Writers need to read. Full stop - there is no way out of it. And what do you need to read? Well, I always tell people to sit down and read the current top 10 bestsellers in the genre they hope to master. Next they need to read the top 10 great classics in the same genre. Finished? Well here is the next part of your curriculum:
Building a Platform
The Frugal Book Promoter by Carolyn Howard-Johnson - "acting as if" is immensely important, and a lot of the excellent advice in this book can be put to work before you have a book
101 Ways to Promote Yourself by Raleigh Pinskey - could be seen as corny and a bit old, it has, nonetheless, given me some excellent ideas
Guerrilla Networking by Jay Conrad Levinson and Monroe Mann - quite remarkably useful
Facebook Marketing for Dummies by Paul Dunay
Celebritize Yourself by Marsha Friedman
How to Work a Room by Susan RoAne
How to Sell Yourself by Joe Girard
Inspiring Yourself as a Writer and Learning Your Craft
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
On Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande
Writing the Sacred Journey by Elizabeth J. Andrew
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
Is There a Book Inside You? by Dan Poynter - particularly helpful early on in the processThe Way In by Rita D. Jacobs
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
More General, but Perfect for Inspiration:
The Success Principles by Jack Canfield
Getting Things Done by David Allen
Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky
Experience Your Good Now by Louise L. Hay
The Creative Life by Julia Cameron
Excuses Begone by Wayne Dyer
This Year I Will by M. J. Ryan
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