Celebrate your milestones!
Writing a book can be a long, lonely experience. You deserve a reward at each stage of the process. As you complete the workshop exercises and milestones in Write a Must-Read, come back to this page to collect your rewards.
Writing a book can be a long, lonely experience. You deserve a reward at each stage of the process. As you complete the workshop exercises and milestones in Write a Must-Read, come back to this page to collect your rewards.
Each reward is different. You may find:
- Deleted content
- Exclusive video content
- Useful tools
- Special discounts
Claim Your Rewards
I completed my Reader Profile.
- Download your Reader Profile badge and share it on your preferred social networks. Don’t forget to tag your post with #WriteAMustRead so we can find it!
- “The Magic of Specificity.” A section I wrote about how specificity helps you connect to your reader.
- “Listen to Your Reader.” A section I wrote about the process I used as a ghostwriter to nail my client’s voice, and how you can use that system to connect to your reader.
I CRAFTED MY CORE MESSAGE.
- Download your Core Message badge and share it on your preferred social networks. Don’t forget to tag your post with #WriteAMustRead so we can find it!
- “Harv Eker Mailing List Anecdote.” This is a section I wrote about the time the publisher of Profit First took us to task because they ran out of books.
I CRAFTED MY PROMISE.
- Download your Promise badge and share it on your preferred social networks. Don’t forget to tag your post with #WriteAMustRead so we can find it!
- A list of Top Three Book Workshop published authors’ final Core Messages and Promises.
I COMPLETED MY CONTENT INVENTORY.
- Download your Content Inventory badge and share it on your preferred social networks. Don’t forget to tag your post with #WriteAMustRead so we can find it!
- “Better Interviews to Find Better Stories.” A longer section on how to interview to get good stories that includes content that didn’t make the final cut.
- “Get Social Proof" section about Test Drive Your Content. This is a section from an entire chapter that did not end up in the book.
- Email me at [email protected] with the subject line I Finished My Content Inventory to receive a special code for $50 off my video course, Test Drive Your Content.
I COMPLETED MY WORKING OUTLINE.
- Download your Working Outline badge and share it on your preferred social networks. Don’t forget to tag your post with #WriteAMustRead so we can find it!
- "Maybe You Should Just Get a Ghostwriter." A section I cut from the book that talks about what you need to do to be a good ghostwriting client.
- How to Vet Agents and Publishers. You don’t know what you don’t know. This is a list of questions you can ask to make sure your agent and/or publisher is the right fit for you.
I COMPLETED MY 1st DRAFT CALENDAR.
- Download your First Draft Calendar badge and share it on your preferred social networks. Don’t forget to tag your post with #WriteAMustRead so we can find it!
- My “Don’t Forget the Baby” story about honoring your creative work. It was a little too weird and I had other stuff like it.
- My Tips to Beat Resistance (aka the mythical Writer’s Block) that you can use on days when you really don’t feel like writing.
I FINISHED MY SUPER-ROUGH DRAFT.
- Download your Super-Rough Draft badge and share it on your preferred social networks. Don’t forget to tag your post with #WriteAMustRead so we can find it!
- Email me at [email protected] with the subject line I Wrote a Must Read to receive a special code for $200 off my six-week Must-Read Editing Workshop.
I FINISHED MY MUST-READ EDITING PASSES.
- Download your Must-Read Editing Passes badge and share it on your preferred social networks. Don’t forget to tag your post with #WriteAMustRead so we can find it!
- Send me an email at [email protected] with the subject line: I Finished My Must-Read Editing Passes and I’ll send you a personalized message.
I COMPLETED MY FEEDBACK PROTOCOL.
- Download your Feedback Protocol badge and share it on your preferred social networks. Don’t forget to tag your post with #WriteAMustRead so we can find it!
- The “Publisher’s Clearing House” story my editor loved that I ended up cutting, because it didn’t serve my reader. It’s a great story!
- The Pre-Questionnaire I used before I sent my advance readers my work-in-progress manuscript. This helped me figure out I had to stop avoiding writing a publishing chapter, because everyone wanted it.
- “Jersey Shore” story about how to advocate for content you want with your editor. Since I already had a good example of this, I cut this story.
I HAVE A RELEASE DATE FOR MY BOOK!
- Download your Release Date badge and share it on your preferred social networks. Don’t forget to tag your post with #WriteAMustRead so we can find it! And add one more hashtag, just to show your stuff: #IWroteAMustRead.
- Amber Vilhauer, founder of NGNG Enterprises and book launch coordinator for multiple bestselling books shares three marketing must-dos for authors in this video.
- My writing partner, Mike Michalowicz, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of many books, including Profit First shares a story about the moment he stopped thinking of himself as someone who “wrote a book” and started calling himself an author.
- And I have a special message for you about your new life as an author!
YOU DID IT!!
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