Guest Expert:

Susan Page, bestselling author and leading consultant to other writers. (About Susan)

The Program:

Have you wondered how your colleagues get such big advances for books? And how you can, too? Susan will share common industry wisdom that doesn't work and the precise, easy-to-follow strategies that actually get results. Her secrets are tailored to address today's chaotic publishing industry.

In this teleseminar, you will learn:

• How to avoid the three huge mistakes most beginning authors make
• Seven minimum requirements for a six-figure advance
• Susan's formula for non-fiction proposals that leap ahead of the pack
• Exactly how to find the right agent for you -- if you need one
• Three strategies you must use in promoting your book

Additional resources for this seminar:

• Susan's Bonus Handout

About our guest expert:

Past president of NSA/NC, relationship coach Susan Page has been writing and conducting workshops for both singles and couples full time since 1980. She is the author of three bestselling relationship books, plus a guide to getting published:

• If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single?
• Eight Essential Traits of Couples Who Thrive
• How One of You Can Bring the Two of You Together
• The Shortest Distance Between You and a Published Book

Susan's fifth book, about Spiritual Partnership, will be published by Random House in February 2001.

All these books have received widespread critical acclaim. They have been translated into seventeen foreign languages and are being read in more than twenty-five foreign countries. If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? was the number one bestseller in Russia in 1995.

"The Shortest Distance Between You and a Published Book is the most thorough, accurate, user-friendly, well-organized, and inspiring guide for writers on the market today. Period." -- Richard Carlson, author, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

Excerpts of Susan's works have appeared or been reviewed in People, USA Today, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Self, New Woman, McCall's, Woman, Marriage, and Lotus Magazines.

A veteran of national television and radio, Susan has appeared on Good Morning America, Oprah, Donahue, Geraldo, Leeza, Montel Williams, Sonya Live, The David Essel Show, The Jim Bohannon Show, CNN's News Night Update, the Diane Rehm Show, and National Public Radio. In addition, she has appeared on hundreds of local radio and TV shows across the country.

Before turning to relationship writing and workshops full time in 1980, Susan served as the Director of Women's Programs at the University of California in Berkeley and as the Executive Director of a Child Abuse Prevention Agency where she helped to found a shelter for battered women. She began her career as a Protestant campus minister at Washington University in St. Louis and Columbia University in New York, after receiving a B.A. from Oberlin College and a Master of Divinity degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary.

http://www.susanpage.com/