Publishing
Book and Course Creation
Books and courses are the best business cards for your business, with over 650 million books sold, and a $6 billion online course industry in the US in 2020.
Fern has published ten award-winning books, including the renowned Publishing Game series, and seven popular online courses; worked as as book publicist and literary agent; and worked with hundreds of authors and CEOs to help them publish their books. Fern is a popular keynote speaker at writing, publishing, and book publicity conferences worldwide.
Book Publishing Program
In three months of one-hour weekly Zoom meetings, learn:
- How to produce a successful self-published book
- How to assemble all the details -- ISBN, BISAC, CIP, editing, interior and cover design, Ingram and Amazon KDP, trade reviews, & more OR
- How to pull together a successful proposal for a literary agent and traditional publisher
- How to write a compelling query letter
- How to craft a book proposal that sells
- Where to find literary agents, and how to evaluate them
- How to successfully publicize your book
See also the parallel three-month book publicity program here.
Interested in having someone else do the publishing for you? Inquire for details.
$9,500 / 3 Months
Sign UpCourse Creation Program
In three months of weekly one-hour Zoom meetings, learn:
- All about online course creation
- How to use online courses to advance your business goals
- How to zero in on your ideal audience
- How to use your expertise to craft the perfect product
- How to construct a course that your target audience will purchase
- How to craft a course that students will complete
- How to compose a course that students will enjoy
- How to calculate the right price point
- What your options are for course delivery
- How to launch your course successfully
(If you sell just 50 courses or 300 books, you've paid for the cost of the consulting - and Fern's course creators and authors sell many more.)
$5,400/3 Months
Sign UpHourly Consulting
In just one hour of consulting, you can learn:
- How to align your book or course creation with your business goals
- The tradeoffs between traditional and self-publishing, and which makes more sense for your book and business goals
- How to make your book more marketable from the very beginning
- How to successfully submit your book for trade reviews
- The broad strokes of how to conceive and execute a successful online course
- How to successfully publicize your first book or course, even when you don't have a mailing list
Book Writing and Publishing Accountability Circle. $500/month. Next cohort starts in November; inquire for details.
$300/Hour
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Let's TalkWhat Our Clients Say
"I couldn't believe when I wrote up my notes from your talk that you packed in so much valuable information—with fascinating examples, no less!"
"After Fern Reiss’s six-month book publicity campaign, my publisher had to print 3 times as many hardcover books as they had planned, and we are now planning a paperback edition, as well. Fern’s publishing expertise made a huge difference in the success of the book. I wish that I had hired her before signing my publishing contract—and I wish that I could retain her forever."
"I had an idea for a book and Fern, in a single hour, gave me a customized plan to develop the idea and sell it both through bookstores and also directly to customers through a variety of channels. With Fern's help I went from an idea to books in all major bookstores in 14 months -- and at a profit."
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