Seminar
“Welcome, everyone!” his teeth sparkled and his eyes glimmered behind his glasses. “We are SO glad to have you all. Please take a seat and let’s get started.”
“Let’s catch up during the break,” I suggested to the stranger next to me. I was glad to have been relieved of the small talk. I can’t even remember what I had been saying to this stranger. Maybe I was telling her about my writing career. I hope I didn’t offer to read any of her stories and give her feedback. Oh god, did I offer that to her? I glanced nervously to my right at her without turning my head. She was focused on the speaker and not on me. Whew.
“Welcome to the Novels of Change Seminar,” he said with an even bigger smile this time. It felt like he was speaking directly to me. I felt welcomed. I felt special.
The speaker was Charles Eubrich, a well-known novelist who had recently kicked off a master class, created this live seminar, and–most surprisingly– had churned out a few new best selling authors.
I mentioned my writing career earlier. I feel like I should specify. I’ve been writing for a long time so I do consider it a career. I even published my first novel this year. I had told the woman next to me about that. I hadn’t had enough time to tell her that I self-published the novel. Nothing written with that. I’ve even sold a few hundred copies. Well, a few more than one hundred.
Anyway, I was ready to take the next step. I knew that following Charles Eubrich’s method, I would be a best-selling author.
The seminar was full of engaging topics and inspirational case studies presented by the best-selling authors that Eubrich had created. As we ended the second of three sessions, we broke for snacks, networking, and a chance to process our step-writer fees.
What is a step-writer fee, you ask? Well, this is new and this is where Eubrich’s genius shines. This is the cornerstone of the method he created! This is how he has turned normal, everyday people into best sellers!
The step-writer process includes, well, the steps to becoming a successful writer:
Know your audience - who are you targeting? What do they want to read?
Know your characters - what makes your characters believable and relatable?
Know your distribution channel - this is all about knowing where to find your audience
Know the authors you support and who support you - this is the revolutionary part of the program. This is how best-sellers are made. This is where the fees come in.
To be part of the program, I will officially become a supporter of my sponsor. My sponsor’s name is Bill Bradley. I met him on Facebook; he is a good friend of a friend of a friend from high school. He has sold thousands of copies of his books.
As one of his supporters, I simply pay my step-writer fee which goes to Eubrich’s model to handle admin costs of adding me to the database and getting my name and my books into thousands of distribution databases. The other thing I’ll do is buy Bill’s books. I buy a copy of each of his books, each month. That simple! In return, I’m added to his supporter team where his readers will receive recommendations to read my books!
Once I help Bill sell enough books and once I start to recruit my own supporters, well, that’s when the magic begins! Then my supporters will start to buy my books and boost my sales, driving me up to best-seller status. All that helps Bill as well as the writers he supports too!
I swiped my credit card to pay my $79.95 monthly step-writer membership and I ordered a copy of each of Bill’s novels. Soon, I bet Bill will be one of the successful best-selling authors up on stage. And then shortly thereafter, I’ll be featured!
