Need help getting your message across, getting your words on the page or getting your sentences and paragraphs to flow together in a way readers will understand and enjoy? No worries. If you have an idea that needs to be communicated in words, sentences and paragraphs, CopyWright Communications can help you craft a written product that will meet your needs – and the needs of your clients, editors, agent, or publishers.

Just as a shipwright builds a ship or a playwright scripts a play, CopyWright Communications creates written products that communicate messages to those who read them. To accomplish this, Nina provides the writing and editing services below to clients, editors and publishers.

Teleseminars Offered by Nina Amir

Writing for Publication

“Writing for Publication” gets you on your way to receiving that first by-line. If you’ve dreamt of seeing your writing in print, here’s a chance to learn the ropes of freelance writing and to learn the tools and skills to be a successful journalist. Learn how to write for magazines and newspaper and to get your work accepted by editors. In addition, use these skills to post your work on line and help you build a platform big enough to get a book published. This course covers query letters, book proposals, working with editors, freelance contracts, finding markets, and much more.
(This teleseminar is offered over five consecutive weeks for one hour each week. It includes assignments and some feedback on and editing of participants' writing.)

How to Build an Expert Platform
One Article at a Time

This course is a “must” for any nonfiction writer with dreams of having a book published by a traditional publishing house. Today’s nonfiction writers must have an expert platform from which they can promote, market and sell their books, and they need to have this before a publisher will even consider offering them a publishing contract. Learn how to use free articles posted on the Internet and articles offered or sold to print publications as the cornerstones to your expert platform – and as your ticket to becoming a published book author.

Why Every Author Needs a Platform and How to Build One on the Internet

Every author needs a platform. If you don't know what a platform is, you need this teleseminar. Learn what a platform is, why you need one and how to begin building one by utilizing your writing skills to position yourself as an expert on the Internet. Writing and posting articles that are picked up by e-zines provides a great way to achieve expert status and to conduct your own low-cost publicity or PR campaign in a highly-effective manner. Doing this on a consistent basis drives traffic to your web site and results in the other elements of a strong platform: print, television, and radio interviews. This class will discuss article formats, 8 tips on where to post articles on the Internet for the most exposure and how to position yourself as an expert. If you think a great idea and good writing is enough to make your self-published book a best seller or to make an agent or a publisher send you a contract, discover the truth about what it takes to be a successful author.

For upcoming teleseminar dates and times, please check the calendar or e-mail for more information. If you would like to have Nina teach these teleseminars in person as classes or workshops for your group or organization, please contact her at cpywrtcom@aol.com  or call 408-353-1943. She also teaches classes and workshops on how to write nonfiction query letters and book proposals.

CopyWright Communications Services 

• Feature Articles – both researching and writing articles for editors of publications or for individual clients or editing client's articles.
  Fees: writing or editing: $75 per hour or 75 cents per word

• Biographies  – for authors, business people, celebrities, companies, etc. – writing or editing.
  Fees:  writing: $100-150 (up to two pages; $50 per page for each additional page ); editing: $75 per hour

• Booklets  – ghostwriting as told to or without credit or editing client's manuscripts.
  Fees:  writing or editing: $75 per hour

• Nonfiction Book Manuscripts – ghost writing as told to or without credit and editing clients' manuscripts, including line editing, sentence polishing, content editing, ghost writing, and developmental editing.
  Fees:  editing: $75 per hour; ghostwriting: on a per project basis beginning at $15,000; consulting: $100 per hour

• Query Letters – writing from scratch or editing of client's drafts for article submission to publications or for manuscript submission to publishers
  Fees: writing: $100 per hour; editing: $100 per hour; consulting: $75 per hour

• Book Proposals –writing, editing and/or consulting (non-fiction only)
  Fees:  writing: $100 per hour; editing: $100 per hour; consulting: $75 per hour

• Press Releases – writing or editing client's work
  Fees: $100 per hour; editing: $ 75 per hour

Need a Writing Coach?

If you need help giving birth to that book or article idea that has taken seed within you, I am happy to serve as your writing midwife by providing:

• ultrasounds of your gestating project so you have a clear picture of what your project will look like,
• the right writer's exercises and nutrients,
• a healthy writing program including a schedule and due date,
• a coach to remind you to breath and relax as your written creation takes form, grows and enters the world.

If you would like support or advice during the book or article-writing process, I will gladly serve as your writing coach:

• coming up with a game plan and strategy,
• training you in how to get fit and meet your goals,
• mapping out your writing fitness program,
• helping you outline your game plan,
• pushing you over any writer's blocks you encounter,
• ensuring that you make it to the finish line.

I can't make you sit down and write, but if you have the desire to actually start and complete a writing project, I can help you accomplish this goal through weekly phone consultations, check ins, brainstorming sessions, consultations, and exercises.

The fee for coaching:  $350 per month

(This fee includes only a small amount of editing. If you would like me to edit your complete work on a continual basis during the coaching period, my editing fee will be negotiated at a discounted price based on how many pages you agree to turn in per month.)

Using the Internet to Build Your PLATFORM One Article at a Time

Today, most book publishers require that nonfiction writers take on most of the promotional and marketing duties necessary to sell their books. However, to accomplish this job, nonfiction writers have to begin promoting and marketing their books long before they hold the bound tome in their hands. They have to begin building what the industry calls a “platform,” a base of potential readers that know them as an expert in their field or on their subject from their speaking, writing and presence on the radio, television and Internet. (Actually, fiction writers need a platform as well.)

Expert platforms consist of:

• numerous appearances on radio and Internet talk shows and television talk and news shows
• frequent quest blogs
• a well-know presence in on-line forums and social networks
• popular videos or pod casts
• frequent interviews on other peoples’ pod casts
• your own Internet, radio or television show
• a multitude of published articles or books in both print and Internet publications
• an extremely-large mailing list
• frequent talks and presentations given to small, medium and large groups

For nonfiction and fiction writers alike, writing loads of articles for specialty and mass-market magazines and newspapers and for e-zines provides an infinitely-easier method of platform building than any of the others. While publishing articles in traditional print publications is advisable and encouraged, and magazines and newspapers carry a lot of clout, when it comes to platform building, the easiest way to start building your platform involves writing and publishing articles for on-line publications. As these articles are published, you will begin to achieve expert status. You will find yourself also asked to speak for organizations and at events, to be interviewed by podcasters, and to appear on radio and television shows. As a result, you will end up with a platform large enough to please any publisher large or small. Add to that a great book idea and some great writing skills, and you’ll soon have a published book. (If you’re a self-published author, your platform will help you get readers buying your book.)

Start building your platform today by writing articles and offering them to e-zine directories on line! Purchase this e-book, Using the Internet to Build Your PLATFORM One Article at a Time, to find out how!

Using the Internet to Build Your PLATFORM One Article at a Time Cost: $14.99

Value of Information: Priceless! (Especially if you want to get that book published...and make it into a best seller.)

Contact

For copywriting services, contact Nina Amir at cpywrtcom@aol.com.