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Neurotechnology with Culinary Memoirs from the Daily Nutrition & Health Reporter

 

By Anne Hart

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  • Published: September, 2009
  • Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
  • Pages: 400
  • Size: 5x8
  • ISBN: 9781440165917
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How do you adapt the intergenerational or ethnic family recipes to preserve the tradition but not its debilitating health effects? That's what culinary memoirs writing covers in addition to getting people to walk down an Epicurian memory lane.

Food is medicine and can be part of neurotechnology. So is relaxing or motivational music that enhances concentration. Here's how they work in tandem for enhancing both memory and digestion along with conversation and body language. Wise food traditions have a long history.

Neurotechnology can help to balance friends and family by motivating the listener's yearning to learn, think, relax, de-stress, focus, and inspire as food, conversation, and music all become interactive healing tools at the table. When nutritionists offer workshops in writing and/or recording culinary memoirs, they usually focus on adapting traditional family recipes by substituting healthier ingredients. One example would be switching to extra virgin olive oil, grapeseed oil, or rice bran oil, instead of baking or frying food using those solid, white hydrogenated trans-fat driven shortenings that their families used in the 1950s.

It can be done with groups of any ages and any physical conditions that can meet together online or in a classroom. Nutritional family historians discuss with students how to write culinary memoirs, traditional family recipe cookbooks, along with adapting old recipes, modifying ethnic menus with healthier substitutions. The idea is to combine neurotechnology with culinary memoirs to achieve a healthy balance.

 

Click on my numerous nutrition and health journalism articles at the Examiner. Also, browse my books.

 

Available Paperback Books Written by Anne Hart.

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1.    101+ Practical Ways to Raise Funds: A Step-by-Step Guide with Answers

2.    101 Ways to Find Six-Figure Medical or Popular Ghostwriting Jobs & Clients  

3.    102 Ways to Apply Career Training in Family History/Genealogy  

4.    1700 Ways to Earn Free Book Publicity

5.    30+ Brain-Exercising Creativity Coach Businesses to Open  

6.    32 Podcasting & Other Businesses to Open Showing People How to Cut Expenses  

7.    35 Video Podcasting Careers and Businesses to Start  

8.    801 Action Verbs for Communicators  

9.    A Perfect Mitzvah Gift Book  

10.  A Private Eye Called Mama Africa  

11.  Ancient and Medieval Teenage Diaries

12.  Anne Joan Levine, Private Eye  

13.  Astronauts and Their Cats  

14.  Cleopatra's Daughter  

15.  Counseling Anarchists  

16.  Cover Letters, Follow-Ups, Queries and Book Proposals

17.  Creating Family Newsletters & Time Capsules  

18.  Creative Genealogy Projects  

19.  Cutting Expenses and Getting More for Less  

20.  Cyber Snoop Nation  

21.  Diet Fads, Careers and Controversies in Nutrition Journalism  

22.  Dogs with Careers: Ten Happy-Ending Stories of Purpose and Passion  

23.  Dramatizing 17th Century Family History of Deacon Stephen Hart & Other Early New England Settlers

24.  Employment Personality Tests Decoded

25.  Ethno-Playography  

26.  Find Your Personal Adam And Eve .

27.  Four Astronauts and a Kitten  

28.  How To Stop Elderly Abuse  

29.  How Two Yellow Labs Saved the Space Program  

30.  How to Interpret Family History and Ancestry DNA Test Results for Beginners  

31.  How to Interpret Your DNA Test Results For Family History & Ancestry

32.   How to Launch a Genealogy TV Business Online  

33.  How to Make Money Organizing Information  

34.  How to Make Money Selling Facts  

35.  How to Make Money Teaching Online With Your Camcorder and PC  

36.  How to Open DNA-Driven Genealogy Reporting & Interpreting Businesses  

37.  How to Open a Business Writing and Publishing Memoirs, Gift Books, or Success Stories for Clients  

38.  How to Publish in Women’s Studies, Men’s Studies, Policy Analysis, & Family History Research  

39.  How to Refresh Your Memory by Writing Salable Memoirs with Laughing Walls  

40.  How to Safely Tailor Your Food, Medicines, & Cosmetics to Your Genes  

41.  How to Start Engaging Conversations on Women's, Men's, or Family Studies with Wealthy Strangers  

42.  How to Start Personal Histories and Genealogy Journalism Businesses  

43.  How to Turn Poems, Lyrics, & Folklore into Salable Children's Books  

44.  How to Video Record Your Dog's Life Story  

45.  How to Write Plays, Monologues, or Skits from Life Stories, Social Issues, or Current Events  

46.  Infant Gender Selection & Personalized Medicine  

47.  Is Radical Liberalism or Extreme Conservatism a Character Disorder, Mental Disease, or Publicity Campaign?  

48.  Job Coach-Life Coach-Executive Coach-Letter & Resume-Writing Service  

49.  Large Print Crossword Puzzles for Memory Enhancement  

50.  Make Money With Your Camcorder and PC: 25+ Businesses  

51.  Middle Eastern Honor Killings in the USA  

52.  Murder in the Women's Studies Department  

53.  New Afghanistan's TV Anchorwoman .

54.  Nutritional Genomics - A Consumer's Guide to How Your Genes and Ancestry Respond to Food  

55.  One Day Some Schlemiel Will Marry Me, Pay the Bills, and Hug Me.

56.  Popular Health & Medical Writing for Magazines  

57.  Power Dating Games  

58.  Predictive Medicine for Rookies  

59.  Problem-Solving and Cat Tales for the Holidays  

60.  Proper Parenting in Ancient Rome  

61.  Roman Justice: SPQR  

62.  Sacramento Latina  

63.  Scrapbooking, Time Capsules, Life Story Desktop Videography & Beyond with Poser 5, CorelDRAW ® Graphics Suite 12 & Corel WordPerfect Office Suite 12  

64.  Search Your Middle Eastern and European Genealogy  

65.  Social Smarts Strategies That Earn Free Book Publicity  

66.  The Beginner's Guide to Interpreting Ethnic DNA Origins for Family History  

67.  The Courage to Be Jewish and the Wife of an Arab Sheik  

68.  The DNA Detectives  

69.  The Date Who Unleashed Hell  

70.  The Freelance Writer's E-Publishing Guidebook  

71.  The Khazars Will Rise Again!  

72.  The Writer's Bible  

73.  Tools for Mystery Writers  

74.  Tracing Your Baltic, Scandinavian, Eastern European, & Middle Eastern Ancestry Online  

75.  Tracing Your Jewish DNA For Family History & Ancestry  

76.  Verbal Intercourse  

77.  Where to Find Your Arab-American or Jewish Genealogy Records  

78.  Who's Buying Which Popular Short Fiction Now, & What Are They Paying?  

79.  Why We Never Give Up Our Need for a Perfect Mother  

80.  Writer's Guide to Book Proposals  

81.  Writing 45-Minute One-Act Plays, Skits, Monologues, & Animation Scripts for Drama Workshops  

82.  Writing 7-Minute Inspirational Life Experience Vignettes  

83.  Writing What People Buy  

84.  Writing, Financing, & Producing Documentaries

85.  How to Start, Teach, & Franchise a Creative Genealogy Writing Class or Club: The Craft of Producing Salable Living Legacies, Celebrations of Life, Genealogy Periodicals, Family Newsletters, Time Capsules, Biographies, Fiction, Memoirs, Ethno-Plays, Skits, Monologues, Autobiographies, Events, Reunion Publications, or Gift Books

86. How to Make Basic Natural Cleaning Products from Foods: Solve your stain removal problems with spices, oils, salt, baking soda, vegetables, cream of tartar, milk, vinegar, or alcohol, and make your own mouthwash, toothpaste, shampoo, and pesticides from zinc, plants, calcium, oils, or vitamins. Shine hardwood floors and furniture with tea and linseed oil. Here are the best of the recipes and also where to find more home-made cleaning or greening recipes on-line.

87. How Nutrigenomics Fights Childhood Type-2 Diabetes & Weight Issues: Validating Holistic Nutrition in Plain Language. ISBN: 0-595-53535-6. See: http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000071525

88. ADVENTURES in my beloved MEDIEVAL ALANIA and Beyond: A TIME-TRAVEL NOVEL SET IN THE 10TH CENTURY CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS, ISBN: 9781440119552. See: http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000122188

89. Traveling Poems and Short Stories. Published both in paperback and as an e-book by lulu.com. See: http://www.lulu.com/content/3879306.

90.  Do You Have the Aptitude & Personality to Be A Popular Author? Professional Creative Writing Assessments ISBN: 9781440125201. (ASJA Press imprint, iuniverse.inc.,http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000124541.

 

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Do You Have the Aptitude & Personality to Be A Popular Author?

Professional Creative Writing Assessments

By Anne Hart

Published: March, 2009

  • Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
  • Pages: 264
  • Size: 5x8
  • Paperback $18.95 from publisher, ASJA Press imprint, www.iUniverse.com. Available also at most online bookseller's Web sites.
  • ISBN: 9781440125201

Are you best-suited to be a historical novelist, mystery writer, short story sprinter, digital interactive story writer on ancient civilizations, a nonfiction writer, or an author of thrillers using historical settings or universal themes?

Do you think like a fiction writer, investigative journalist, or an imaginative, creative nonfiction author writing biography in the style of genre or mainstream fiction? Enhance your creativity.

How are you going to clarify and resolve the issues, problems, or situations in your plot by the way your characters behave to move the action forward? How do you get measurable results when writing fiction or creative nonfiction? Consider what steps you show to reveal how your story is resolved by the characters.

This also is known as the denouement. Denouement as it applies to a short story or novel is the final resolution. It’s your clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot. What category of denouement will your characters take to move the plot forward?

Take the writing style preference classifier and find out how you approach your favorite writing style using facts and acts. Which genre is for you--interactive, traditional, creative nonfiction, fiction, decisive or investigative?

Would you rather write for readers that need to interact with their own story endings or plot branches? Which style best fits you? What’s your writing profile?

Enjoy this ancient echoes writing genre interest, personality, and aptitude classifier and see the various ways in which way you can be more creative. There are 35 questions—seven questions for each of the five pairs. There are 10 choices, five assessments and a section on how to write a novel/story/script by developing depth of character that drives your plot.

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ADVENTURES IN MY BELOVED MEDIEVAL ALANIA AND BEYOND

A Time-Travel Novel Set in the 10th Century Caucasus Mountains

By Anne Hart

  • Published: February, 2009
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 324
  • Size: 5x8
  • ISBN: 9781440119552

This Medieval Princess in the Caucasus Mountains Seeks to Do Acts of Kindness. My life adventure is resilience and to find a voice that resonates all of my confidence. Now in my youth just before I will become sixteen years of age, my confidence speaks all about lighting a wonderful brightness and walking out of the darkness of insatiable banalities.

With the renewal of spring, the world is repaired, and the gardens bloom in my magnificent Alania. I walk up steep hills and ride far to remember each intimate glimpse of blooms on trees and to listen as waterfalls whisper. We have come up here all the way from Sarkel to remain here in the mountains, close to my childhood home.

To insure my confidence, my voice, and my resilience, here I light the eternal flame to brighten the damp room. I am Raziet, now called Serakh. I am Karachaian-Balkarian, and from my grandfathers, of sweet Alania. I am partly Khazar and partly from the peoples that dwell by Mount Elbrus. I am all of them, all mixed together for generations. My many ancestors came from Persia, the Kavkaz, the Steppes, Turan and Altai, the Urals, the Adigha, and beyond where the sky rides the moon.

I am the tamga of the horse, the orchards, my pet wolf, and the open grasslands. And today, I am here, not where the Volga meets the Caspian, but with our friends and my cousin breathing deeply the sparkling air beneath my Mount Elbrus. We wait in our aoul. We are all of my magnificient Alania, and here now, in this land of orchards to the north, the scent of the birch trees, the patina, the starlight, my venture, value, and vision.

Sit at my table and experience the eternal light of Alania and Khazaria and all the rest of these mountains and rivers from the Caucasus to the seas of Pontus and Meotis. We are all one from many in the joy of life and we are here to do acts of kindness.

 

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How Nutrigenomics Fights Childhood Type-2 Diabetes & Weight Issues

Validating Holistic Nutrition in Plain Language

By Anne Hart

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  • Published: August, 2008
  • Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
  • Pages: 188
  • Size: 6x9
  • ISBN: 9780595535354

People vary in responses to food. What can scientists and researchers tell most family members about "healing nutrition" information to combat childhood type-2 diabetes or weight issues?

How do you explain individualized, tailored, and customized nutrition in plain language to parents, children, and food retailers and to your own healthcare practitioner?

Is it a scientific fact, metabolic reality, common sense, or cultural practice that reports of eating a lot of meat by a metabolic-typed carbohydrate type person might turn to fat, whereas eating mostly vegetables and fruits by a protein-type person might turn to fat because the carbohydrate-type person may be a slow oxidizer of sugar but the protein-type person may be a fast oxider of sugar? (Sugar perhaps would hit the bloodstream faster, causing spikes in insulin due to possible insulin resistance.) Tests can determine how you metabolize foods.

Would a nutrigenomics-oriented genetic test of specific markers give clues? Or would measuring the insulin response after eating sweets reveal sugar spikes that a fasting glucose blood test might not show on paper?

What's out there to learn about dangerous eating, food misinformation, and healing foods? Is it true that one person's dangerous foods are another person's healing foods based on metabolic and genetic body types? Is it true that specific foods turn into fuel for one person but become fat for another individual?

See: http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000071525 to browse book at the publisher's site at http://www.iuniverse.com.

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How to Make Basic Natural Cleaning Products from Foods

By Anne Hart

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Published: May, 2008

  • Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
  • Pages: 108
  • Size: 5.5x8.5
  • ISBN: 9780595523665
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Here are the best of the recipes and also where to find more home-made cleaning or greening recipes on-line. Solve stain removal problems with organic spices, oils, salt, baking soda, vegetables, herbs, cream of tartar, milk, vinegar, or rubbing alcohol, and create your own mouthwash, toothpaste, shampoo, and pesticides from zinc, vitamin tabs, plants, calcium, oils, minerals, or spices.

Shine hardwood floors and furniture with tea and linseed oil. Mix shampoos from tea or air freshener from lemons and baking soda.

You can clean almost anything with foods. Create your own household products, soaps, and shampoos. Place a tablespoon of salt into ¼ cup of baking soda. Soak your white cotton clothing in a solution of water, salt and baking soda.

Tired of commercial mouthwash? Rinse with a mouthwash you can make by mixing 4 drops of clove oil, 2 drops of myrrh, one tablet of zinc, and one tablet of folic acid (that you buy in a health-food store) in 16 ounces (473 mil.) of water. Let the tablets dissolve in the water and then shake well.

Develop your own toothpaste, shampoos wet or dry, for humans, dogs, or cats. Design shoes, pens, scratched DVD solutions, floor shiners, and cleaners.

Anne Hart's Novels & How-to Books

Articles and instruction in creative writing, personal history techniques, and genealogy journalism resources.

101 Ways to Find Six-Figure Medical or Popular Ghostwriting Jobs & Clients: A Step-by-Step Guide

How would you like to earn perhaps $100,000 annually as a medical or other specialty ghostwriter? Here is the training to help you specialize in regulatory or marketing writing.

How would you like to earn perhaps $100,000 annually as a medical or other specialty ghostwriter? You don’t necessarily need a degree in science to earn six figures as a ghostwriter. What you do need is to focus or specialize in one subject or area of expertise.

If you choose medical ghostwriting, you’d be writing pharmaceutical reports or informational books about research and clinical trials performed by scientists, physicians, and researchers. You could work with pharmaceutical firms, medical software manufacturers, or for public relations firms or literary agents.

You’d be making a lot more than the usual $10,000 a ghostwriter may receive for writing a career development how-to book. Medical ghostwriters can receive up to $20,000 per report.

Pharmaceutical and clinical trials reports or medical journal articles often are written by ghostwriters. Ghostwriting medical or other factual information is big business. It’s one way pharmaceutical manufacturers communicate with physicians.

If you want to ghostwrite in this field, get paid to investigate information physicians receive about medicines and interview researchers, you can take the roads leading to steadier writing jobs, document management, or run your own business as a medical, business, or celebrity ghostwriter. Here is the training you need to begin if you enjoy journalism with an attitude.

How Much to Charge for Ghostwriting: Excerpt from 101 Ways to Find Six-Figure Medical or Popular Ghostwriting Jobs & Clients.

Copyright by Anne Hart, 2006.


The two biggest problems ghostwriters contend with is paring down redundancy-repetition in a speech, book, or article and inconsistencies in memoirs and novels and listening with an 'ear' for how the ghostwritten work portrays the 'voice' of resilience (point of view and style) of the non-silent author. You're hired to write and eliminate redundancy. Most ghostwriters are paid to microedit a manuscript.

You also must play editor and organize similar topics that have to be grouped together. You must check for indents and other spacing problems such as too many "hard returns" on the keyboard, tab spacing, spelling errors, word usage, and grammar inconsistencies in the notes or recorded voice of a professional or entrepreneur. Other times a ghostwriter is hired to write an entire book, booklet, speech, or article from scratch based on recorded interviews.

You're paid to be highly creative and down-to-earth factual, stable and under control. Your writing must be animated, not flat, and you have to satisfy your client's wishes as to how the book sounds to the outside world. You must follow directions and yet be visionary, be charismatic in print, and promote what your client is offering with facts that can be checked for credibility. You represent your client's reputation and career.

The client, also called the primary author most likely has an agent and a publisher, but needs a silent co-author-a ghostwriter-whose name will never appear on the book to partner on a book-to-book or project-to-project basis. A literary agent or a celebrity's manager may be the person most likely to ask you to ghostwrite a book. Sometimes, a physician, nutritionist, traveler, executive, entrepreneur, video producer, or any type of scientist may seek out a medical ghostwriter.

You may be contacted by someone who has been in the news, or a politician. Usually, though, you'll have to let others know you're a ghostwriter because you'll be invisible.

Steady work in ghostwriting usually comes from medical ghostwriting for physicians, pharmaceutical firms, and biomedical scientists. Medical ghostwriters may write articles and advertising copy that appear in medical journals, regulatory articles about clinical trials, or medical marketing and continuing education materials. All kinds of ghostwriters deal with macroediting and microediting issues and need to manage these issues. Microediting is selective editing. It is similar to your writing and editing being examined under a microscope to check for confusing sentences, weak points, flawed arguments, inconsistencies, and bad logic, errors in math, spacing, and correction of tables.

In microediting, you need to validate and edit the item showing any changes from start to finish. You'd need to include historical information at micro-level. In order to find the historical information, for example, of a study from start to finish with applications and outcomes, you need to look at periodic surveys. For a great definition of microediting, macroediting, and copy editing, look at the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) Journal, Volume 15, No. 4, page 19, Fall 2000. It's online at: http://www.amwa.org/default/publications/journal/v15.4/vol.15.no.4.p19.feature.pdf#search=%22macroediting%2C%20definition%22
Macroediting is editing the big picture.

Most of what you'll do in general ghostwriting is macroediting. You'd need to check for parallelism. You'd have to make sure various elements are parallel if they belong in the same series.

You'd make a list of graphs, figures, or tables. You'd check words for verb tense to make sure there were no inconsistencies or changes, and explain unfamiliar words. Copyediting of biomedical material consists of correcting language, format, and mechanical style to meet publication standards. You'd be required to do "substantive editing" and proofreading of your work at take charge of it by managing the editing process.

Most ghostwriters don't only write the life stories of celebrities, corporate case histories and success stories, current events, or the rise and fall of executives and politicians. The majority of ghostwriters write books for health care professionals, scientists, or attorneys.

Biomedical ghostwriters use a particular style that makes the text unique to medical information, such as continuing education materials, advertising, or clinical trials and regulatory reports. You can teach yourself the stylistics of editing by reading the work of other medical writers who consistently produce good work.

There are principles of editing medial text and books on this subject to read. Start with the American Medical Association's AMA Manual of Style. Look for readability scales and grammar. Analyze medical text books and reports. You can form or join a medical writing critique group. If there's none nearby, create your own online. What you're looking for is to learn how to identify grammar and rhetoric while examining the trends in medical writing related to the standards of what is acceptable.

Medical writing has its own standards of what is correct. You need to understand what information you require and locate the sources. Then you should evaluate what information you find by searching medical, business, and government regulatory sources.

Medical and pharmaceutical marketing ghostwriters don't necessarily need to have majored in a life science. A sizable number of specialty marketing ghostwriters come from the ranks of English or journalism majors that enroll for a master's degree or certificate in medical writing and ask for an internship as a medical ghostwriter.

The fastest way to begin is to open your own ghostwriting business as a freelancer and outsource medical ghostwriters to work for you that already have experience in a specialty. You can run a temporary ghostwriting service hiring those with the experience you don't have to take temporary assignments in regulatory or marketing ghostwriting. You can also learn by practicing the type of writing your clients are doing.

Begin Ghostwriting By Contacting Owners of Public Relations Agencies with Celebrity Clients

Start by contacting public relations agency owners who deal mostly with celebrities. They often have requests to write how-to books by the celebrities they represent. With experience, you can move on to writing the memoirs of entertainers or other celebrities in the news. Public relations agencies that publish books with information about celebrities are a good start for beginning ghostwriters trying to break in. The first book assignments you get may be writing how-to books on careers for celebrity clients or other publicists working for a larger agency. The next hurdle is writing the memoirs of celebrities.

Ghostwriters may be chosen from a team or pool of writers who specialize in biographies of entertainers or other figures in the news. You may be hired to write speeches, books, booklets, articles, annual business reports, scripts, multimedia presentations, learning materials, news releases, and more for professionals, publishers, and corporate executives.

What might you expect to hear as a ghostwriter from the author with whom you are partnered for a project? There are lots of humorous situations you'll find when ghostwriting.

Below is an example of a humorous conversational example sent to me as email from one ghostwriter who has asked to be listed as anonymous.

Hi Anne!

A few horror stories…

Me: So in the proposal, you have a chapter called Creative Resilience. Could you tell me something about that?

Expert: Well, when we need to be resilient, it's important to get creative.
(long pause…)

Me: Do you have anything to add to that?
Expert: Um, not really.

Me: Sooo...this would be more of a sentence than a chapter?
Expert: Yeah, I think so.

Another funny one…

The expert who had her elderly father who she said was "really smart" faxed me his scribbled and cryptic notes on the meaning of life, and asked me if that could be "worked into the book somewhere." When I asked her to give me her thoughts on what he had written (as I couldn't make heads or tails out of it), she had none.
Same expert asked one of her friends to write a "corrected" version of a Buddhist-type teaching story I had put in her book at her bequest. You see, the friend knew I got it "wrong" because she'd seen it on CSI or some show like that a few weeks before. (I found 4 versions on the Internet)...

Same expert had to write a chapter on a particular subject and asked me to go to the bookstore and see what other people had written so she could get some ideas on what she wanted to say in her book of advice to the masses.
Q. Most ghostwriters are invisible. Here's the chance to write about what you enjoy most about ghostwriting. What's the most important lesson you've learned from life as a ghostwriter?

1. Don't get involved if there is no time to write it and way too much money involved, even if your cut of the advance is a big one. The pressure of time and a ridiculously large advance will fall on YOU, unfair though it may be. You'll be expected to work miracles overnight.

2. If you can't get the expert to give you SPECIFIC ideas that would work as bullet points under each of his chapter ideas in the proposal, it doesn't matter if everyone is over the moon about the proposal. YOU judge the proposal, and YOU find out what the expert's main ideas are. If they're awfully fuzzy, listen to your instincts and say "no."

3. Do not do a minute's worth of work until the check to you has cleared. Period. No excuses. It's not your problem that the author's contract with the publisher has been held up, or that the agency can't front you the money for your first payment, and that the author is sooooo strapped for money this month. Let them find someone else to do it, if they can't pay you from the moment you begin work, forget them.

4. Be very careful about plagiarism. Experts who are not writers are prone to accidentally plagiarizing from the Internet or from other authors. If it doesn't sound like they wrote it, they probably didn't.

5. When the agent and editor say they want you to capture the expert's "voice," they don't mean his actual voice, they mean the voice he would ideally have given what their flap copy has to say about him. Throw in his catchphrases to make it sound like "him," but the actual voice should not sound like how he actually talks or, god forbid, writes.

6. Ask the expert why he wants a ghostwriter. If it's being imposed upon him by the publisher and you sense he has airs about being an author, RUN.

Q. How Much Do You Charge?

Usually, it's a flat fee. Sometimes, I've done deals where the flat fee is based on a certain number of my hours at my hourly rate, and the author and I work together to estimate the time needed and we communicate when I'm running short or long, and in the end, they pay me according to my actual hours. If I'm short, they may "bank" their hours for use on the next project (this is only for clients who write multiple books with me).

I have not yet written speeches or booklets or brochures. Once, I did ghost an article for a book I'd edited. I've never worked with a PR agency. I've ghosted books by professionals and a semi-celebrity.

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How Much to Charge Depends upon What Your Client Will Pay for Visibility

You have the choice to charge by a day rate or by the word. Corporate ghostwriting usually offers you a flat fee or hourly amount. If your manuscript goes through several iterations (revisions) before approved by a group, a corporation, or even one person, you'll get more money charging an hourly amount. Be sure to specify in your contract that you'll be paid an hourly amount for each revision of your manuscript.

Ghostwriters are outsiders brought into a corporation or nonprofit agency to present favorable images and words. You are either looked upon by a company as an outsider who might make more trouble than you are worth because you haven't been an insider long enough.

Or you're looked upon as a connecting bridge. The bridge is there to convince, promote, and represent the company's image, reliability, and credibility to the world. You're there to connect the outside world to what benefits the company offers. Using words and images, you share meaning. You communicate. And you are paid according to the results the company gets from your words.


Ghostwriting White Papers and Annual Reports

In a corporate setting you'll be ghostwriting annual reports and "white papers" for an executive, committee, or group. You'll also be ghostwriting articles and perhaps speeches, presentations, or scripts for slide shows and training videos. Articles and white papers usually offer you pay based on a per-word basis.

When ghostwriting sales letters, charge by the hour. Direct mail marketing and other types of sales letters may be ghostwritten for advertising agencies and marketing firms. In an advertising agency or marketing corporation, you probably will be paid by the day for ghostwriting. If you're experienced, the current rate is about $500 to $600 per day. At this high-end rate, you'll be coming into an office and working under supervision so your hours can be clocked.

Rates: Ghostwriting Speeches

Doing corporate work requires negotiation on contracts. If you know more about the business or product that the managers, you can negotiate on a per-day fee basis. Corporate ghostwriting often requires speech writing. The current rate for experienced corporate speechwriters is about $1,000 per day to write a five-minute speech.

At the $1,000 per day rate, make sure there is no fluff, unnecessary, or distracting words in your speech. A five-minute speech must pack in the most important points the corporation wants to make about a product, service, or situation.

How to Evaluate Your Ghostwritten Speech

Read your speech aloud and record it. Play it back and listen how it sounds to the ear. Ask several listeners to give you feedback before you cut and revise. What you're looking for is not only effective words but the cadence and rhythm of the speech. Listen to what you write by reading it aloud and playing it back several times. Is it smooth and consistent?

Your goal is efficacy. Pare the words to bare bones. Look for impact. Keep sentences short and simple. Use two-sentence paragraphs. Here are 20 pointers to consider before ghostwriting speeches.

Rates: Ghostwriting Corporate Web Pages

When writing corporate Web pages, you become a "content writer" charging by the hour. The current rate is about $100 per hour. Rates vary tremendously with the size of the corporation, the geographic location, and your experience.

If you work an eight-hour day at $100 an hour, billing $800 a day is expected. Let the managers know what you'll bill for an eight-hour day if the project will take you eight hours. Short word count items such as Web pages, sales letters, news releases, or brief feature articles allow you to invoice your employers by the hour. Most short projects require several revisions and lots of rewriting before they are approved. Of course, rates will change with the passing years. Research what the current rates for freelance and staff medical writers and/or ghostwriters are in your area in the various specialties and niches before you begin.

How would you like to earn perhaps $100,000 annually as a medical or other specialty ghostwriter? Here is the training to help you specialize in regulatory or marketing writing.

How would you like to earn perhaps $100,000 annually as a medical or other specialty ghostwriter? You don’t necessarily need a degree in science to earn six figures as a ghostwriter. What you do need is to focus or specialize in one subject or area of expertise.

If you choose medical ghostwriting, you’d be writing pharmaceutical reports or informational books about research and clinical trials performed by scientists, physicians, and researchers. You could work with pharmaceutical firms, medical software manufacturers, or for public relations firms or literary agents.

You’d be making a lot more than the usual $10,000 a ghostwriter may receive for writing a career development how-to book. Medical ghostwriters can receive up to $20,000 per report. Pharmaceutical and clinical trials reports or medical journal articles often are written by ghostwriters. Ghostwriting medical or other factual information is big business. It’s one way pharmaceutical manufacturers communicate with physicians.

If you want to ghostwrite in this field, get paid to investigate information physicians receive about medicines and interview researchers, you can take the roads leading to steadier writing jobs, document management, or run your own business as a medical, business, or celebrity ghostwriter. Here is the training you need to begin if you enjoy journalism with an attitude.

To learn more about the book titled: 101 WAYS TO FIND SIX-FIGURE MEDICAL OR POPULAR GHOSTWRITING JOBS & CLIENTS, A STEP BY STEP GUIDE, browse the book at the publisher's web site at: http://www.iuniverse.com. There are two types of medical writing or ghostwriting. There's writing of medical trials and/or scientific writing for journals and then there's marketing writing for advertising copy, public relations, media news releases, and sales data about pharmaceuticals, products, services, and medical devices.

Whether you choose a career in ghostwriting or writing under your own byline as a medical journalist, when you think of finding a job as a writer, think about what materials you will develop in areas such as medical marketing or science and health writing for popular periodicals, medical economics and business publications, infomercials, newsletters, Web sites, preparing training materials, or writing articles, copy, or abstracts for professional journals.

Browse the Book Before You Buy on the publisher's site at: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-41679-9.

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How to Start, Teach, & Franchise a Creative Genealogy Writing Class or Club: The Craft of Producing Salable Living Legacies, Celebrations of Life, Genealogy Periodicals, Family Newsletters, Time Capsules, Biographies, Fiction, Memoirs, Ethno-Plays, Skits, Monologues, Autobiographies, Events, Reunion Publications, or Gift Books

Publisher's price: $20.95
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 329
ISBN: 0-595-52212-2
Published: Jun-2008
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It's easy to start, teach, and franchise a creative genealogy writing club, class, or publication. Flesh out each category with your additional research and resources.
 
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It’s easy to start, teach, and franchise a creative genealogy writing club, class, or publication. Start by looking at the descriptions of each business and outline a plan for how your group operates. Flesh out each category with your additional research pertaining to your local area and your resources. Your goal always is to solve problems and get measurable results or find accurate records and resources. Or research personal history and DNA-driven genealogy interpretation reporting.

You can make keepsake albums/scrapbooks, put video online or on disc, and create multimedia text and image with sound productions or work with researching records in archives, oral history, or living legacies and time capsules. A living legacy is a celebration of life as it is now.

A time capsule contains projects and products, items, records, and research you want given to future generations such as genograms of medical record family history, family newsletters, or genealogy documents, diaries, photos, and video transcribed as text or oral history for future generations without current technology to play the video discs. Or start and plan a family and/or school reunion project or franchise, business or event. Another alternative is the genealogy-related play or skit, life story, or memoir.
 
 

BOOK EXCERPT (from Chapter 21): © by Anne Hart 2008

Genogram Self-Help Seminar and Convention Newsletters, Discs, Reports, or Year Books

DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

Genograms are medical history genealogy records for the use of families to follow the medical history of generations of their ancestors. Your gift books may cover self-help seminars, lectures, and conventions or health-related events and institutions, such as self-help groups and classes given by HMOs or senior centers. Start a consumer guidance group or watchdog publication in a specific niche area to research and report latest news in plain language such as how to interpret what consumers usually have access to.

 Show people at seminars and in other situations how to make a time capsule containing genograms or how to find higher quality and/or alternative nutrition and health care based on looking at their ancestry and genealogy or family lifestyles. If you don’t have insurance or need to save money on your health, make sure you take advantage of free health screenings offered at health fairs.

Senior centers, shopping malls, health departments, and other health agencies or businesses have frequent health fairs. Some items you can get for free include blood pressure and bone density screenings, cholesterol and blood glucose readings, weight, and other measures.

 Flu shots usually are given free or at very low cost to certain age groups such as older adults. Call each health fair and ask the requirements.

Many screenings don’t have age requirements. Ask that copies of the reports be sent to you as well as your doctor. Keep a record of your numbers and measurements. Different health fairs emphasize screening for different health issues such as bone density, blood sugar, blood pressure, or other research. Your health department and the sponsors of the health fair will have the schedules.

Study the health Web sites for factual material that you can research in magazines and journals. Health food stores have free booklets and pamphlets on various supplements and health food products.

 

INCOME POTENTIAL

 

There’s income in referring people to various health establishments ranging from clinical trials that pay people or give them free examinations to spas, rehabilitation centers, home health care services, senior services, assisted living apartments, anti-aging conventions, alternative medicine and health treatments, nutrition retreats, free plastic surgery from physicians who donate their time free and travel around the world on hospital ships, to reducing farms.

Usually, you would earn a commission much like a travel agent from the health care establishment you refer people to by educating them with facts about the establishment or the research as in clinical trials of various new treatments. Ask the establishment what percentage of a commission for referrals you’d be paid.

You can also publish material or reports about the health service or offer marketing communications services and information dissemination. You’re acting as “an observer” reporting information about the health care establishment, procedure, clinical trial, or other service. Or you’re making referrals by finding new clients for the establishment for a commission or flat fee.

 Use your public library to read about what foods and nutrients work best. Make use of any offers for paid-for DNA testing for ancestry. Some genealogy surname groups on the Web offer to pay for DNA tests for ancestry.

Find out whether your surname fits the projects being researched. These tests usually are for males, and the Y chromosome is tested for ancestry research connected to some surname groups. Ask the various DNA testing companies that emphasize testing for ancestry whether there is a surname group offering to pay for DNA Y chromosome ancestry tests for males with the same surname, if there’s a project researching the ancestry of that particular surname.

Besides attending conventions or expos and trade shows, referring people for clinical trials, or traveling to give lectures as a medical journalist or health referral agent, you could write and/or publish alternative health booklets. Here’s how  to publish these types of pamphlets.

 

OPERATING YOUR BUSINESS

 

Publish books of the highlights and significant points of your own or with permission, other authors’ 72-page or 98-page pamphlets and booklets on alternative health, clinical trials, nutrition, spas, procedures, or contemporary issues, pet training, animal behavior, parenting, or school-related subjects such as biographies of historical characters, ethnic studies, or any other subject of interest to a wide or niche audience.

 

You can publish the books or pamphlets. Write them yourself or use with permission other writers’ pamphlets, and then produce video segments dramatizing, reviewing, or discussing the materials. Also, you could narrate the video MP4 files known as podcasts online. Or create multimedia presentations and slide shows to be saved on DVDs or CDs.

Before you produce compressed video MP4 files known as video podcasts based on self-help books, booklets or pamphlets on controversial issues in the news or controversies in health, nutrition, or other issues, you’d have to write and publish those pamphlets. Your gift book and/or video podcast to promote your paper and photo gift book can publicize what you write and publish yourself. Make sure nothing is copyrighted by someone else.

 All material must be original based on interviews with your client on how some event helped that person solve problems, achieve results, and find benefits through some steps taken—some action. It’s a behavior, an attitude, a change in lifestyle, or better nutrition that usually helps improve the health and outlook or attitude of your client.

Pamphlets as customized gift books can be of the general consumer type found at supermarket check-out counters or specialty pamphlets on how-to subjects. Or they can be genre fiction such as children’s stories, romances, or biography. Another form of pamphlet is the one-act 45 minute play suitable for high-school drama classes.

Here's how to write and sell a fast-selling paperback 98-page (when published) pamphlet or booklet, the kind you see on supermarket impulse racks at the check stand. They can sell quite a number of copies, or you can sell them by mail order or online from your Web site.

            Start by writing about twice the number of pages that will be published. For a 98-page booklet, about 196 double spaced typed pages produces, usually a single-spaced booklet with double spaces and headlines between the sections. You may come out with having to write less than 196 pages, it depends upon the font and size of the booklet. However, here are the dimensions you'll need.

            The size of the booklet may either be six inches wide by nine inches in length or five and a half inches wide by 8 inches or 8 1/2 inches in length. Take your choice. The difference is that trade paperbacks of 6 by 9 inches fit on supermarket impulse racks at checkout counters, whereas the mass market paperbacks you see in supermarkets and book stores in the back areas on special 5 by 8 book-size racks are standard for novels in the mass paperback market.

            Let's say you choose the 6 by 9 size, which is the best fit for the impulse check out stand supermarket size. It will also fit into gift shops and specialty store racks. You'll have a soft, glossy cover with your price, usually $2.99 printed on the upper right hand corner of the book cover. The title will be placed in the middle of the book cover toward the upper half. It will be centered and have a two-word to five-word title that speaks volumes about what's in your little paper book.

            In the middle of the cover, explain in one short sentence in smaller font, about 24 point what your book shows people how to do. It must be a how-to book such as how to find and keep a soul-mate, or some other how-to theme.

            Below the explanation is the author's name: By: Joe John, or whatever name you want on the cover. Inside the cover on the left hand side you print the name of your publishing company. Assuming you're publishing the booklet yourself, put an intelligent-sounding two-word name for your publishing company such as Behavioral Digests and trade mark your publishing firm, even if it's only you at home.

             Then under than you can put a longer publishing company name, just in case you want to publish other items besides these little paperback booklets. Put something light Published by International Palm-sized Books, Inc., and your address. You can incorporate your publishing company. Use an office address or a PO Box number, not your home address. You don't want people showing up on the front steps.

             Under your mailing address, write: “Copyright, the year, by, your publishing company, address and e-mail address.” Leave out your home phone.

You can add a disclaimer in small font at the bottom that "Reproduction in whole or part of any (your publishing company's name) without written authorization is prohibited. Then add at the bottom, "printed in the USA" or wherever you send the booklet to be printed. I understand printing prices in Singapore are great, so I hear from greeting card publishers nowadays.

             On your first page's right hand side, print the name of the book centered up close to the top of the page, leaving a 2 inch margin from the top. Put in a small clip art illustration or your own art, and then a line and a by (author's name) at the bottom, leaving another 2 inch margin from the bottom.

             The left hand side of the first page can have an illustration centered. On the right hand side put your table of contents. Label it Contents. Divide your booklet into six small chapters and list them. Let's say your book is on how to find a rich mate. Label it with a title, such as why am I single? Then have a second chapter on your cure-all for loneliness.

             A third chapter on raising your feeling of importance, a fourth chapter on how to appreciate being by yourself in various settings, a fifth chapter on how to find your soul mate and where to look, and a last or sixth chapter on how to keep your mate once you found him or her. Mostly women will buy this book on impulse, but if the book is labeled, how to pick up girls, of course it will attract guys or anyone who wants to meet girls.

             The left hand side of your table of contents page should have artwork on it centered. Then on page 7, a right-hand side page, your first chapter begins with the title, self-explanatory and short, usually asking a question which you will answer in your first chapter. Define your question and answer it. Keep each chapter four printed pages, which is eight double spaced type written pages. When made single-spaced, each chapter runs to about four printed pages each.

             Then start your second chapter on page eleven. Break your booklet up into segments or chunks. The printing will be singled spaced with double spaces between each section heading. Show the reader how to solve a problem or fill a need. The problem could be technical or personal, business-oriented or relationship-oriented, health-directed, or about healing and nutrition, parenting, or any subject likely to land on a supermarket check out counter's impulse rack.

             After every 14 or 14 chapters, usually 13 to 15 chapters, you'll need a segment or section break with a new title, perhaps outline your case histories, success stories, anecdotes, interviews, or using someone as an example. Don't use real names unless you have signed permission letters and can footnote that at the end of each chapter in a list of references that's numbered. For brevity, use a first name only and an initial, usually a fake false name approved by whomever you interview with an asterisk saying the name was changed to preserve privacy.

             Use more than one example, usually two or three case histories. You can also use celebrity examples if you can get permission for success stories that run about 13 paragraphs each.

             Have sections divided if you can around page 19, 21, 23, and start another chapter heading around page 28. Every two pages should have section breaks with new headings. You might write and publish a booklet on journaling and describe how it's related to a feeling of self-importance or of accepting oneself as "good," or write a technical or business how-to if you're not an expert on relationships.

             More women will buy these booklets if they're about relationships. You can focus on instructional booklets on any topic from needlepoint and crafts to how to paint furniture and offer it to do-it-yourself stores, such as the big chain stores that customers frequent to buy do-it yourself materials for home repair and building. Another fast-selling area is travel writing.

             This would focus on where to go and how to find specifics from antiques to restaurants and entertainment for various ages, education, visual anthropology, or special needs, such as traveling with multiple disabilities or traveling with one's dog or cat. One person trains his cat to use any toilet so he can take it into motel rooms without a litter box.

             Your main focus is on how to do something, build something, solve a problem, make choices, or fill various needs, from quilting to relationships. Most people buy booklets with general titles such as how to keep a mate from leaving or how to save a troubled marriage.

             Your six-chapter booklet should take up about 98 pages when printed, so don't make it longer or it won't fit into the small books rack in supermarkets and gift shops. It's easier to mail that way. Break your six chapters into three sections that run about two pages each per section with each chapter about four to six pages in length, but vary the length throughout the booklet.

             Distribute it yourself or find a distributor who handles the supermarket impulse checkout counter rack. Or you can use gift shops or mail order. Another way to go is to offer your booklet to the tabloids as they have publishing divisions for these types of little books. They'll take a lot of your profit, so my advice is do everything yourself from writing to selling.

             A print run of 1,500 copies would test your markets, but do your market research first to make sure someone would buy your book in large numbers. You might try a test run in a supermarket to see if the booklet moves and whether it competes with the tabloid-published booklets of similar size and length. 

              Will the tabloids let you compete with them in their supermarket client's racks? If not, you have the small gift shops and the malls. If you want to move the booklet, also offer it on tape or online for the e-publishing download market or on a CD ROM or DVD disk. Look at all the marketing alternatives and give your booklet visibility in place where people gather. Career booklets belong in community college and high school career counseling libraries.

 

Non-Fiction Booklets and Pamphlet on Controversial or Contemporary Issues

            Write and publish sixty-six-page pamphlets or booklets that are about 4 inches wide and about 6 inches in length. These booklets fill up quickly with your articles. Don't forget to reduce the number of pages you write that first start out as double-spaced typed pages.

            You can also provide marketing research for corporations or information for advertising and public relations agencies, employment agencies, or college career centers in this format or mystery shopper news if updates aren't required more frequently than annually.

If you're printing up an 8 1/2 by 11 inch page, usually it takes up to twice as much writing to reduce the size in half when you print up single spaced content with a double space between paragraphs and allow for a 16 point type size font for each heading or larger fonts for chapter headings.

 

Make Small Booklets with Fresh Information

             When you print up small booklets, you'll need much less writing to fill up a whole little booklet. These small booklets are bought by school libraries to fill research folders on a variety of topics that are current issues in the news. If you are marketing to the general public through supermarket racks on impulse shelves near the checkout counter, usually near the checkout person, you'll want to supply each supermarket with your own racks the size of your tiny booklets.

             The subjects that sell best are topics that tell the reader how something affects or changes something else. For example, how different foods affect your moods, and subtitle the booklet how people can change their behavior or their lives by adjusting the foods to their moods or any other topic telling readers how to improve themselves with the specific information.

             Price your booklets anywhere from $1 to $2. Usually $1.19 in the US and $1.49 in Canada is fine, keeping the price plus tax adding up to an even amount. Find out what the tax would be on your booklets to one person at a checkout counter for the booklet. Then adjust the price so the reader can pay the tax and your price and have it add up to an easy to come up with amount, like $1.20 or $1.50. Calculate your expenses so you can arrive at a price that looks inviting.

             Keep your pages around 66. Use an even number of pages. Your cover would have a title and a subtitle explaining what the title can do for the reader, how changing the behavior can change the person's life. Print your company or publishing name and address on the inside cover in the center. 

            On the first page, label it "Contents" and list you six or seven chapters and the page numbers. At the bottom of the contents page, about two inches up from the bottom of the page have the authors name in small, but easily readable font, such as 10 point Times New Roman or italics.

             The left hand side of the contents page should have a disclaimer saying that your book is intended as a reference volume, not a medical manual so you won't be sued for giving medical advice without a license or credentials. Put in there that your booklet doesn't presume to give medical advice.  

             You really need this in there. Add a "consult your physician before beginning any therapeutic program," to protect yourself from being sued or accused of giving medical advice. You need this disclaimer on any booklet that gives information based on material provided by actual researchers and experts, even if you are using medical articles with simplified English or anything where people are told what to eat to change their health or behavior. 

             Always put this disclaimer or a similar one into a booklet you write and publish. This is especially true when you interview doctors or read their articles and report what they wrote, even with their written permission, which you always need to have. You don't need this disclaimer of your booklet is about how to knit costumes for animals or how to fix a leaky faucet or repair and antique furniture, but you need it for special diet, food, and nutrition booklets.

             Each chapter can run four to 12 pages in this tiny booklet with the chapter divided every few paragraphs into new headings so you break up your booklet in chunks. Try to balance the size of your chapters. Usually four-page chapters work best in this size booklet totaling about 6 or 7 chapters, and total amount of pages being about 66. 

Keep your pages an even number. Don't leave blank pages in this size booklet. Place a one or two-sentence description of the booklet centered about one inch down from the top of your glossy back cover. 

             Put it in a box if you like, and place or print your bar code below with the price on the back. You'll also have the price on the front cover, your logo in the upper left hand corner of the front cover, the title, subtitle, and any illustration, usually a photo in color of a person working with the items in the book or doing some action that sums up what the book says.

             Have the book cover put on with two staples in the spine that are not readily noticeable to the reader. Only the backs of the staples should be seen on the spine, and flat into the crease of the spine of the book so as not to catch on any object. You don't need an ISBN number for this kind of booklet, only a bar code so the scanning machine in the supermarket can scan it. Provide your own racks if ones there belong to other merchants and distributors. Have the price on the front and back cover in addition to the bar code so readers can see the price immediately.

             If you write on health topics, keep the English simple, writing at 5th grade level. Keep sentences short and paragraphs short, about two sentences per paragraph. Use Times New Roman 12 point type, nothing smaller, or older people won't want to look unless they have their reading glasses. So keep the font large enough for most people to see at most ages. 

             You can find distributors who specialize in small pamphlets and booklets. Print your own catalogue listing all your pamphlet/booklet titles. Place a catalogue copy on the Internet’s Web to reach people around the world. Specialize in supplying college and high school career counseling offices with booklets on each type of career in a group of related careers. Or focus on foods and health or psychology and behavior for self-help. 

             Inspirational, religious, New Age, nutritional, and holistic health booklets each have individual, customized, expanding markets associated with conferences, conventions, suppliers, vendors, publications, and members of the various groups with similar interests.

If you want people to pay for your booklets, give readers information that's not easy to find and is not usually found among the free literature available in health food stores, community centers, self-help magazines, or religious organizations. Also try specialty gift stores, home building centers, discount stores, libraries, business, professional, and trade associations, corporations, schools, and employee organizations.

  Supermarkets have special display racks with informational booklets and short romances. Some of these publishers are parts of larger publishing companies, such as the tabloids. Try gift shops, museums, libraries, bookstores, schools, churches, hotel lobby shops, sports stores such as golf and tennis shops at hotels and resorts, golf courses, and sports clubs.

  Keep trying the supermarkets and smaller convenience stores until you find a store that lets you put in your own display rack for your catalogue of booklets or pamphlets. Sometimes used bookstores will allow you to put in a display case or rack of your short romances or historical fiction. School supply stores may be interested in your pamphlets with biographies of historical characters or vocational biographies. 

            Writing on contemporary and controversial issues in the news supplies school libraries with information for student research. Pamphlets need a bar code and a price more than they need an ISBN, but you can get one in case you want your booklet to go to libraries and schools or be sold by online booksellers and distributed by distributors.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Gift Book Pamphlets into Podcast Feed Urls

 

Podcasting News: Health and Fitness Podcast Directory

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Sanoviv Alternative Health Care Medical Institute

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2Down (Weight Loss) Podcast News Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TwoDown

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Tracing Your Baltic, Scandinavian, Eastern European, & Middle Eastern Ancestry Online: Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Estonian, Latvian, Polish, Lithuanian, Greek, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Armenian, Hungarian, Eastern European & Middle Eastern Genealogy (All Faiths)

Publisher's price: $14.95
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 186
ISBN: 0-595-35773-3
Published: Jun-2005
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Smart card and database online genealogy for virtual travelers is the wave of the future. Are you online and ready for global population authentication? Here’s how to search family history for nations bordering the Baltic Sea, the Balkans countries, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. The nations listed in this guide (all faiths) include Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Assyria, Greece, Lebanon, Syria, and many other lands in the Middle East, the Balkans—Croatia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Eastern Europe—Hungary, and more.
 
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Are you online and ready for global smart card and database genealogy for virtual travelers? Here’s how to search family history for nations bordering the Baltic Sea, the Balkans countries, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.

The nations listed in this guide (all faiths) include Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Armenia, Assyria, Greece, Lebanon, Syria, and many other lands in the Middle East, the Balkans—Croatia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Eastern Europe—Hungary, and more.

Collecting details about people is moving toward smart card technology and its offspring. The new wave in genealogy is authentication technology. Authentication begins with new-wave technology used to gather population registers.

Compare the new technology to the old method of door-to-door census taking, tombstone tracings, and city directory publishing. No, genealogists are not using smart cards this year, but smart card technology is being used to compile population registers in Europe.

The future holds a new wave of technology used for authentication for banking transactions being applied to other areas. Currently this technology is used for collecting details for population registrars such as census taking.

The application for research is of interest to family historians, librarians, and governments. It’s already in use by private industry for electronic authentication.

Family history is now about intelligent connections, whether it’s a population registrar, census detail, or electronic identity for banking. Smart card genealogy began in 1998 in Finland with governments seeking to put census and population registers in an electronic form that would be available to researchers, and these applications are going global.

Books currently in print written by Anne Hart.

 

101+ Practical Ways to Raise Funds: A Step-by-Step Guide with Answers

Publisher's price: $23.95
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 406
ISBN: 0-595-48058-6
Published: Dec-2007
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Raise funds for your cause with practical media projects that easily can be turned into home-based businesses or projects for home schoolers, parents, teachers, students.
 
Book Description
 
Raise funds and/or promote your favorite cause. Develop original creativity enhancement products such as writing vocational biographies. Solve problems and publish measurable results. Design practical media projects that easily can be turned into home-based businesses or one-time projects.

Homeschoolers, parents, teachers, students, entrepreneurs, and workers interested in opening powerful, affordable-budget, trend-ready home-based publishing, writing, or video podcasting and video news release-production businesses and creative writing fundraising events will enjoy these unique applications to help you create your own board games, projects, businesses, publications, and events.

Sample business start-ups (or one-time project) categories include the following categories: description of business, income potential, best locale to operate the business, training required, general aptitude or experience, equipment needed, operating your business, target market, related opportunities, and additional information for resources.

Develop practical projects using the skills of video production, creative writing, book and pamphlet publishing, or newsletter design. These skills include adapting stories, novels, news events, or scripts and skits to numerous platforms, formats, and media types.

Inform others how to avoid pitfalls and blind spots that can derail careers early in the game. The campaigns are ideal for most promotional, business, or training situations.

 
 

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Interestingly, the best thing I learned from earning a graduate degree in creative writing is to keep it brief. I always aked myself these three questions that have been said many times before writing a book, article, or fiction--novel, script, play, or life story. Lecturing isn't communicating. Connecting is.
 
1.  What's the situation, event, or experience?
2.  What outcome/impact/result is it causing?
3.  What's your resolution? (Solve the problem or get measurable results in clearn and easy-to-understand steps the readers can follow.)
 
It really works as a formula for writing book proposals as well as a query letter and also for the book or follow-up. That's the basis of a good novel or nonfiction book. The details are in the where, how, why, and when.
 
 
 
 

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Ethno-Playography

Anne Hart’s Web Sites and Blogs
 

Home Page Web Site

http://annehart.tripod.com

Fiction

Tales for all Holidays - Blog

http://talesforholidays.blogspot.com/ 

Animation Scripts - Zyzyx, The Flying Yellow Labrador Retriever

http://animation-scripts.blogspot.com/

Short Stories & Writing Instructional Articles

http://anne-hart-reviews.blogspot.com/

How to Video Record Your Dog's Life Story

http://dogvideography.blogspot.com/

Publish Your Book - Resources

http://publishing-your-books.blogspot.com/

DNA

MtDNA - Interpreting Your DNA-Driven Genealogy Reports

http://dna-driven-genealogy.blogspot.com/ 

Book Reviews Blog: Books, Documentaries, and Software

Genealogy TV

http://genealogytv.blogspot.com/

Anne Hart's Books

http://anne-hart-books.blogspot.com/

Resources, Associations, Bibliographies

http://write-tools.blogspot.com/

Employment Personality Tests Decoded--Book Information

http://eptd.blogspot.com/

30+ Brain-Exercising Creativity Coach Businesses to Open: How to Use Writing, Music, Drama & Art

http://annehart.tripod.com/id33.html 

Novels and Dog or Cat-Related Fiction

http://annehart.tripod.com/id32.html

Articles by Anne Hart

http://annehart.tripod.com/id31.html

Reviews of Books, Software, and Documentary DVDs

http://annehart.tripod.com/id8.html 

How-to Books-Information and/or Articles

Action Verbs for Communicators |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id30.html

How to Launch a Genealogy TV Business Online |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id29.html

List of Published Paperback Books by Anne Hart |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id28.html

102 Ways to Apply Career Training in Family History/Genealogy |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id27.html

How to Use Victorian Etiquette to Start Engaging Conversations with Strangers |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id26.html

How to Start a Genealogy Web-Based Television Show or Specialty TV Station |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id25.html

How to Start Engaging Conversations |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id24.html

How to Publish in Womens Studies, Mens Studies, Policy Analysis, & Family History Research |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id23.html

Why We Never Give Up Our Need for a Perfect Mother |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id22.html

Hero Cats of WW II Article |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id21.html

Popular Books by Author |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id18.html

Novels, Nonfiction, & Articles By Anne Hart |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id20.html

Links to Browse Books & Cover Photos |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id19.html

My Biography |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id17.html

How-to Books--Information and/or Excerpts & Articles

How to Start Genealogy and Personal History Businesses  

http://annehart.tripod.com/id15.html

Brain-Exercising Assessments for Fiction & Biography Writers |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id14.html

Resources for Genealogists and Journalists to Learn More About Interpreting DNA-Driven Tests |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id13.html

Interpreting Your DNA-Driven Genealogy Reports |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id11.html

Genealogy

Hart Family Genealogy Page-Descendant of Deacon Stephen Hart |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id12.html

Techniques of Tracing Baltic, Balkan, Scandinavian, and Middle Eastern Genealogies  |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id9.html

Where to Browse the Paperback Books |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id10.html

Personal History/Documentarian Course |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id7.html

Anne Hart's Biography |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id16.html

Books Written by Anne Hart |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id5.html

Cat Heroes |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id4.html

Chickenization & Kittenization Essays |

 http://annehart.tripod.com/id3.html

Creating Family Newsletters & Writing a Genealogy Course Syllabus |

http://annehart.tripod.com/id2.html

Tinting White Hair with Herbs & Spices

http://annehart.tripod.com/id1.html

Blogs

1. Creativity Questionnaires

http://creativityquestionnaires.blogspot.com/

2. Genealogy TV How-to

http://genealogytv.blogspot.com/

3. Reality Check for Authors

http://rcfba.blogspot.com/ 

4. How-to Books Blog

http://how-to-books.blogspot.com/

5. Excerpts and Reviews

http://how-to-books.blogspot.com/2007/05/articles-book-excerpts-reviews-and.html 

Playwriting Blogs

Ethno-Plays

http://ethnoplays.blogspot.com/

Ethno-Playography - How to Write Ethnographic Plays

http://ethnoplayography.blogspot.com/

How to Write/Adapt Plays, Skits, & Monologues

http://ethnoplays.blogspot.com/

 Old Maids' Parties

http://oldsmaidsparties.blogspot.com/

Time Travel Novel, Story, & Poem - Silk Road Kids

http://silk-road-novels.blogspot.com/ 

Anne Hart's Books

http://how-to-books.blogspot.com/

 

My How-to Videos on Google

1.   So You Want to Be A Senior Citizen Social Center   Personal Historian Part 1:  

      http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8977988986231212121   

        Lecture overview on the 65 steps in becoming a personal and/or oral Historian as a hobby for us senior citizens. How to interview one another tactfully to record the turning points and significant life events to preserve for your time capsule, video, gift box, or multimedia DVD. Turn life story highlights into skits or monologues. Or use current events and social issues with life stories to record experiences and events with the goal of celebration of life. 

     An excellent hobby for our group of senior citizens in multimedia and for any age group to make family gifts and video newsletters for relatives, friends, and oral history library archives. Enjoy genealogy by video and multimedia through personal history videography, and preserve memories for your grand children and friends. Enjoy

2.     So You Want to Be A Personal Historian, Part 2: Genealogy, Personal History Journalism, and Interviewing Techniques/Strategies: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=- 3624666821543913400&hl=en

3.       Here's how to open your own DNA-Driven Genealogy Reporting Service or DNA-Driven Genealogy Business: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=- 1561842365245473460  

4.       Interpreting Your DNA-Driven Genealogy Reports

Here's How to Interpret Your DNA-Driven Genealogy, Ancestry, and Family History Reports 
for Beginners Interested in DNA Readings for Deep Historical Ancestry. Lecture video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3620130273703341877

5.       Searching Genealogy Records in the Former Ottoman Empire: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8001693217353518015

6.       Personal History Television: My Interview with WW2 Veteran: Feb 8, 1991: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-910785564431313455

       7.       Effective Public Speaking Strategies: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1697039416759995632

8.       Writing Success Stories and Corporate Case Histories: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3036096570720634679

 

9.       How to Launch a Genealogy TV Business Online: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7204325250643896172

 

10. Should You Publish Your Book Print-on-Demand, Mainstream, Small Press, Self, or Other Alternatives? (35-minutes)
 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3593114469202455272

 

11. UTUBE VIDEO:
 
 Should You Publish Your Book Print-on-Demand, Mainstream, Small Press, Self, or Other Alternatives? (9 minutes, 58 seconds)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCmULwWoS3Q 

 

 

Creative Writing Instructional Materials & Resources

Writing & Producing Documentaries
 

DNA-Driven Genealogy Journalism, Personal History, Life Story Genre, Novels, Plays, Platforms, Assessments, Videography-Documentary Production, Family Studies, Adapting Genres, Book Cover Illustration, Articles, & Reviews

 

 

 

Reality Check for Book Authors 

Your goal as a book author is to expand your platform (visible expertise). That’s one way of building additional audiences once you’ve written a book. Begin by writing a new book proposal emphasizing what is different about your platform (topic of expertise) and what is the fresh news angle regarding your next marketing strategy. Your objective is to convince publishers, editors, agents and your potential readers/viewers that the market for your next book is significantly larger than the audience for your previous book.

A book proposal and/or plan details credible, current facts showing how you will reach that expanded audience. Otherwise you’re headed for a downsizing destination. This happens all too frequently with freelancers that depend on sales statistics. Downsizing occurs when the next book you write commands increasingly smaller advances.

Compare your present advance to your previous book’s advance. Are your advances growing or shrinking? Publishers have to decide whether your platform expansion and the increase in your audience are worth investing in your book because you’re given a contract and advanced primarily based on whether your book poses the least financial risk to your publisher.

As a writer, you are also ‘hired’ when you pose the least financial risk to your publisher. That refers not only to your book’s potential, but whether your commitment is reliable. Will you have the book ready on time? And will you fulfill the details of the contract and provide the quality and quantity of writing the publisher wants that you outlined in your proposal?

For your next book, there are alternatives. You can publish with a print-on-demand publisher. You can publish with a smaller publisher who gives a smaller advance or no advance at all. Or you can self-publish and hire a distributor because book stores buy from specific books-in-print catalogues.

To make your next book proposal inviting, show with specific details outlined exactly how you intend to increase the sale of your book and why this will work. Publishers link the visibility of your expertise—your platform to markers pointing to logical reasons for higher sales. Publishing is not as subjective as often deemed. It’s all about whether you pose the least financial risk to the publisher as to whether or not your book is ‘hired.’

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Most Popular of Author's Books

Anne Hart is the author of 80+ published books currently in print and 11 more books out of print since the 1980s and1990s. Recent books now in print also include family history novels and numerous DNA-driven genealogy books. She's a member of the American Association of Journalists and Authors, and Mensa, and holds a graduate degree in English/Creative Writing emphasis.

See her book titled, 102 Ways to Apply Career Training in Family History/Genealogy: How to Find a Job, Internship, or Create Your Own Business. ISBN: 0595413161. 2006. ASJA Press, iUniverse, Inc. 1-800 Authors or http://www.iuniverse.com.

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Cheers to the Internal Locus

It has been a wonderful career inspiring people to do the best they can with what they have. I am now retired. Since June 1959 I have been a full-time independent (freelance) journalist, creativity enhancement motivator, book author, personal historian, videographer/documentarian, illustrator/book cover artist, observer, scriptwriter, playwright, and photographer, and after 1972, a part-time university-level educator in creative writing. My paperback books are available.  Inspiring explores creative writing, music, and art as healing tools. Motivating involves creative listening.

Yes, there are many alternative uses of a Master of Arts degree in English/creative writing emphasis (writing fiction, plays, and poetry) and  minors in book illustration, psychology, and anthropology. I've made full use of nearly every course I took in college and/or graduate school. What college courses taught me in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s have remained ageless and non-dated, since I've survived all these years on my daily reading, writing, and 7th-grade course in touch typing. My work life consisted of listening.

I am now a Full-Time Senior Volunteer and Loving It. My books and articles are reality checks. They reveal practical applications of details/facts, routes, and universals that work well and also inspire, motivate, and applaud your creativity. My purpose is not to dish out directives but to give information. My goal is not to tell you what to do, but how to think in practical and in universal ways with additional depth and breadth.

When you face that first blank page alone, that list of alternatives and possibilities in your notebook may lead to new applications of familiar details. Listen for the concrete nuances, and then expand the checkable, updatable facts to the abstract universal with which everyone may identify.

I am white haired, based at home with little mobility, proud to be old, optimistic, a non-driver, and am officially retired. Presently I am spending my time with my friendly dog, a Labrador retriever, volunteering, and painting mandalas in acrylics for my daily meditation on peace and joy. Most pleasant is the joy of a happy, upbeat work-place life from 1959 to 2007, and I am proud and wonderfully happy not to be working any longer.

Most memorable is the pursuit of and the autodidactic study of the psychology of happiness. It is rewarding to give the utmost praise and thankfulness to those who have worked side by side with me totally dedicated to enhancing the creativity in anyone through healing music, beautiful artwork. And for the past 44 work years, and more than 80 books, encouraging, motivating, and inspiring others to do their best with creative writing. The focus emphasized writing about family history/family studies, genealogy, nutrition journalism, and DNA-driven genealogy reading resources.

This is my time for play. And I'm spending my golden years being kind to people I meet and devoting my time to sharing happy moments with others. This is best done by helping where I'm needed through lending a hand and a smile. Thank you, Creative Force in all the universes for allowing me the joy of being 'spent' and at peace with the beauty and optimism in all creation, art, and music as a tool of healing. I thank all of you that have read or will read my books and articles or plays, scripts, and poems. Enjoy, and share the optimism in all universes as a healing tool.

Anne Hart

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