Carol C. Denbow

Book Reviews for " Are You Ready to Be Your Own Boss?"

"Carol Denbow has written the "must-read" book for anyone thinking of going into business for themselves. Packed with real-life stories and backed up with the latest statistics, Carol tells it like it is in an honest, straight forward manner: the good, the bad, and the ugly. This truly is "the" book to read BEFORE you decide to become your own boss."

-Jim Allen, "The Big Idea Coach"

"Are You Ready to Be Your Own Boss? is truly a gem. Carol Denbow brings out many of the pitfalls and rewards to owning your own business and taking responsibility for your destiny. Difficult? Absolutely. Worth the effort? That's up to you. Some hidden gems I found in her writing…

• Start with a business plan!
• Make a chart to remind yourself daily of your business plan
• Survival factors of new businesses include the owner's age, higher education, and previous experience in their field, with most business owners between 35 and 64, having 10 to 19 years of work experience prior to self employment
• To help you choose a business, make a list of your hobbies and interests, and then list all the possible ways you can make money with those hobbies/interests
• Make sure you are overstaffed and over prepared – your first impression will be a long lasting one
• Do at least a business plan and get legal council before signing any contracts or leases
• There will be "impossible-to-deal-with" customers – when they leave you, be glad and let them go
• Most businesses will not show any profit for at least the first year, and the average time is around three years
• Don't be in a hurry

This book is filled with valuable personal insight, experience, and advice. Pick up a copy, read it, highlight it (I did mine!), make notes, and tell your friends. They will want their own copy"

-Michael Monji

"All of us have the dream and latent desire to have our own business someday. Will your dream be just another fantasy or will it become a reality? Carol Denbow provides you a touchstone for your dream in "Are You Ready to Be Your Own Boss?" She tells you everything that you need to know before making the crucial decision on whether to start you own business."

-Gang Chen, Outskirts Press

Book Reviews for A Book Inside, How to Write, Publish, and Sell Your Story

"There's nothing more difficult and nothing more rewarding than writing a book. In this fact-packed tutorial, Carol Denbow takes writers by the hand and leads them on that long journey to print. Any writer setting out on that journey would do well to take A Book Inside along with their laptop.”

—Clifford Thurlow,

author of Making Short Films: The complete Guide from Script to Screen.

“ A Book Inside should be every writer’s first stop in the publishing process. This helpful book guides writers through the book publishing business from idea to publication to marketing and beyond!”

—Rochelle Melander,

Author, Writing Coach, and founder of Dream Keepers , a writing program for teens.

 “Carol Denbow guides her readers through the waters of writing and publishing with practical advice and encouragement. Through its valuable information and well organized format, A Book Inside is the perfect guide for any writer launching their career!”

—Heather Hummel,
Coauthor of Gracefully: Looking and Being Your Best at Any Age (McGraw Hill, 2008)“Imagine your enhanced credibility for just writing what you know.
Sharing your life experience will help, encourage and inspire others
while providing you with an additional profit center.
Carol Denbow’s book is your advisor, guide and plan.”--Dan Poynter,
The Self-Publishing Manual , http://ParaPub.com  If you're even thinking about writing a book, you need to read this book, first. It's well-organized, informative, easy-to-follow and includes handy end-of-chapter checklists to keep you on track. --Patricia Fry,
author of 28 books--eleven of them on publishing. www.matilijapress.com

“What a great book! A Book Inside offers important insight into the inner workings of book writing and how to get it out there. This book has everything a writer needs to know about writing a book, sending it to publishers and agents, and information on how to self-publish and what to expect. This is a great resource for anyone who needs some guidance on the writing world!”

-Tamara Hanson, author of Unleash Your Writing Muse

The Writing Muse

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tamara.hanson@shaw.ca

“From creating your writing environment to twenty-five unique ways to sell your book, A Book Inside How to Write, Publish, and Sell Your Story has it all for the writer who has questions.

Carol uses an easy-to-understand checklist at the end of each chapter to reinforce her step-by-step instruction on how to write, publish, and promote a book. Solid information about determining target market, picking the best title for a book, knowing what’s hot on the market, arranging book components, establishing proper book length, formatting for interior layout and cover design, copyrighting, and obtaining the ISBN. Her material on creating eBooks and audio books bring the author up to speed on newer digital technologies.

As a freelance writer and editor, I must say thank you, Carol, for reminding authors that they need to have their book professionally edited no matter what publishing route they take to market, and for including a list of problematic words, of which most amateur writers aren’t even aware they are misusing.

With excellent tips on the different types of publishing, the associated costs, and what to expect in each of these processes, it’s the book that answers most of the questions my clients ask me on a regular basis. Now, I can simply suggest they read Carol Denbow’s book!

Including a list of helpful resources, A Book Inside offers help with online book promotion as well as print media and trade shows. From the inside out, this book is just what the writer needs to become a successful published author.”

Yvonne Perry,

Owner of Writers in the Sky Creative Writing Services, author of Right to Recover, Winning the Political and Religious Wars Over Stem Cell Research in America .

How to Organize a Virtual Book Tour E-book

Since I started my virtual book touring agency, I’ve had lots of friends ask me to put their tours together for them. Well I do have a problem charging friends my full fee for book tour organizing, yet it’s hard to say no and stick to my guns, my time is so limited. So I decided to make touring available to everyone for as reasonable a price at possible.

How to Organize a Virtual Book Tour E-book is now finished and available! The really good news is that now you don’t have to spend hundreds on a virtual book tour!! I’ve decided to publish the book as an e-book to save money for me and YOU! Is $6.95 a fair price?

The e-book includes built-in links to all the resources you’ll need as well as check lists for each part of your journey. How to Organize a Virtual Book Tour is easy to comprehend and the only resource you’ll need for the success of your own virtual book tour!

Virtual book touring is the newest proven method to sell books and it is HOT! I hope you get on board before this gets too popular and you can no longer find tour stops! Right now, if you buy the e-book and organize your tour, I’ll give you a tour stop on A Book Inside Blog (PR “almost” 4)!

At a price of $6.95, I just can’t afford paid advertizing for this publication, so the book is exclusively available through my Websites. More on the book can be seen in my Bookstore at http://www.authorsbox.com/apps/webstore/products/show/329935

One of my favorite's...

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
-John Wooden

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author, Carol Denbow

mailing address:  P.O. Box 1506

                       North Bend, OR 97459

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