Let me give you a crash course for self-publishing on Amazon and related content creation. Don’t reinvent the wheel. If you can’t become a professor, you can run your own school.
- Write from an outline.
- Keep a notebook or journal near your bed and maybe in your car.
- Or write your essay as one thought.
- Use a pamphlet called Elements of Style. Fr fr.
- Edit your work and delete or rewrite unreadable passages. This is important.
- Test ideas on social media and/or a blog.
- You can use AI to edit and make suggestions.
- You can ask AI (Grok or ChatGPT) to write chapter after chapter. BUT, YOU want to write for YOUR human target audience. (You should know a fair amount about what they like.)
- Be original with your cover. Try to grab attention with your cover.
- Your product description sells the book and tells customers what it’s about.
- Don’t leave keywords fields blank when you publish your work.
- Build an opt-in list.
- Brainstorm for unique angles and unfair advantages for the content and the marketing. Don’t reveal.
- You can repurpose old content. Blog posts can become videos. Blog posts can be incorporated into books. Banger emails to your list can be included in your book.
- You want to market your books on Audible.
- Remember, you are writing for a human target audience.
- People trying to get you to circumvent these guidelines should set off red flags.
- AI is making more competition. Take any advantage you can. Again, you can recycle or repurpose your warez.
- Someone slamming your work may well turn around and demand it for free. There are well-credentialed crooks, too.
- If you know your subject cold, you don’t need any help except a human or AI editor.
- Anti-consumerist professor probably won’t be much help to you.
- Create a curated feed on X that provides insight and where you can share your experience.
- Have ChatGPT or Grok edit your work. You’ll notice things with AI. Like it omits lessons from the trenches. It also likes to reword unneccesarily.
- Again, aim your whole work towards a targeted audience.
- Sell your audience on continuing to read.
- Break up long paragraphs into one to four sentence paragraphs. Watch those run on sentences.
- There are still things humans can publish. I can’t see AI writing another Atlas Shrugged or a manifesto.
Next, head to our bookstore for authors to model and for Elements of Style.
Are you in the mood for a Billionaire Manifesto? See our friend Jerome’s audiobook.