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Calorie Density SecretsCalorie dilute (and nutrient rich) foods do not have to be boring, bland, and tasteless as you'll quickly discover in this delightful DVD. Freelance writer Beth Ann Erickson and Web Guru Extraordinaire Peder Erickson open their actual kitchen and share some of the recipes that helped them lose a combined total of around 150 pounds and has helped manage Maury Erickson's post heart attack blood numbers.

Note: This is a DVD. Click here for more info. 

 

Advice to Freelance WritersWhat do successful writers do? The answer may surprise you. 

You may have read the books, attended seminars, studied the craft. But if your version of success is still eluding you, it's time for something different. Real different. Click here for more info. 

 

Advice to Freelance WritersDrop Dead Easy Marketing Techniques...

Top marketers master them. Freelancers routinely skip them. It's the toxic word writers loathe to use... marketing.
Thing is, mastering just a few simple techniques can propel your writing career faster than you ever dreamed possible.
  Click here to discover in the second installment of “Advice to Freelance Writers.”
 

 

Advice to Freelance WritersFreelancing Made Easy

   In this final installment of “Advice to Freelance Writers,” you'll get your hands on a treasure trove of information you can immediately use to get your writing career moving and grooving. This volume covers many important topics. Check it out here.

 

Filbert Guide to Getting PublishedFilbert's Fast Guide to Getting Published (Without Falling for Scams, Hooks, Lines, or Sinkers

Getting articles and books published today is easier than ever. or is it?

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Jumpstart Your Writing CareerThink it’ll take forever to earn a great living as a writer?

 

Think again.

 

With Jumpstart Your Writing Career, you’ll discover how easy it is to... Click here for more info.

 

 

101Earning the big bucks as a freelance writer just got easier.

With 101 Low Cost (and No Cost) Techniques to Turbo Charge Your Freelance Income, you’ll discover how easy it is to draw clients to your door like a magnet... and much more. Click here for info

 

VehicleA Writer's Vehicle: Henry Ford's Way by Billie Williams. Click here for more info.

 

Bob Bly's Guide to Freelance Writing Success

 While many freelance writers struggle to earn a living wage, Bob Bly has proven again and again, year after year, that it’s not only possible to earn far more, it’s possible to transform words into a $100,000 a year freelancing business. And he shares all his insider knowledge within these pages. Click here for more info. 

 

Tripple whammy! Get all three Billie William's following books for a huge discount. Details here.

 

 There's nothing worse than bland-as-oatmeal writing that doesn't evoke passion, laugher, anger, love... some kind of emotion from your reader. Click here for more. 

 

 

Writing Wide, Exercises in Creative WritingAnyone can write... but not everyone can write an engaging and suspenseful manuscript. Williams manages to do both... and shares the secrets to her successful writing techniques in Writing Wide.

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Characters in Search of an AuthorBuilding a character from the ground up is simple. Building a memorable, living, breathing human being is a most daunting and complicated task... until now.

With her trademark candor and unparalleled teaching style, Billie A. Williams, master character-builder and prolific freelance writer, reveals a cornucopia of character-building tips, tricks, and tools you can master in one afternoon. Click here to read more.

 

Weekly WritesIt began as a wildly popular e-mail course taken by thousands of writers worldwide. Today it’s totally revised and updated, available for the first time in print.

Inside these pages you'll find 52 weeks... 12 solid months... of provocative writing prompts, unparalleled inspiration, and everything you need to create one of the most comprehensive journals of your writing career.

Daily writing prompts combined with vivid written examples by an eclectic group of dedicated writers will make each "assignment" a breeze. Click here to read more.

365 Tips for Writers"This book is nothing but tips – ideas disguised as tips, really. And we writers just love ideas. Ideas are our lifeblood – the engine beneath our creativity. And the scope of these tips are…well, formidable." - Peter Bowerman, The Well-Fed Writer 

With over 365 tips (journal writers... that’s more than one per day for a whole year) Dawn Colclasure has created a truly unique book that’s an essential addition to every writer’s library. Click here to read more.

 

Secrets of a Writing Hustler"As a 12-year-old black kid in the Mississippi Delta, I chopped cotton, raised hogs and plowed fields to help support my family of 11. Today, I’m an award-winning journalist, and former columnist for two national publications. I’m also a freelance copywriter whose words are used each day to sell millions of dollars worth of products and services. Simply stated, I wrote my way to the top using strategies that guarantee success."

Secrets of a Writing Hustler is Confessions of an Advertising Man meets On Writing Well . It’s part memoir and part how-to -- a "one-stop shop" for freelance writers, journalists, copywriters, and entrepreneurs. It provides practical, easy-to-follow ideas and instructions on how to slip through barriers, beat rejection, weave killer copy, crack multiple markets and succeed as a writer. Click here to read more.

 

Grass Roots Book MarketingTired of getting the cold shoulder at Borders? Amped up on your fifth cup of coffee while waiting for the manager to "get around to you" at the local Barnes & Noble? Sick of the look on people's faces at the very mention of the most dreaded word in the book selling industry: self-published? Wondering what to do with those ten cases of your self-published book currently threatening to topple over on your king-size bed?

Then it's time to try some new alternatives. Forget Borders. Forget Barnes & Noble. Why not try the local florist? Don't they specialize in those tacky Over the Hill style gift baskets? Why not suggest adding a copy of your latest thriller, Nooses at the Nursing Home, to give their goofy gift basket the extra push it needs to be a real "killer"? Click here to read more.

 

Stop and Smell the Asphalt"Stop and Smell the Asphalt: Laughter & Love along the Highway of Parenthood," is a literary romp in the side-splitting tradition of
Erma Bombeck, Dave Barry and Anne Lamott.


Reviewers describe this book as
"Laugh-out-loud funny" and "...hilarious, but not over the top."

 Veteran writer for television and print, Lindy Batdorf has penned a feel-good book on parenting that captivates the heart and smacks the funny bone. Swept along on this hilarious, exhilarating ride, readers sense the passion and experience every emotional gut-punch that inspired each delightful true story. Click here for more info.