article might look like this
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 21 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
Writing articles for free publicity
What do you write aboutText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text
text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text
ldquoYoursquore writing whatrdquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 22 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Add your quote here like this
ldquoPut your future in good handsyour ownrdquo
Mark Victor Hansen
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
The End
copy Renalda Whodewhat 2006 All rights reserved You may feel free to use this article in your newsletter or ezine upon the condition that you agree keep 100 of the text illustrations and links intact Thanks TheUltimateWebsitecom RenaldaTheUltimateWebsitecom
________________________
Thatrsquos it Now go write edit build publish and sell your beautiful clear intelligently written books and articles
On the following pages I have listed all kinds of support andresources that I and my other writer-friends use
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 23 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 24 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 25 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 26 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 12 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
NO They said their horsersquos went over the hillThis lsquos indicates possession Horses over the hill donrsquot own anything here
YES They said their horses went over the hill PluralYES ldquoThe horsesrsquo tails were flying as they ran over the hillrdquo is correct Possessivemdashthe tails they own are flying
NO There are resourcersquos in the boxThere are resources in the box Resources donrsquot own anything here
YES There are resources in the box PluralYES ldquoThe resourcersquos best part is rdquo is correct Possessive - the best part of the resource NO Breakthroughrsquos In PersuasionBreakthroughs donrsquot own anything here
YES Breakthroughs In Persuasion PluralYES ldquoMy breakthroughrsquos worst part was when such and such happenedrdquo that usage would be correct Possessive
Do you see the difference
And YES lsquo90s MP3s CDs NO lsquo90rsquos MP3rsquos CDrsquosThe form to use to show a person or thing possessing is Samrsquos hat the carrsquos door Arnoldrsquos accent Motherrsquos skirt the bookrsquos chapter headings Plural Possession The horsesrsquo tails
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 13 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
d Punctuation
So many people blow this one
1 To indicate a pause use a comma not WRONG If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it RIGHT If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it
WRONG When he went away she became lonelyRIGHT When he went away she became lonely
2 When using quotes punctuation goes INSIDE themWRONG She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo RIGHT She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo
However if an end-word is in quotations the punctuation goes outside the quote marksWRONG Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquoRIGHT Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquo
e Pauses
Copywriters are told ldquoWrite like you speak so you can sound famil-iarrdquo But contrary to what people say when you write like you speak you need to remember that a pause in speech is not structured the same as a pause in writing
WRONG Now you have to remember when you leave the door open the flies come inRIGHT Now you have to remember that when you leave the door open the flies come in
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 14 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
f Spacing
One space between sentences It used to be two now itrsquos OK to use only one
6 Hisher theytheir
Herersquos what most people write If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See anything wrong with that
Probably not because this incorrect usage is so prevalent
Here is how it ought to be writtenIf a person wants he can leave his shoes out front
Take this sentence apart If A person wants to THEY can leave
What How did ONE person become THEY
However most of us donrsquot want to hassle over whether to say he or she him or her or hers or his
Therersquos a way to get around that
Herersquos how we say it wrongWRONG If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See how weird that is Since when is one person a ldquotheyrdquoRIGHT ldquoIf PEOPLE want THEY can leave their shoes out frontrdquo That is much more congruent See PEOPLE THEY
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 15 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Itrsquos either ONE person (says) he or she (thinks this or that)OR
PEOPLE (say) THEY (think this or that)
7 The correct usage of dots
Within a sentence use three dots to indicate that some part of a text is missing as in a quote from someoneWhen she saw thatshe really looked worried
At the end of a sentence use four dots to indicate something miss-ing or simply left to the imaginationThen he walked down into the foggy valley
Avoid using dots to indicate a pause within the sentence
8 Whom and who
I think whoever (NOT whomever) started dredging up the word ldquowhomrdquo a few years ago ought to be shot
Perhaps it started in a movie script written by someone who wanted the character to seem educated I donrsquot know
But every time I hear someone ay ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo my guts shrivel I donrsquot think there is any other word as badly misused Did you know that the way whom ought to be used is
ldquoWith whom are you going to the partyrdquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 16 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
BUTmdashare you really going to say that I donrsquot think so
We want to sound intelligent yes But not stilted
We say more commonly ldquoWho are you going withrdquo
The whole flap is because we arenrsquot supposed to have those ldquodangling participlesrdquo at the end of our sentence or question Like ldquoWho are you going withrdquo Or ldquoWhorsquod you give it tordquo
When you say ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo yoursquore making not only one blunder but a double blunder Poor old Miss Pine your ninth-grade very correct English teacher would do spin cycles in her grave Whom is used incorrectly and therersquos that dumb dangling participle
Herersquos how to use the ldquowhomrdquo wordNO ldquoWhom are you going withrdquoYES ldquoWith whom are you goingrdquo
OK If you just canrsquot get yourself to say that then say ldquoWho are you going withrdquo At least that sounds less stilted and no matter that the ldquowithrdquo dangles
Before you start writing copy for an ad or writing your book choose the group to whom you are writing (seemdashdoesnrsquot that sound good) Do you want to sound casual Or is it more important to sound educated or business-likemdashor even stilted Maybe your bookrsquos character is supposed to sound stilted Itrsquos important to know how to choose so you can choose
If casual use ldquoWho are you going withrdquo or ldquogive tordquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 17 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
If business use ldquowith whomrdquo or ldquoto whomrdquo
NO ldquoThe president whom you were seen with last nightrdquoYES ldquoThe president with whom you were seenrdquo OK ldquoThe president who you were seen with last nightrdquo
NO ldquoMartha whom he danced with in 1978 met himrdquoYES ldquoMartha with whom he danced in 1978 met himrdquoOK ldquoMartha who he danced with in 1978 met himrdquo
NO ldquoDr Jacobs whom he dedicated the book tordquoYES ldquoDr Jacobs to whom he dedicated the bookrdquoOK ldquoDr Jacobs who he dedicated the book tordquo
(Understand please OK means the usage is OK but certainly not great and still would make Miss Pine [to whom these things were most important] suffer even if she has been gone all these years)
9 Placement of illustrations amp quotes
If you have places within the text where an illustration will go when the book or article is complete write your draft like this
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on After the end of your paragraph right here leave room for your to-be-added photo or illustration and make appropriatenotes to indicate to yourself or your assistant what goes here like this
Illustration 3 hereOptional title of photo here
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 18 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
phot
o M
elis
sa Ir
elan
d
Credits Photo or art credit goes here small or at 90 degrees to pageAlso make sure you have filed the relevant photo so you can find it easily so itrsquos ready to insert into your almost-final drafts
Only format the text to fit around your illustration after your text is finalized This is really important If you insert all your images prematurely when you delete add or change text they will each also have to be adjusted
Hold off Be patient Itrsquos worth itmdashyoursquoll literally save yourself HOURS of readjusting Wait until your text is done before you insert your images When your text is final and you have inserted the image it can look like this one does See how the image sits nicely within the body of the text with that nice
white space around it lots of room for it to breathe
Quotes Make a place for a quote within your text indicating where it goes like this
Leave two lines between the text and the quoteIndicate quote here
When you format make the font a bit larger more bold or italic or centered
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on and so on
There are as many ways to include quotes as there are people writing books I like to leave two line spaces before and after the quote and I center it in boldmdashor as in this book in a font that naturally aligns in appearance with the title font
Like this
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 19 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Time flies when I write
Others like to put their quote on the margin moving the text over a bit or in a box or in a space indented into the text just the way
this little example is or the way the image on the previous page looks
In the books I designed for EFT Master Rue Hass recently I made the quotes quite bold because they were strong statements and needed a corresponding look
You are literally what you think
As you can see I also enlarged and used an emphasizing color for the most important words in the quote to push home the essence of the message
If you have ever seen any of manifestos that top business critic Tom Peters writes yoursquoll see a similar very edgy choice of font color and emphasis His manifestos are quite brilliant
Irsquom sure yours will be too So many choices you can make other than Courier Times and straight left and right justified formatting
ldquoTime flies when I writerdquo- Angela Treat Lyon
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 20 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Your finished bookmdashA Recap
Write You have written your text collected your quotes illustrations and other supporting material
Edit You have made sure your spelling and other text errors are eliminated
Format You have formatted your text using the guidelines set out in the beginning of this book using your favorite ONE OR TWO mdashand no moremdasheasy-to-read fonts
Fonts Be very sparing of fancy font usage If used too much they only serve to distract from your writing and some can be quite unreadable
Fancy fonts have no place in articles or books unless they are meant to be more decorative than functionalmdashperhaps as part of a heading or chapter title
Photos and other You have inserted your supporting materials in the correct positions
Tweak You have tweaked your formatting to allow captions and titles for photos or illustrations or charts if need be
White space Yoursquove got white space around all your graphs illustrations and photos and some good margins for notes
So ultimately (and in accordance with the ldquolookrdquo you give your book with fonts and illustration) your book or article might look like this
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 21 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
Writing articles for free publicity
What do you write aboutText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text
text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text
ldquoYoursquore writing whatrdquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 22 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Add your quote here like this
ldquoPut your future in good handsyour ownrdquo
Mark Victor Hansen
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
The End
copy Renalda Whodewhat 2006 All rights reserved You may feel free to use this article in your newsletter or ezine upon the condition that you agree keep 100 of the text illustrations and links intact Thanks TheUltimateWebsitecom RenaldaTheUltimateWebsitecom
________________________
Thatrsquos it Now go write edit build publish and sell your beautiful clear intelligently written books and articles
On the following pages I have listed all kinds of support andresources that I and my other writer-friends use
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 23 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 24 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 25 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 26 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 13 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
d Punctuation
So many people blow this one
1 To indicate a pause use a comma not WRONG If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it RIGHT If you donrsquot do that yoursquoll regret it
WRONG When he went away she became lonelyRIGHT When he went away she became lonely
2 When using quotes punctuation goes INSIDE themWRONG She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo RIGHT She exclaimed ldquoHe left merdquo
However if an end-word is in quotations the punctuation goes outside the quote marksWRONG Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquoRIGHT Donrsquot you think things are ldquoweirdrdquo
e Pauses
Copywriters are told ldquoWrite like you speak so you can sound famil-iarrdquo But contrary to what people say when you write like you speak you need to remember that a pause in speech is not structured the same as a pause in writing
WRONG Now you have to remember when you leave the door open the flies come inRIGHT Now you have to remember that when you leave the door open the flies come in
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 14 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
f Spacing
One space between sentences It used to be two now itrsquos OK to use only one
6 Hisher theytheir
Herersquos what most people write If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See anything wrong with that
Probably not because this incorrect usage is so prevalent
Here is how it ought to be writtenIf a person wants he can leave his shoes out front
Take this sentence apart If A person wants to THEY can leave
What How did ONE person become THEY
However most of us donrsquot want to hassle over whether to say he or she him or her or hers or his
Therersquos a way to get around that
Herersquos how we say it wrongWRONG If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See how weird that is Since when is one person a ldquotheyrdquoRIGHT ldquoIf PEOPLE want THEY can leave their shoes out frontrdquo That is much more congruent See PEOPLE THEY
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 15 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Itrsquos either ONE person (says) he or she (thinks this or that)OR
PEOPLE (say) THEY (think this or that)
7 The correct usage of dots
Within a sentence use three dots to indicate that some part of a text is missing as in a quote from someoneWhen she saw thatshe really looked worried
At the end of a sentence use four dots to indicate something miss-ing or simply left to the imaginationThen he walked down into the foggy valley
Avoid using dots to indicate a pause within the sentence
8 Whom and who
I think whoever (NOT whomever) started dredging up the word ldquowhomrdquo a few years ago ought to be shot
Perhaps it started in a movie script written by someone who wanted the character to seem educated I donrsquot know
But every time I hear someone ay ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo my guts shrivel I donrsquot think there is any other word as badly misused Did you know that the way whom ought to be used is
ldquoWith whom are you going to the partyrdquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 16 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
BUTmdashare you really going to say that I donrsquot think so
We want to sound intelligent yes But not stilted
We say more commonly ldquoWho are you going withrdquo
The whole flap is because we arenrsquot supposed to have those ldquodangling participlesrdquo at the end of our sentence or question Like ldquoWho are you going withrdquo Or ldquoWhorsquod you give it tordquo
When you say ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo yoursquore making not only one blunder but a double blunder Poor old Miss Pine your ninth-grade very correct English teacher would do spin cycles in her grave Whom is used incorrectly and therersquos that dumb dangling participle
Herersquos how to use the ldquowhomrdquo wordNO ldquoWhom are you going withrdquoYES ldquoWith whom are you goingrdquo
OK If you just canrsquot get yourself to say that then say ldquoWho are you going withrdquo At least that sounds less stilted and no matter that the ldquowithrdquo dangles
Before you start writing copy for an ad or writing your book choose the group to whom you are writing (seemdashdoesnrsquot that sound good) Do you want to sound casual Or is it more important to sound educated or business-likemdashor even stilted Maybe your bookrsquos character is supposed to sound stilted Itrsquos important to know how to choose so you can choose
If casual use ldquoWho are you going withrdquo or ldquogive tordquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 17 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
If business use ldquowith whomrdquo or ldquoto whomrdquo
NO ldquoThe president whom you were seen with last nightrdquoYES ldquoThe president with whom you were seenrdquo OK ldquoThe president who you were seen with last nightrdquo
NO ldquoMartha whom he danced with in 1978 met himrdquoYES ldquoMartha with whom he danced in 1978 met himrdquoOK ldquoMartha who he danced with in 1978 met himrdquo
NO ldquoDr Jacobs whom he dedicated the book tordquoYES ldquoDr Jacobs to whom he dedicated the bookrdquoOK ldquoDr Jacobs who he dedicated the book tordquo
(Understand please OK means the usage is OK but certainly not great and still would make Miss Pine [to whom these things were most important] suffer even if she has been gone all these years)
9 Placement of illustrations amp quotes
If you have places within the text where an illustration will go when the book or article is complete write your draft like this
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on After the end of your paragraph right here leave room for your to-be-added photo or illustration and make appropriatenotes to indicate to yourself or your assistant what goes here like this
Illustration 3 hereOptional title of photo here
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 18 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
phot
o M
elis
sa Ir
elan
d
Credits Photo or art credit goes here small or at 90 degrees to pageAlso make sure you have filed the relevant photo so you can find it easily so itrsquos ready to insert into your almost-final drafts
Only format the text to fit around your illustration after your text is finalized This is really important If you insert all your images prematurely when you delete add or change text they will each also have to be adjusted
Hold off Be patient Itrsquos worth itmdashyoursquoll literally save yourself HOURS of readjusting Wait until your text is done before you insert your images When your text is final and you have inserted the image it can look like this one does See how the image sits nicely within the body of the text with that nice
white space around it lots of room for it to breathe
Quotes Make a place for a quote within your text indicating where it goes like this
Leave two lines between the text and the quoteIndicate quote here
When you format make the font a bit larger more bold or italic or centered
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on and so on
There are as many ways to include quotes as there are people writing books I like to leave two line spaces before and after the quote and I center it in boldmdashor as in this book in a font that naturally aligns in appearance with the title font
Like this
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 19 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Time flies when I write
Others like to put their quote on the margin moving the text over a bit or in a box or in a space indented into the text just the way
this little example is or the way the image on the previous page looks
In the books I designed for EFT Master Rue Hass recently I made the quotes quite bold because they were strong statements and needed a corresponding look
You are literally what you think
As you can see I also enlarged and used an emphasizing color for the most important words in the quote to push home the essence of the message
If you have ever seen any of manifestos that top business critic Tom Peters writes yoursquoll see a similar very edgy choice of font color and emphasis His manifestos are quite brilliant
Irsquom sure yours will be too So many choices you can make other than Courier Times and straight left and right justified formatting
ldquoTime flies when I writerdquo- Angela Treat Lyon
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 20 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Your finished bookmdashA Recap
Write You have written your text collected your quotes illustrations and other supporting material
Edit You have made sure your spelling and other text errors are eliminated
Format You have formatted your text using the guidelines set out in the beginning of this book using your favorite ONE OR TWO mdashand no moremdasheasy-to-read fonts
Fonts Be very sparing of fancy font usage If used too much they only serve to distract from your writing and some can be quite unreadable
Fancy fonts have no place in articles or books unless they are meant to be more decorative than functionalmdashperhaps as part of a heading or chapter title
Photos and other You have inserted your supporting materials in the correct positions
Tweak You have tweaked your formatting to allow captions and titles for photos or illustrations or charts if need be
White space Yoursquove got white space around all your graphs illustrations and photos and some good margins for notes
So ultimately (and in accordance with the ldquolookrdquo you give your book with fonts and illustration) your book or article might look like this
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 21 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
Writing articles for free publicity
What do you write aboutText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text
text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text
ldquoYoursquore writing whatrdquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 22 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Add your quote here like this
ldquoPut your future in good handsyour ownrdquo
Mark Victor Hansen
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
The End
copy Renalda Whodewhat 2006 All rights reserved You may feel free to use this article in your newsletter or ezine upon the condition that you agree keep 100 of the text illustrations and links intact Thanks TheUltimateWebsitecom RenaldaTheUltimateWebsitecom
________________________
Thatrsquos it Now go write edit build publish and sell your beautiful clear intelligently written books and articles
On the following pages I have listed all kinds of support andresources that I and my other writer-friends use
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 23 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 24 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 25 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 26 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 14 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
f Spacing
One space between sentences It used to be two now itrsquos OK to use only one
6 Hisher theytheir
Herersquos what most people write If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See anything wrong with that
Probably not because this incorrect usage is so prevalent
Here is how it ought to be writtenIf a person wants he can leave his shoes out front
Take this sentence apart If A person wants to THEY can leave
What How did ONE person become THEY
However most of us donrsquot want to hassle over whether to say he or she him or her or hers or his
Therersquos a way to get around that
Herersquos how we say it wrongWRONG If a person wants to they can leave their shoes out front See how weird that is Since when is one person a ldquotheyrdquoRIGHT ldquoIf PEOPLE want THEY can leave their shoes out frontrdquo That is much more congruent See PEOPLE THEY
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 15 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Itrsquos either ONE person (says) he or she (thinks this or that)OR
PEOPLE (say) THEY (think this or that)
7 The correct usage of dots
Within a sentence use three dots to indicate that some part of a text is missing as in a quote from someoneWhen she saw thatshe really looked worried
At the end of a sentence use four dots to indicate something miss-ing or simply left to the imaginationThen he walked down into the foggy valley
Avoid using dots to indicate a pause within the sentence
8 Whom and who
I think whoever (NOT whomever) started dredging up the word ldquowhomrdquo a few years ago ought to be shot
Perhaps it started in a movie script written by someone who wanted the character to seem educated I donrsquot know
But every time I hear someone ay ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo my guts shrivel I donrsquot think there is any other word as badly misused Did you know that the way whom ought to be used is
ldquoWith whom are you going to the partyrdquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 16 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
BUTmdashare you really going to say that I donrsquot think so
We want to sound intelligent yes But not stilted
We say more commonly ldquoWho are you going withrdquo
The whole flap is because we arenrsquot supposed to have those ldquodangling participlesrdquo at the end of our sentence or question Like ldquoWho are you going withrdquo Or ldquoWhorsquod you give it tordquo
When you say ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo yoursquore making not only one blunder but a double blunder Poor old Miss Pine your ninth-grade very correct English teacher would do spin cycles in her grave Whom is used incorrectly and therersquos that dumb dangling participle
Herersquos how to use the ldquowhomrdquo wordNO ldquoWhom are you going withrdquoYES ldquoWith whom are you goingrdquo
OK If you just canrsquot get yourself to say that then say ldquoWho are you going withrdquo At least that sounds less stilted and no matter that the ldquowithrdquo dangles
Before you start writing copy for an ad or writing your book choose the group to whom you are writing (seemdashdoesnrsquot that sound good) Do you want to sound casual Or is it more important to sound educated or business-likemdashor even stilted Maybe your bookrsquos character is supposed to sound stilted Itrsquos important to know how to choose so you can choose
If casual use ldquoWho are you going withrdquo or ldquogive tordquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 17 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
If business use ldquowith whomrdquo or ldquoto whomrdquo
NO ldquoThe president whom you were seen with last nightrdquoYES ldquoThe president with whom you were seenrdquo OK ldquoThe president who you were seen with last nightrdquo
NO ldquoMartha whom he danced with in 1978 met himrdquoYES ldquoMartha with whom he danced in 1978 met himrdquoOK ldquoMartha who he danced with in 1978 met himrdquo
NO ldquoDr Jacobs whom he dedicated the book tordquoYES ldquoDr Jacobs to whom he dedicated the bookrdquoOK ldquoDr Jacobs who he dedicated the book tordquo
(Understand please OK means the usage is OK but certainly not great and still would make Miss Pine [to whom these things were most important] suffer even if she has been gone all these years)
9 Placement of illustrations amp quotes
If you have places within the text where an illustration will go when the book or article is complete write your draft like this
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on After the end of your paragraph right here leave room for your to-be-added photo or illustration and make appropriatenotes to indicate to yourself or your assistant what goes here like this
Illustration 3 hereOptional title of photo here
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 18 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
phot
o M
elis
sa Ir
elan
d
Credits Photo or art credit goes here small or at 90 degrees to pageAlso make sure you have filed the relevant photo so you can find it easily so itrsquos ready to insert into your almost-final drafts
Only format the text to fit around your illustration after your text is finalized This is really important If you insert all your images prematurely when you delete add or change text they will each also have to be adjusted
Hold off Be patient Itrsquos worth itmdashyoursquoll literally save yourself HOURS of readjusting Wait until your text is done before you insert your images When your text is final and you have inserted the image it can look like this one does See how the image sits nicely within the body of the text with that nice
white space around it lots of room for it to breathe
Quotes Make a place for a quote within your text indicating where it goes like this
Leave two lines between the text and the quoteIndicate quote here
When you format make the font a bit larger more bold or italic or centered
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on and so on
There are as many ways to include quotes as there are people writing books I like to leave two line spaces before and after the quote and I center it in boldmdashor as in this book in a font that naturally aligns in appearance with the title font
Like this
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 19 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Time flies when I write
Others like to put their quote on the margin moving the text over a bit or in a box or in a space indented into the text just the way
this little example is or the way the image on the previous page looks
In the books I designed for EFT Master Rue Hass recently I made the quotes quite bold because they were strong statements and needed a corresponding look
You are literally what you think
As you can see I also enlarged and used an emphasizing color for the most important words in the quote to push home the essence of the message
If you have ever seen any of manifestos that top business critic Tom Peters writes yoursquoll see a similar very edgy choice of font color and emphasis His manifestos are quite brilliant
Irsquom sure yours will be too So many choices you can make other than Courier Times and straight left and right justified formatting
ldquoTime flies when I writerdquo- Angela Treat Lyon
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 20 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Your finished bookmdashA Recap
Write You have written your text collected your quotes illustrations and other supporting material
Edit You have made sure your spelling and other text errors are eliminated
Format You have formatted your text using the guidelines set out in the beginning of this book using your favorite ONE OR TWO mdashand no moremdasheasy-to-read fonts
Fonts Be very sparing of fancy font usage If used too much they only serve to distract from your writing and some can be quite unreadable
Fancy fonts have no place in articles or books unless they are meant to be more decorative than functionalmdashperhaps as part of a heading or chapter title
Photos and other You have inserted your supporting materials in the correct positions
Tweak You have tweaked your formatting to allow captions and titles for photos or illustrations or charts if need be
White space Yoursquove got white space around all your graphs illustrations and photos and some good margins for notes
So ultimately (and in accordance with the ldquolookrdquo you give your book with fonts and illustration) your book or article might look like this
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 21 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
Writing articles for free publicity
What do you write aboutText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text
text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text
ldquoYoursquore writing whatrdquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 22 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Add your quote here like this
ldquoPut your future in good handsyour ownrdquo
Mark Victor Hansen
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
The End
copy Renalda Whodewhat 2006 All rights reserved You may feel free to use this article in your newsletter or ezine upon the condition that you agree keep 100 of the text illustrations and links intact Thanks TheUltimateWebsitecom RenaldaTheUltimateWebsitecom
________________________
Thatrsquos it Now go write edit build publish and sell your beautiful clear intelligently written books and articles
On the following pages I have listed all kinds of support andresources that I and my other writer-friends use
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 23 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 24 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 25 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 26 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 15 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Itrsquos either ONE person (says) he or she (thinks this or that)OR
PEOPLE (say) THEY (think this or that)
7 The correct usage of dots
Within a sentence use three dots to indicate that some part of a text is missing as in a quote from someoneWhen she saw thatshe really looked worried
At the end of a sentence use four dots to indicate something miss-ing or simply left to the imaginationThen he walked down into the foggy valley
Avoid using dots to indicate a pause within the sentence
8 Whom and who
I think whoever (NOT whomever) started dredging up the word ldquowhomrdquo a few years ago ought to be shot
Perhaps it started in a movie script written by someone who wanted the character to seem educated I donrsquot know
But every time I hear someone ay ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo my guts shrivel I donrsquot think there is any other word as badly misused Did you know that the way whom ought to be used is
ldquoWith whom are you going to the partyrdquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 16 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
BUTmdashare you really going to say that I donrsquot think so
We want to sound intelligent yes But not stilted
We say more commonly ldquoWho are you going withrdquo
The whole flap is because we arenrsquot supposed to have those ldquodangling participlesrdquo at the end of our sentence or question Like ldquoWho are you going withrdquo Or ldquoWhorsquod you give it tordquo
When you say ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo yoursquore making not only one blunder but a double blunder Poor old Miss Pine your ninth-grade very correct English teacher would do spin cycles in her grave Whom is used incorrectly and therersquos that dumb dangling participle
Herersquos how to use the ldquowhomrdquo wordNO ldquoWhom are you going withrdquoYES ldquoWith whom are you goingrdquo
OK If you just canrsquot get yourself to say that then say ldquoWho are you going withrdquo At least that sounds less stilted and no matter that the ldquowithrdquo dangles
Before you start writing copy for an ad or writing your book choose the group to whom you are writing (seemdashdoesnrsquot that sound good) Do you want to sound casual Or is it more important to sound educated or business-likemdashor even stilted Maybe your bookrsquos character is supposed to sound stilted Itrsquos important to know how to choose so you can choose
If casual use ldquoWho are you going withrdquo or ldquogive tordquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 17 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
If business use ldquowith whomrdquo or ldquoto whomrdquo
NO ldquoThe president whom you were seen with last nightrdquoYES ldquoThe president with whom you were seenrdquo OK ldquoThe president who you were seen with last nightrdquo
NO ldquoMartha whom he danced with in 1978 met himrdquoYES ldquoMartha with whom he danced in 1978 met himrdquoOK ldquoMartha who he danced with in 1978 met himrdquo
NO ldquoDr Jacobs whom he dedicated the book tordquoYES ldquoDr Jacobs to whom he dedicated the bookrdquoOK ldquoDr Jacobs who he dedicated the book tordquo
(Understand please OK means the usage is OK but certainly not great and still would make Miss Pine [to whom these things were most important] suffer even if she has been gone all these years)
9 Placement of illustrations amp quotes
If you have places within the text where an illustration will go when the book or article is complete write your draft like this
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on After the end of your paragraph right here leave room for your to-be-added photo or illustration and make appropriatenotes to indicate to yourself or your assistant what goes here like this
Illustration 3 hereOptional title of photo here
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 18 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
phot
o M
elis
sa Ir
elan
d
Credits Photo or art credit goes here small or at 90 degrees to pageAlso make sure you have filed the relevant photo so you can find it easily so itrsquos ready to insert into your almost-final drafts
Only format the text to fit around your illustration after your text is finalized This is really important If you insert all your images prematurely when you delete add or change text they will each also have to be adjusted
Hold off Be patient Itrsquos worth itmdashyoursquoll literally save yourself HOURS of readjusting Wait until your text is done before you insert your images When your text is final and you have inserted the image it can look like this one does See how the image sits nicely within the body of the text with that nice
white space around it lots of room for it to breathe
Quotes Make a place for a quote within your text indicating where it goes like this
Leave two lines between the text and the quoteIndicate quote here
When you format make the font a bit larger more bold or italic or centered
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on and so on
There are as many ways to include quotes as there are people writing books I like to leave two line spaces before and after the quote and I center it in boldmdashor as in this book in a font that naturally aligns in appearance with the title font
Like this
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 19 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Time flies when I write
Others like to put their quote on the margin moving the text over a bit or in a box or in a space indented into the text just the way
this little example is or the way the image on the previous page looks
In the books I designed for EFT Master Rue Hass recently I made the quotes quite bold because they were strong statements and needed a corresponding look
You are literally what you think
As you can see I also enlarged and used an emphasizing color for the most important words in the quote to push home the essence of the message
If you have ever seen any of manifestos that top business critic Tom Peters writes yoursquoll see a similar very edgy choice of font color and emphasis His manifestos are quite brilliant
Irsquom sure yours will be too So many choices you can make other than Courier Times and straight left and right justified formatting
ldquoTime flies when I writerdquo- Angela Treat Lyon
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 20 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Your finished bookmdashA Recap
Write You have written your text collected your quotes illustrations and other supporting material
Edit You have made sure your spelling and other text errors are eliminated
Format You have formatted your text using the guidelines set out in the beginning of this book using your favorite ONE OR TWO mdashand no moremdasheasy-to-read fonts
Fonts Be very sparing of fancy font usage If used too much they only serve to distract from your writing and some can be quite unreadable
Fancy fonts have no place in articles or books unless they are meant to be more decorative than functionalmdashperhaps as part of a heading or chapter title
Photos and other You have inserted your supporting materials in the correct positions
Tweak You have tweaked your formatting to allow captions and titles for photos or illustrations or charts if need be
White space Yoursquove got white space around all your graphs illustrations and photos and some good margins for notes
So ultimately (and in accordance with the ldquolookrdquo you give your book with fonts and illustration) your book or article might look like this
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 21 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
Writing articles for free publicity
What do you write aboutText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text
text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text
ldquoYoursquore writing whatrdquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 22 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Add your quote here like this
ldquoPut your future in good handsyour ownrdquo
Mark Victor Hansen
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
The End
copy Renalda Whodewhat 2006 All rights reserved You may feel free to use this article in your newsletter or ezine upon the condition that you agree keep 100 of the text illustrations and links intact Thanks TheUltimateWebsitecom RenaldaTheUltimateWebsitecom
________________________
Thatrsquos it Now go write edit build publish and sell your beautiful clear intelligently written books and articles
On the following pages I have listed all kinds of support andresources that I and my other writer-friends use
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 23 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 24 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 25 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 26 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 16 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
BUTmdashare you really going to say that I donrsquot think so
We want to sound intelligent yes But not stilted
We say more commonly ldquoWho are you going withrdquo
The whole flap is because we arenrsquot supposed to have those ldquodangling participlesrdquo at the end of our sentence or question Like ldquoWho are you going withrdquo Or ldquoWhorsquod you give it tordquo
When you say ldquoWhom are you going withrdquo yoursquore making not only one blunder but a double blunder Poor old Miss Pine your ninth-grade very correct English teacher would do spin cycles in her grave Whom is used incorrectly and therersquos that dumb dangling participle
Herersquos how to use the ldquowhomrdquo wordNO ldquoWhom are you going withrdquoYES ldquoWith whom are you goingrdquo
OK If you just canrsquot get yourself to say that then say ldquoWho are you going withrdquo At least that sounds less stilted and no matter that the ldquowithrdquo dangles
Before you start writing copy for an ad or writing your book choose the group to whom you are writing (seemdashdoesnrsquot that sound good) Do you want to sound casual Or is it more important to sound educated or business-likemdashor even stilted Maybe your bookrsquos character is supposed to sound stilted Itrsquos important to know how to choose so you can choose
If casual use ldquoWho are you going withrdquo or ldquogive tordquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 17 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
If business use ldquowith whomrdquo or ldquoto whomrdquo
NO ldquoThe president whom you were seen with last nightrdquoYES ldquoThe president with whom you were seenrdquo OK ldquoThe president who you were seen with last nightrdquo
NO ldquoMartha whom he danced with in 1978 met himrdquoYES ldquoMartha with whom he danced in 1978 met himrdquoOK ldquoMartha who he danced with in 1978 met himrdquo
NO ldquoDr Jacobs whom he dedicated the book tordquoYES ldquoDr Jacobs to whom he dedicated the bookrdquoOK ldquoDr Jacobs who he dedicated the book tordquo
(Understand please OK means the usage is OK but certainly not great and still would make Miss Pine [to whom these things were most important] suffer even if she has been gone all these years)
9 Placement of illustrations amp quotes
If you have places within the text where an illustration will go when the book or article is complete write your draft like this
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on After the end of your paragraph right here leave room for your to-be-added photo or illustration and make appropriatenotes to indicate to yourself or your assistant what goes here like this
Illustration 3 hereOptional title of photo here
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 18 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
phot
o M
elis
sa Ir
elan
d
Credits Photo or art credit goes here small or at 90 degrees to pageAlso make sure you have filed the relevant photo so you can find it easily so itrsquos ready to insert into your almost-final drafts
Only format the text to fit around your illustration after your text is finalized This is really important If you insert all your images prematurely when you delete add or change text they will each also have to be adjusted
Hold off Be patient Itrsquos worth itmdashyoursquoll literally save yourself HOURS of readjusting Wait until your text is done before you insert your images When your text is final and you have inserted the image it can look like this one does See how the image sits nicely within the body of the text with that nice
white space around it lots of room for it to breathe
Quotes Make a place for a quote within your text indicating where it goes like this
Leave two lines between the text and the quoteIndicate quote here
When you format make the font a bit larger more bold or italic or centered
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on and so on
There are as many ways to include quotes as there are people writing books I like to leave two line spaces before and after the quote and I center it in boldmdashor as in this book in a font that naturally aligns in appearance with the title font
Like this
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 19 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Time flies when I write
Others like to put their quote on the margin moving the text over a bit or in a box or in a space indented into the text just the way
this little example is or the way the image on the previous page looks
In the books I designed for EFT Master Rue Hass recently I made the quotes quite bold because they were strong statements and needed a corresponding look
You are literally what you think
As you can see I also enlarged and used an emphasizing color for the most important words in the quote to push home the essence of the message
If you have ever seen any of manifestos that top business critic Tom Peters writes yoursquoll see a similar very edgy choice of font color and emphasis His manifestos are quite brilliant
Irsquom sure yours will be too So many choices you can make other than Courier Times and straight left and right justified formatting
ldquoTime flies when I writerdquo- Angela Treat Lyon
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 20 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Your finished bookmdashA Recap
Write You have written your text collected your quotes illustrations and other supporting material
Edit You have made sure your spelling and other text errors are eliminated
Format You have formatted your text using the guidelines set out in the beginning of this book using your favorite ONE OR TWO mdashand no moremdasheasy-to-read fonts
Fonts Be very sparing of fancy font usage If used too much they only serve to distract from your writing and some can be quite unreadable
Fancy fonts have no place in articles or books unless they are meant to be more decorative than functionalmdashperhaps as part of a heading or chapter title
Photos and other You have inserted your supporting materials in the correct positions
Tweak You have tweaked your formatting to allow captions and titles for photos or illustrations or charts if need be
White space Yoursquove got white space around all your graphs illustrations and photos and some good margins for notes
So ultimately (and in accordance with the ldquolookrdquo you give your book with fonts and illustration) your book or article might look like this
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 21 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
Writing articles for free publicity
What do you write aboutText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text
text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text
ldquoYoursquore writing whatrdquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 22 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Add your quote here like this
ldquoPut your future in good handsyour ownrdquo
Mark Victor Hansen
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
The End
copy Renalda Whodewhat 2006 All rights reserved You may feel free to use this article in your newsletter or ezine upon the condition that you agree keep 100 of the text illustrations and links intact Thanks TheUltimateWebsitecom RenaldaTheUltimateWebsitecom
________________________
Thatrsquos it Now go write edit build publish and sell your beautiful clear intelligently written books and articles
On the following pages I have listed all kinds of support andresources that I and my other writer-friends use
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 23 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 24 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 25 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 26 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 17 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
If business use ldquowith whomrdquo or ldquoto whomrdquo
NO ldquoThe president whom you were seen with last nightrdquoYES ldquoThe president with whom you were seenrdquo OK ldquoThe president who you were seen with last nightrdquo
NO ldquoMartha whom he danced with in 1978 met himrdquoYES ldquoMartha with whom he danced in 1978 met himrdquoOK ldquoMartha who he danced with in 1978 met himrdquo
NO ldquoDr Jacobs whom he dedicated the book tordquoYES ldquoDr Jacobs to whom he dedicated the bookrdquoOK ldquoDr Jacobs who he dedicated the book tordquo
(Understand please OK means the usage is OK but certainly not great and still would make Miss Pine [to whom these things were most important] suffer even if she has been gone all these years)
9 Placement of illustrations amp quotes
If you have places within the text where an illustration will go when the book or article is complete write your draft like this
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on After the end of your paragraph right here leave room for your to-be-added photo or illustration and make appropriatenotes to indicate to yourself or your assistant what goes here like this
Illustration 3 hereOptional title of photo here
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 18 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
phot
o M
elis
sa Ir
elan
d
Credits Photo or art credit goes here small or at 90 degrees to pageAlso make sure you have filed the relevant photo so you can find it easily so itrsquos ready to insert into your almost-final drafts
Only format the text to fit around your illustration after your text is finalized This is really important If you insert all your images prematurely when you delete add or change text they will each also have to be adjusted
Hold off Be patient Itrsquos worth itmdashyoursquoll literally save yourself HOURS of readjusting Wait until your text is done before you insert your images When your text is final and you have inserted the image it can look like this one does See how the image sits nicely within the body of the text with that nice
white space around it lots of room for it to breathe
Quotes Make a place for a quote within your text indicating where it goes like this
Leave two lines between the text and the quoteIndicate quote here
When you format make the font a bit larger more bold or italic or centered
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on and so on
There are as many ways to include quotes as there are people writing books I like to leave two line spaces before and after the quote and I center it in boldmdashor as in this book in a font that naturally aligns in appearance with the title font
Like this
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 19 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Time flies when I write
Others like to put their quote on the margin moving the text over a bit or in a box or in a space indented into the text just the way
this little example is or the way the image on the previous page looks
In the books I designed for EFT Master Rue Hass recently I made the quotes quite bold because they were strong statements and needed a corresponding look
You are literally what you think
As you can see I also enlarged and used an emphasizing color for the most important words in the quote to push home the essence of the message
If you have ever seen any of manifestos that top business critic Tom Peters writes yoursquoll see a similar very edgy choice of font color and emphasis His manifestos are quite brilliant
Irsquom sure yours will be too So many choices you can make other than Courier Times and straight left and right justified formatting
ldquoTime flies when I writerdquo- Angela Treat Lyon
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 20 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Your finished bookmdashA Recap
Write You have written your text collected your quotes illustrations and other supporting material
Edit You have made sure your spelling and other text errors are eliminated
Format You have formatted your text using the guidelines set out in the beginning of this book using your favorite ONE OR TWO mdashand no moremdasheasy-to-read fonts
Fonts Be very sparing of fancy font usage If used too much they only serve to distract from your writing and some can be quite unreadable
Fancy fonts have no place in articles or books unless they are meant to be more decorative than functionalmdashperhaps as part of a heading or chapter title
Photos and other You have inserted your supporting materials in the correct positions
Tweak You have tweaked your formatting to allow captions and titles for photos or illustrations or charts if need be
White space Yoursquove got white space around all your graphs illustrations and photos and some good margins for notes
So ultimately (and in accordance with the ldquolookrdquo you give your book with fonts and illustration) your book or article might look like this
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 21 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
Writing articles for free publicity
What do you write aboutText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text
text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text
ldquoYoursquore writing whatrdquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 22 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Add your quote here like this
ldquoPut your future in good handsyour ownrdquo
Mark Victor Hansen
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
The End
copy Renalda Whodewhat 2006 All rights reserved You may feel free to use this article in your newsletter or ezine upon the condition that you agree keep 100 of the text illustrations and links intact Thanks TheUltimateWebsitecom RenaldaTheUltimateWebsitecom
________________________
Thatrsquos it Now go write edit build publish and sell your beautiful clear intelligently written books and articles
On the following pages I have listed all kinds of support andresources that I and my other writer-friends use
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 23 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 24 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 25 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 26 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 18 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
phot
o M
elis
sa Ir
elan
d
Credits Photo or art credit goes here small or at 90 degrees to pageAlso make sure you have filed the relevant photo so you can find it easily so itrsquos ready to insert into your almost-final drafts
Only format the text to fit around your illustration after your text is finalized This is really important If you insert all your images prematurely when you delete add or change text they will each also have to be adjusted
Hold off Be patient Itrsquos worth itmdashyoursquoll literally save yourself HOURS of readjusting Wait until your text is done before you insert your images When your text is final and you have inserted the image it can look like this one does See how the image sits nicely within the body of the text with that nice
white space around it lots of room for it to breathe
Quotes Make a place for a quote within your text indicating where it goes like this
Leave two lines between the text and the quoteIndicate quote here
When you format make the font a bit larger more bold or italic or centered
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on and so on
There are as many ways to include quotes as there are people writing books I like to leave two line spaces before and after the quote and I center it in boldmdashor as in this book in a font that naturally aligns in appearance with the title font
Like this
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 19 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Time flies when I write
Others like to put their quote on the margin moving the text over a bit or in a box or in a space indented into the text just the way
this little example is or the way the image on the previous page looks
In the books I designed for EFT Master Rue Hass recently I made the quotes quite bold because they were strong statements and needed a corresponding look
You are literally what you think
As you can see I also enlarged and used an emphasizing color for the most important words in the quote to push home the essence of the message
If you have ever seen any of manifestos that top business critic Tom Peters writes yoursquoll see a similar very edgy choice of font color and emphasis His manifestos are quite brilliant
Irsquom sure yours will be too So many choices you can make other than Courier Times and straight left and right justified formatting
ldquoTime flies when I writerdquo- Angela Treat Lyon
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 20 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Your finished bookmdashA Recap
Write You have written your text collected your quotes illustrations and other supporting material
Edit You have made sure your spelling and other text errors are eliminated
Format You have formatted your text using the guidelines set out in the beginning of this book using your favorite ONE OR TWO mdashand no moremdasheasy-to-read fonts
Fonts Be very sparing of fancy font usage If used too much they only serve to distract from your writing and some can be quite unreadable
Fancy fonts have no place in articles or books unless they are meant to be more decorative than functionalmdashperhaps as part of a heading or chapter title
Photos and other You have inserted your supporting materials in the correct positions
Tweak You have tweaked your formatting to allow captions and titles for photos or illustrations or charts if need be
White space Yoursquove got white space around all your graphs illustrations and photos and some good margins for notes
So ultimately (and in accordance with the ldquolookrdquo you give your book with fonts and illustration) your book or article might look like this
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 21 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
Writing articles for free publicity
What do you write aboutText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text
text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text
ldquoYoursquore writing whatrdquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 22 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Add your quote here like this
ldquoPut your future in good handsyour ownrdquo
Mark Victor Hansen
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
The End
copy Renalda Whodewhat 2006 All rights reserved You may feel free to use this article in your newsletter or ezine upon the condition that you agree keep 100 of the text illustrations and links intact Thanks TheUltimateWebsitecom RenaldaTheUltimateWebsitecom
________________________
Thatrsquos it Now go write edit build publish and sell your beautiful clear intelligently written books and articles
On the following pages I have listed all kinds of support andresources that I and my other writer-friends use
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 23 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 24 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 25 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 26 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 19 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Time flies when I write
Others like to put their quote on the margin moving the text over a bit or in a box or in a space indented into the text just the way
this little example is or the way the image on the previous page looks
In the books I designed for EFT Master Rue Hass recently I made the quotes quite bold because they were strong statements and needed a corresponding look
You are literally what you think
As you can see I also enlarged and used an emphasizing color for the most important words in the quote to push home the essence of the message
If you have ever seen any of manifestos that top business critic Tom Peters writes yoursquoll see a similar very edgy choice of font color and emphasis His manifestos are quite brilliant
Irsquom sure yours will be too So many choices you can make other than Courier Times and straight left and right justified formatting
ldquoTime flies when I writerdquo- Angela Treat Lyon
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 20 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Your finished bookmdashA Recap
Write You have written your text collected your quotes illustrations and other supporting material
Edit You have made sure your spelling and other text errors are eliminated
Format You have formatted your text using the guidelines set out in the beginning of this book using your favorite ONE OR TWO mdashand no moremdasheasy-to-read fonts
Fonts Be very sparing of fancy font usage If used too much they only serve to distract from your writing and some can be quite unreadable
Fancy fonts have no place in articles or books unless they are meant to be more decorative than functionalmdashperhaps as part of a heading or chapter title
Photos and other You have inserted your supporting materials in the correct positions
Tweak You have tweaked your formatting to allow captions and titles for photos or illustrations or charts if need be
White space Yoursquove got white space around all your graphs illustrations and photos and some good margins for notes
So ultimately (and in accordance with the ldquolookrdquo you give your book with fonts and illustration) your book or article might look like this
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 21 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
Writing articles for free publicity
What do you write aboutText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text
text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text
ldquoYoursquore writing whatrdquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 22 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Add your quote here like this
ldquoPut your future in good handsyour ownrdquo
Mark Victor Hansen
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
The End
copy Renalda Whodewhat 2006 All rights reserved You may feel free to use this article in your newsletter or ezine upon the condition that you agree keep 100 of the text illustrations and links intact Thanks TheUltimateWebsitecom RenaldaTheUltimateWebsitecom
________________________
Thatrsquos it Now go write edit build publish and sell your beautiful clear intelligently written books and articles
On the following pages I have listed all kinds of support andresources that I and my other writer-friends use
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 23 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 24 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 25 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 26 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 20 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Your finished bookmdashA Recap
Write You have written your text collected your quotes illustrations and other supporting material
Edit You have made sure your spelling and other text errors are eliminated
Format You have formatted your text using the guidelines set out in the beginning of this book using your favorite ONE OR TWO mdashand no moremdasheasy-to-read fonts
Fonts Be very sparing of fancy font usage If used too much they only serve to distract from your writing and some can be quite unreadable
Fancy fonts have no place in articles or books unless they are meant to be more decorative than functionalmdashperhaps as part of a heading or chapter title
Photos and other You have inserted your supporting materials in the correct positions
Tweak You have tweaked your formatting to allow captions and titles for photos or illustrations or charts if need be
White space Yoursquove got white space around all your graphs illustrations and photos and some good margins for notes
So ultimately (and in accordance with the ldquolookrdquo you give your book with fonts and illustration) your book or article might look like this
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 21 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
Writing articles for free publicity
What do you write aboutText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text
text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text
ldquoYoursquore writing whatrdquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 22 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Add your quote here like this
ldquoPut your future in good handsyour ownrdquo
Mark Victor Hansen
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
The End
copy Renalda Whodewhat 2006 All rights reserved You may feel free to use this article in your newsletter or ezine upon the condition that you agree keep 100 of the text illustrations and links intact Thanks TheUltimateWebsitecom RenaldaTheUltimateWebsitecom
________________________
Thatrsquos it Now go write edit build publish and sell your beautiful clear intelligently written books and articles
On the following pages I have listed all kinds of support andresources that I and my other writer-friends use
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 23 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 24 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 25 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 26 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 21 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Chapter 1The Importance
of Writing Articles
Marketing Strategies
Writing articles for free publicity
What do you write aboutText text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text
text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text
ldquoYoursquore writing whatrdquo
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 22 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Add your quote here like this
ldquoPut your future in good handsyour ownrdquo
Mark Victor Hansen
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
The End
copy Renalda Whodewhat 2006 All rights reserved You may feel free to use this article in your newsletter or ezine upon the condition that you agree keep 100 of the text illustrations and links intact Thanks TheUltimateWebsitecom RenaldaTheUltimateWebsitecom
________________________
Thatrsquos it Now go write edit build publish and sell your beautiful clear intelligently written books and articles
On the following pages I have listed all kinds of support andresources that I and my other writer-friends use
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 23 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 24 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 25 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 26 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 22 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Add your quote here like this
ldquoPut your future in good handsyour ownrdquo
Mark Victor Hansen
Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on Text text text and so on
The End
copy Renalda Whodewhat 2006 All rights reserved You may feel free to use this article in your newsletter or ezine upon the condition that you agree keep 100 of the text illustrations and links intact Thanks TheUltimateWebsitecom RenaldaTheUltimateWebsitecom
________________________
Thatrsquos it Now go write edit build publish and sell your beautiful clear intelligently written books and articles
On the following pages I have listed all kinds of support andresources that I and my other writer-friends use
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 23 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 24 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 25 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 26 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 23 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Writersrsquo Resources (Live links)
Freelance writers for cheap elancecomsologigcomwriters-editorscom
Templates for witing articleguycom
Press release services prwebcomprwebdirectcomprleapcomi-newswirecomereleasescomprnewswirecomeworldwirecompress-release-writingcom
Publicityprleadscomanniejenningsprcomradiopublicitycom
Directories for submitting articlesdmozcomdirectoriezsubmissioncom
BlogsTypepadcomBloggerscomMoveableTypecomLiveJournalcom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 24 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Audioblogs dictate and upload audio blog entriesAudblogcom Audblog enables audio posting to your current blog site with any phone at any time from almost anywhere
Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
My favorite bridge linesFreeaudioconferencingcom
Getting paid with or without credit cardspaypalcompaydotcomcom
Affiliate setupspaydotcomcom1automationwizcom
Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 25 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 26 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 24 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
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Print-on-Demand Houses LulucomCafepresscom
Audio and podcasting capability for tele-classes that grow out of the material in your bookAudioacrobatcom
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Shopping carts1automationwizcom1shoppingcartcom
Website hostinggodaddycomhostMcom I get 5 sites a year here for only 97 bucks
Eliminate obstacles pain emotionsEFTBookscomEmofreecom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 25 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 26 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 25 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Genius business coaching and mentoring7FigureBusinesscom - ebook7FigureBusinesscom - mentoring
Wealth-Building tele-classes and coachingPIGEEScom
247 Success Radio Rich-Radiocom
Email me if you know of other resources you can recommend that ought to go into the next book Thanks
Good luck and I hope you are wildly successful
_____________________
This book is 6rdquo x 9rdquo and will print out in the center of your paper if formatted ldquocenterrdquo on your printer
Published by Out Front Productions
Kailua Hawaii USA
Written designed and built by Angela Treat Lyon LyonRich-Radiocom
You paid good money this book or received it as a bonus for something else you bought right Why would you give it
away Irsquod so appreciate it if you didnrsquot If you really want people you know to have it send them to
Rich-Radiocom to get it for themselves Thanks so much
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 26 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom
9 Secrets of Blockbuster Books
Angela Treat Lyon 26 at PIGEEScomAll text and illustrations copyLyon 2005 bull All rights reserved
Angela Treat Lyon is a Success Trainer and EFT practitioner Financial Freedom and MasterMindSet Coach she speaks about Personal Wealth and Energy Management internationally
Angela writes edits designs constructs and publishes both ebooks and print books She has been a professional artist for over 40 years and now specializes in stone carving and oil painting She is a professional illustrator graphic web and fine artist (see Lyon-Artcom and TheLandofAmmazecom)
Angela has a bit of a maverick streak she rode across the US on a motorcycle sailed from Hawaii to California travelled for two years in her truck - among other adventures
Angela is the author of Change Your Mind (the very popular comprehensive EFT manual which includes case stories and fully illustrated basic and advanced tapping points) and Change Your Mind the Shorty EFT version (which is also available in Spanish) at EFTBookscom
The REAL Money Secrets at TheREALMoneySecretscom
The Six Little PIGEES Learn the Amazing Money Multiplying Methodde and The Six Little PIGEES 100-Day Financial Freedom Guide at PIGEEScom
Angela interviews and records for her Internet Radio site Rich-Radiocom the best of the best Experts for your success in busi-ness health wealth and life She holds and hosts both free and paid Tele-Classes at PIGEEScom and Rich-Radiocom to help you create and maintain a high level of personal health and wealth
Angela Treat Lyon can be reached at LyonRich-Radiocom