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Learning how to write a book is easy. Learning how to write a book that doesn't suck and can actually make you money - and set you up for a full-time writing career is harder.

But it's nowhere near impossible. And it's far more doable than you can imagine. The trouble is, most books offering tips on how to write a book fail to address two key considersations: 1) Most self-published nonfiction books suck. 2) It's almost impossible to make a living from one self-published nonfiction book.

There are nearly 50,000 screenplays registered with the Writer’s Guild every year. And 99 percent of them suck. But they don’t have to. That’s why I decided to write this book. So before you head out to another hundred-dollar screenwriting conference to learn how to write a screenplay or buy another paint-by-the-numbers 3-act script formula give my book a try. I can’t guarantee you’ll sell your script.

Want to sell a screenplay, but figure there’s no chance it’ll ever happen? I mean, you don’t know a soul in Hollywood, right? You don’t have James Cameron on your speed dial. Christopher Nolan isn’t in your yoga class. Quentin Tarantino doesn’t shop at the same Whole Foods that you do. I mean, who’s going to take a chance on you? There’s no way you could ever sell a screenplay. Right? Well…

Want to know how to write a script that people will remember, and can catch the attention of producers and other above-the-line talent? (Don't worry about agents; they don't want to talk to you). Nail your dialogue. Really. Now I know you've heard all the maxims: Film is a Visual Medium; You Can Either Write Dialogue or You Can't. And they both sound very logical. And esteemed writers, such as David Mamet, have been preaching them for years. But, in my not so humble opinion, they're both total bullcrap.

Learning how to write a movie script is more than just figuring out the margins and hitting a few plot points along the way....

Kindle publishing doesn't have to mean $50 royalty checks and hours spent updating countless Facebook pages all so that a couple hundred people may or may not grab a free copy of your book. Kindle publishing can actually be the most magical thing of all to writers: the chance to have a lucrative self publishing career doing the thing they love most: writing words down. We couldn't have said any of this 10 years ago.

Feel like your book marketing efforts need a bit of a (social media) shot-in-the-arm? Tried marketing your books on Twitter with little success? Looking for a Twitter marketing blueprint that gives you a step-by-step roadmap for when, what, and how to use Twitter? And unlike most social media books - which are about as up-to-date as a TV Guide from the 80s - these books are updated with the latest, newest, ground-breaking social media strategies that ACTUALLY work! I know. Because I did a lot of stuff that didn't work...until I found something that did work.

Here we go over the core mechanics of how to make money selling books on Pinterest. (Easier than you think - and far more effective than other social platforms.)

Wanna learn how to publish a book that doesn't suck...and will actually make you some moolah? Interested in finding out how to turn your self publishing efforts into reliable sources of kick-ass income? Curious to figure out how get published, get noticed - and get paid - and eventually self publish your way to an actual writing career? (Not just something that helps give you a car payment.) Then...my dear writer...you have come to the right place. For I was once like you.

Tried a bunch of writing exercises and creativity hacks to defeat writer's block...but to no avail? Well, struggle with writer's block no more! Because in this book author Michael Rogan - himself a sufferer of a six-year bout of writer's block - shares his simple, fun strategies for eliminating writer's block...for good.