7 Ways to Transform Your 1 Book Into a Wildly Successful Series

"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it
becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is
that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and
fling him out to the public." ─Winston Churchill

Are you planning to write just one book? Wait! Before you decide, at
least let me show you how easy it is to make your single book into a
series of books. By the way, publishers love book series and readers
become fanatical over a serial of books.

Begin to change your thinking. Don't look at your book as a one time thing
or a one title event. Begin to look at it as the beginning of your successful
author journey. If you are looking for an easier journey, more rewards and
more profits with a series of books, follow the tips below:

1. Slash your huge book into separate books. The easiest way to do this is to
separate your book into chunks, chapters, sections and parts. Writing this
way will allow you to divide and conquer. You can easily take the chunks
or sections and divide them into several books. Your readers will love that
you made your book such an easy read and buy each one of them.

2. Put your overflow information into a second book. Gather all the overflow
research material. You know all the extra information discovered that
wouldn't fit into your first book. Put it in order and develop it into a
separate book. For example, if one of your chapters is becoming bloated
with information overload consider marking it for book two. There's no
better time to start collecting information for book two than when you are
organizing book one.

3. Poll your readers for a key point they want to know more about. Expound
on a point your readers show interest in knowing more about. If you don't
know already, try to discover their problems and write the solutions in the
next book. Handle this well and your sequel may sell better than the
previous book.

4. Select a sub-topic to do further research. Do more research on one of
your book's sub-topics. Take a sub-topic that you only touched on in the
first book and cover if fully in the sequel. Your readers will love the
additional information and anticipate buying the next volume.

5. Write a companion book for the original book. You can excerpt sections
from your first book, insert groups of checklists, discussion or reflection
questions and voila you have a study guide or workbook.

6. Develop a meditation or journal book. Gather quotes related to your
book's topic and pair them with excerpts from your original book to put in
a meditation book or devotional. Or create a journal with quotes from
your original books in the corner of each lined page of the journal. You
can number them according to weeks, days or lessons. For example, 52
weeks of inspiring thoughts or 365 days of inspirational thoughts from
your book's topic.

7. Repurpose your material for a different audience. Plan another edition of
your book for a different audience than the original book. Remember the
Chicken Soup for Teen-Agers, Prisoners, Mothers and so on sold better
than the original Chicken Soup for the Soul. The original book was for a
more general audience. Find out how you can target your audience even
more and you may discover a better selling market within a general
market.

Earma Brown, 24 Book Authorpreneur, Publisher, Creator of Book Success Academy,

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