Would you like to see
your words in print
75% of the time
in an article or a book?
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As a K-12 administrator or teacher you already have the two most important elements:
You are literate!
You have something important to say!
What’s probably missing is the simple know-how to put those words in print reliably, often, and profitably. There’s no magic to that. In Administrators and Teachers: Getting Profitably in Print 75% of the Time!, a funny yet grizzled old veteran, Gordon Burgett, shows you how to put surefire techniques used by professional writers in motion immediately!
Do professional writers really sell more than 75% of
the time?
Yes—or they go somewhere else to earn their living!
You’re a professional, and if writers want to run a school or teach a passel of kids, couldn’t you show them how?
So why not the reverse?
The trick is to get a writer with a lifetime of publishing experience to reduce the how-to steps to a dependable process, then have him (or her) explain it so you can do the same... which is precisely what this book is about! You need to read Gordon Burgett’s
If professional writers
expect to do that almost every time they write, and have that certainty even
before they do the research, interview, or whatever else is needed to create
the valuable text that others want and need, why can’t you?
Gordon’s a professional writer (as well as a publisher with 30 years of experience). Let him simply explain the process, step by step, that puts superintendents, principals, teachers, and other education leaders like you on a profitable, winning path from the outset?
That’s the purpose of Gordon Burgett’s
Administrators and Teachers: Getting Profitably in Print 75% of the Time.
It’s a no-nonsense blessing for article writing for magazines, newsletters, newspapers, and journals or for books written for their education colleagues (or any other niche market).
How can we believe that the author is sharing this “inside” process? Gordon has 38 published books and 1,700+ articles in print, his most recent being the industry standard, Niche Publishing: Publish Profitably Every Time. He also wrote Writer’s Digest’s Sell and Resell Your Magazine Articles.
As important, he is the editor and publisher of the popular education books you have been reading: What Every Superintendent and Principal Needs to Know, The Perfect School, Teachers Change Lives 24/7, and Finding Middle Ground in K-12 Education: Balancing Best Practices and the Law.
Frankly, this 104-page how-to success guide for writing and publishing in the education field sounds like a teacher and administrator’s dream!
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Gordon explains all in the
book’s Introduction
This may be the most important book introduction you ever read because it promises you that 75% of the articles or books you write will be profitably in print.
For most writers that’s about as believable as if I told you that if you sniffed this book’s cover it would turn to gold. (It won’t.)
But the 75% is true. I’m an experienced writer and publisher and I simply won’t write or publish unless I’m going to sell a lot more than 75% of the time—and my writing is just so-so, as you can see. But I know how to sell, and so will you if you pay attention and do what this book says.
What may surprise you is that there is no one way to do this. Articles sell much differently than books. Each follows a very different process. And none of the 75% steps are secret or unknown to those in the professional field. In fact, if the professionals varied too far from the ways I will share, they would more likely be doing something else, like selling burgers or herding cattle.
Then why doesn’t everybody just follow these processes, get in print, and cash in? (I just shrugged my shoulders.)
One, beginners don’t know about them, and if they do, they insist on doing it their way instead. Which is fine with the rest of us.
Or they insist on writing what they want to write to imaginary buyers to whom they want to sell, and, well, if the publishers don’t want it done the writer’s way, it must be the publishers who are wrong. Again, those of us earning a good living by selling our writing don’t really care.
But if you’re serious, give what this book proposes a try. Then welcome to the club. You’ll see what works and why, and you’ll be with us forever.
ARTICLES
Selling 75% of your articles is mostly an issue of numbers. And doing a bit of pre-writing inquiry to see if the local editor of the newspaper or magazine wants to put your works on his or her pages.
But you’ve got an advantage over the unaffiliated writer. If you stick to education, particularly your local system or school, why wouldn’t the editor want your words in print?
And if you’re thinking about an article in a major magazine, then you will use a solid one-page query letter to check out the editor’s interest before you do your major research, interview, and write. Only when you get a positive reply will you study the target publication (we’ll show you how), then get your words to that editor (usually within three weeks).
The trick is pretty much getting the editor to agree to see what your article contains. Blind submissions don’t work—the way beginners usually do it. And sending your opus without seeing what else is on those pages first is like sending a dress to a cousin you never met nor know her dimensions. Duh.
That’s a bit of the process, but read the first of the two sections, “Articles,” and pay attention to the details.
BOOKS
Books are different—and much harder to get accepted by major (or even minor) publishers, since they must put up the ante (many thousands of dollars) to see if your dreams (and words) will shake loose enough buying change to bring them a big profit (from which they will give you very small portion).
But you’re a jump
ahead of the big houses, if you do your part right. In fact, you don’t need
them at all. It’s a lot easier for you to make all of that profit, and few care
a whit if your book (if it’s needed and good) comes from a gilt-edged big house
in
Even more important, you can test your market for several hundred dollars (think $25,000 plus in income if your test works) before you write the final book, prep it, print it, and promote it.
Whoa, I hear you: the five dreaded P’s: prepare, prep, print, and promote=publish! None of which you want to do (except maybe prepare, if that means write).
Of course not. But there are books that will walk you through each process, and if it takes you a month or two longer, who cares? Anyway, who can hear your knocking knees?
Why can you cash in quicker than the big houses? Because you are going to write a niche book, to niche readers who are on mailing lists or are otherwise are easy to find. And because you know what you’re writing about, and since you know that they need to read your words, they are going to be eager to put book-buying coins in your pocket. Think 25% profit (often 45%) and in one eighth the time you will wait for the big house paymaster to find you.
The second section, Books, will explain the process, and then show you in a case study (about a book called What Every Superintendent and Principal Needs to Know…) exactly what was done before that book hit the press, got “found” by speakers who used it as the core of workshops and breakout sessions at conventions, and became a textbook for graduate education classes for school administrators. How do I know? I published it.
So that’s where the “75%” comes in. Why would you buy and follow a book that promises much less?
On the other hand, if you have something to tell your education colleagues and you properly want to be recompensed for either saving their bacon or shining their light, you are at the right place. All you must do is have a pinch of faith, read both sections, figure out where you want to start and what you want to say, then do it… It works if you do.
Administrators and Teachers:
Getting Profitably in Print 75% of the Time!
You have a ton of needed, no-nonsense, funny, life-changing, valuable information that should be shared. Get this book so you can make that happen again and again...
See you in print!
Who is the author? A former sixth-grade teacher, later a university dean, who has had 1,700+ freelance articles and 38 books published, including How to Sell 75% of Your Freelance Writing, twice a Writer’s Digest top choice!
Most important, here he focuses on educators and how you can do even better selling your unique inside knowledge about school, education, or life in general (from your perspective).
That’s why he wrote
Administrators and Teachers:
Getting Profitably in Print 75% of the Time!
You can have this entire 104-page how-to book downloaded in five minutes—or we will gladly mail you the bound version tomorrow. So don’t dally, or your book will never get done!