{"id":223,"date":"2009-02-26T15:49:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T20:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisatener.com\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2024-09-30T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T13:00:58","slug":"uncredentialed-not-for-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/2009\/02\/uncredentialed-not-for-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncredentialed: Not for Long"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When I first got the idea of writing a book that would help people transform their old habits around anger, and find creative ways to understand and deal with their anger effectively, I had absolutely no credentials in the field nor any writing credentials to speak of.<\/p>\n

How, then, did my first book get published by Health Communications, who published the Chicken<\/p>\n

\"Co-authoring<\/a>
Co-authoring your book with experienced authors or experts can get your book off the ground (and make it better in the process).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Soup for the Soul Series and many bestsellers? I teamed up with experts who had the credentials. I had some good ideas and was able to attract the attention of Peaco Todd, a published author and cartoonist (okay, it helped that she was my friend), and we then sent a letter with a great cartoon (by Peaco, of course) to the experts we thought of as potential collaborators, including Jane Middelton-Moz. She liked our ideas and it worked.<\/p>\n

Collaboration is just one way to get a foot in the door. Here are 3 more:<\/p>\n

1. Interview the Experts<\/strong>: Start locally,\u00a0 regionally or on-line and work your way up to national articles. Interview experts on the subject, until you become one yourself. If you can interview a national expert from the get-go you might even start at the top and write an article on spec for a national publication or high traffic website. If you’ve never written for magazines, you might want to hire an expert to advise you and help you with your queries and editing.<\/p>\n

2. Turn Minuses into Pluses<\/strong>: If you’re writing in a field of PhD policy wonks, turn your outsider status into a badge of humor: think up a funny title for yourself that captures your status in a make-fun-of-yourself kind of way: Perhaps you’re the Underground Economist.<\/p>\n

3. Make a Video and Make it Sticky<\/strong>: I can’t even remember how many people sent me links to that Zeitgeist video on youtube. There was just something about the drama and power of it. I even found it on Organic Consumer’s Association’s website. You can’t just throw up a video and hope it sticks–be strategic, find out what makes a good video, and have a plan for getting the word out.<\/p>\n

Readers, please share what you’ve done to make yourself an expert, or share your questions as comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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