How to Choose a Writing Coach - A Beginner's Guide: Ensuring your best chance for publishing success

by Ged Cusack

WHAT IS STOPPING YOU BEING A SUCCESSFUL PUBLISHED WRITER?

Are you overwhelmed and don’t even know where to start?

Perhaps you haven’t even written a word and need help converting your life's vision into text? Is a lack of motivation and accountability holding you back? Perhaps you have the written the content but don’t know what to do next? Maybe you have already self-published something that isn’t selling? A successful writing Coach can help you to succeed in your publishing career!

Your next hurdle is where to find the right coach that meets your needs.

This book lays out a full process, providing exercises and information encompassing:

Identifying what you want from a writing coach. Determining what time and money you can commit to a coach. Matching your learning styles with a potential coach. Leading you by the hand throughout the research process. Culminating in you actually employing a coach.

This is A book full of actions and exercises, not just passive reading!

Still unsure if you need a coach?

A 2014 survey of over 9000 current and aspiring authors produced the following results:

Of the 9000 respondents approximately 58% had actually completed a manuscript.  6000 of the 9000 respondents were only "aspiring" authors and of them only 36.7% had completed a manuscript. Only 23% of all the survey respondents (who had completed their manuscript) had actually published their first book. If we look at those figures we can see that with a roughly 60% chance of getting to the stage of completing a manuscript you then have less than a one in four chance of continuing and  publishing it.

Although there may be various reasons why other writers don’t publishing their books, surely you want to have the best chance to beat those odds?

Read this book to determine if you want a writing coach, how a coach can help you and how to find one that suits your needs.

174 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 3, 2017

About the author

Hello

As a child of the sixties, I've always had a thirst for learning and knowledge.

Moving to New Zealand at the end of 2004 (After 22 years as British Military Engineer),I am enjoying the different pace of life.

Since moving to New Zealand I have pursued many ventures including Business Coaching, Trading Stock Options, Trading CFD’s, Trading Foreign Exchange, Trading Futures and project management.

I realized early on in my life, that I have a busy brain. Detailed notes and systems allow me to constantly move between projects.

Realizing that other people can benefit from my systems and guides, I have begun to consolidate information for other busy minds.

I previously spent 4.5 years working in post-earthquake Christchurch where my roles played to my strengths of project management, problem solving and systematization.

At the end of that last contract I decided to have a break from the corporate environment and focus on e-commerce and trading.

I had several friends and former colleagues ask what I was doing and how they too could start an Amazon business.

After many hours of guiding those people (Involving providing schedules and identifying where these people where at) I decided to systematize this guidance.

My Systems eventuated into my first book:
"FBA - Building an Amazon Business - The Beginner's Guide: Why and How to Build a Profitable Business on Amazon." myBook.to/booklinkerFBAlink

Spurred by that first success I have begun writing a series of Beginner's Guide including:

"A Beginner's Guide Profitable Stock Options Trading: Lessons I learned losing $100,000 to accelerate your trading success".
myBook.to/StockOptions

and my most recent addition

"How to Choose a Writing Coach - A Beginner's Guide: Ensuring your best chance for publishing success." getBook.at/Chooseawritingcoach


I have also started writing an inspirational series of books, beginning with:

"Gratitude for Happiness: How to exercise your gratitude muscles." myBook.to/GratitudeforHappiness

I hope you enjoy reading the books as much as I enjoyed writing them.

Reviews

[Prakash Sharma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting and inspirational book

I loved the book because it's a no fluff kind of book. Ged, the author of this book shared his personal experiences in an inspirational way. Though the book is about the guidelines "how and why one must get a coach", yet this book is an inspirational one. It is full of great ideas and resources.

[Carolyn Wells · Rating 5 out of 5]

When we are informed, we have options and can then make better choices. What an excellent resource for beginners seeking a writing coach. The author left no stone unturned. The book provides valuable search, selection, and coach vetting tips that should yield positive results in any coaching relationship.

The author provided thought-provoking material and an ample supply of inspiration to keep the reader fully engaged.

Upon completion of the book, the rich content will have settled any doubts or questions about broaching the search for a coach. Well done!