Writing Class 101 by Rick Kurtis
 
Lesson 38
Edit, edit, edit
Welcome back; I hope you are having fun with your books, and enjoying my lessons. I have no doubt that you have found typos or mistakes in my other thirty-seven lessons. These were only edited by myself, and my wife, and myself again. Just for fun, send me your thoughts. Let me know what you’re working on. If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know. Meanwhile, I want to relay what I have run into.

Lesson 36
Marketing
Welcome back for another week. All my classes are posted on my website in case you missed any, or want to refresh. I hope your week was filled with interesting events. Today I want to continue on marketing. These are just thoughts I have come up with. I am not going to scare you with costs, because these are all up to you.

 
Lesson 35
Costs
Welcome back to another class. I hope everything is going your way with no setbacks, no-cost, and all free things are helping, like this class. I wanted to share with you some expenses that go with being an author.
We all should have the initial expense of roughly $2560.

Printing. Lesson 34
 Welcome back for another week. I hope you found the last seven days extremely productive. Today I want to take a break and just talk, so here we go.
Publishers used to have to buy books in lots of 1000 to keep the cost down. I don’t see why it makes much difference if you set up and print ten books or 1000. One book costs $3.60 to print, but the more you buy, the price goes down. This stands true for a lot of things, such as puzzles, calendars, pens, pencils, business cards, and a-like.

Writing Class 101 by Rick Kurtis
 Consignment sales. Lesson 33
 Welcome back. I hope your week proved prosperous. Today I want to share a thought that someone else had given me.
I have talked a few times about relying on other people to sell your books. They post your book on websites, and place your book in a biannual catalog for over 30,000 stores. Big deal. I have also mentioned that when bookstores purchase from the catalogues, they must buy fifty copies of each book. That rolls into a hefty price if they don’t sell. No wonder why they are going out of business competing with .99 cent e-books.

Writing Class by Rick Kurtis
 In a Slump. Lesson 32
 Welcome back for another lesson. It is so nice to have you all listening, or should I say reading. If you have missed any classes, or this is your first, feel free to read all from the beginning, posted on my website, and I want to thank you for joining us.
A lot of people have asked me, “Rick, how do you get through a slump? I just can’t pick up a pen. I have writer’s block. I don’t seem to find the time. I stare at a blank sheet of paper or my computer.”

Writing Class 101 by Rick Kurtis
 Advertising II. Lesson 31
 Good day to you all. This week went by fast. How about for you? Today I want to touch on advertising. What works and what is a waste of money.
Many have said Facebook and author groups are a waste of time. Groups are all there for the same thing, to showcase their own book. It does make sense. Why would they want to buy your book when they are trying to sell their own book? Facebook is mostly friends and family, and they don’t want to see any advertising.

Writing Class 101 by Rick Kurtis
Lesson 30
Get your ducks in a row.
Welcome back. How much fun have you had? Send me a line and let me know. I have enjoyed every minute. Today, let’s recap, and get our ducks in a row, quack-quack.
Form an idea. Something that you are really passionate about. Learn everything you can in order to make your own decisions. Read or

Writing Class 101 by Rick Kurtis
 Copyrights and registered trademarks. Lesson 29
 It’s been a whole week, and I hope yours was as blessed as mine. A lot of you have asked if they can use places in their book without getting into trouble. I should’ve talked about this earlier in our lessons while many of you were writing your books. I have heard and read that you can use a town, or a place as far as geography, but shouldn’t use a place of business or anything with a trademark, or words to a song without permission.

Writing Class 101
 E-books and sales. Lesson 28
 Today starts a new week. I hope you had a good seven days. Today I want to touch on e-books and sales. If you have found, or gone through a publisher, remember, they don’t care about you. You have to care about you, and market everything yourself. I know this takes away a lot of time from writing your next book, and it frustrates you from your writing, but it’s all part of the game.