This in from Sunday's USA Weekend: "Girl-powered inspiration," an article on a new series of fiction books aimed at the tween market, gleaned from real-life success stories.
The first in the series of four novels includes a mentor inspired by USA Weekend's own president and CEO, Marcia Bullard. The author and publisher of the books, Ellen Langas Campbell, noted that this first look at success on the girl-trail is to "show girls that a journalism career is really attainable."
What a marvelous way to reach out to a niche market! Of course, as a writer, I constantly encourage (nudge? insist? try to drag kicking and screaming?) folks to write books about their lives, their work experiences, their family history--whatever. A book is a solid way--and I mean that literally--to get noticed.
Books are also keepers. When people read a good book, they put it on a bookshelf and often keep it forever, perhaps passing it around to a few trusted friends, but always eager to get it back and touch the cover, feel the binding, flip through the pages, just to be reminded of how it made them feel the first time they read it.
Today, the ability to write a book is so much simpler and faster. In addition, if you don't have a 200-300 page novel or inspirational tome in you, you can write a short e-book, 10-15 pages of targeted, useful informatin on what you do, how you do it, and how others can succeed at it, also. This e-book could b offered for free, as Seth Godin offers many of his books for free, as a download off of your website, or, you can sell it for a nominal fee--say $4.95 or $5.00, on your website and at Amazon.com. It could be a way to generate a second income.
When you realize that women buy and read far more books than men, you have a win-win situation on your hands.
What's not to like about that?
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