The 5 Principles of Writing a Self-Help Book

Award-winning Practical Inspiration author Ginny Carter (How to Write a Self-Help Book, Your Business, Your Book) shares her top tips for writing a best-selling self-help book.
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About Ginny...

Ginny Carter is a bestselling author and ghostwriter with a business background. 
Communication has always been her thing – she worked in marketing for 21 years, including three years as a freelance social media manager. This background gave her a strategic approach to writing: her own books and those of her clients are aligned to their work, and help them to achieve success.
She has ghostwritten over 25 books on a wide variety of topics, from HR to phobias to life stories, including some accepted by publishers such as Penguin Random House and Hachette, and which have become bestsellers.
A judge at the Business Book Awards, she is regularly interviewed on podcasts to share her insights on book writing. 
Ginny is the author of Your Business, Your Book: How to plan, write and promote the book that puts you in the spotlight (2019), which won the Business Book Award Sales & Marketing Book of the Year 2020, and How to Write a Self-Help Book: Successful techniques for writing a guide that transforms your readers’ lives (2023). 
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