Are You READY TO Become A Published Author & FINALLY GET YOUR BOOK OUT?
Welcome To My Bespoke Author’s Mentorship Program.
You Have A Book In You - Let’s Get It Out. No Previous Writing Experience Is Required To Become An Author.
Becoming An Author - It’s Easier and Quicker Than You Think With a Mentor
This Is a Bespoke 12-week New Author Program - Idea To Manuscript Training.
It will be my intention as your mentor to make sure at the end of those 12 weeks your book manuscript is written.
This mentoring is with me and me only. I have over three decades of writing under my belt including 25 of my own books. This is very personal and one-on-one mentoring over video call and screen sharing.
Includes;
Getting Started: laying the foundation for you and your writing. This will give you a bypass route and help you avoid all the common problems that new writers face.
This will include …
Scheduling that works for you
Creating the perfect outline
How to use life stories to write your book
And much more
Starting To Write: this is a critical moment. Those first pages do set the tone and pace for your book. together we will spend time getting it right so you are set up for the rest of your book.
The first page - how to get those critical hooks and momentum from the very go.
Creating attachments from chapter to chapter so you keep them hooked and in your book.
How to become a fearless editor
And much more
Scheduling Your Writing:
When to write and how to steal that time
The key to writing 2-3,000 words daily
How to engage your reader from the start
How to use my blueprint to get your book complete
And more
The Big Finish
Connecting the start and the middle to the big ending
Keeping your reader wondering what’s coming next
How to polish your manuscript to get it sign-up-ready for the agents and publishers
And much more
Our intention as mentor and student is by the end of your 12 weeks is to make sure you have a completed manuscript ready to send off to publishers and agents.
And we will go over…
THE AUTHOR’S SYSTEM: Are you ready to hold the book you wrote in your hand? My simple system guarantees to guide you safely to get your book out onto paper
THE WRITING RITUAL: These simple and hugely effective rituals will turn you into an author. This will get that book idea out of your head and onto paper.
THE PROVEN WAY TO WRITE: 21-books later my way is proven. No risk - 100% proven. You will see your book finished and in print.
THE BIG STORES: You will see your book in the world’s biggest book shop - amazon bookstores and all good bookstores.
THE PUBLISHER: I promise to have your book published by my very own publishing house. This will remove the endless chase for agents and publishers.
YOU THE AUTHOR: I promise at the end of your training you will become a published author and have your first book in print.
I am Author and Mentor, Alan Forrest Smith.
My writer’s and Author’s mentor program is designed around YOU. The way you work, the way you want to work, the speed you work and your vision for your book.
First, let me share this with you.
I have written and published 24 of my own books. My most recent book was written in just two weeks using a little-known writing technique I’ve only just discovered.
My first 1000-page eBook was published in 1999. My first printed paperback was published in 2012. I currently have three more books in the writing and editing process. From idea to print to publishing to selling, from marketing to using an agent. I’ve learned a ton of stuff during those years and of course, selling thousands upon thousands of books.
AGENTS: I learned you can spend forever trying to find an agent. Most are lazy and just not interested.
PUBLISH NOW: I learned you can publish your book today using amazon and many other self-publishing websites.
SELL YOUR BOOK WITHOUT A WEBSITE: I learned to forget spending forever time trying to get traffic to your new website to buy a book - just focus on selling through Amazon.
SELF-PUBLISHING: I learned you can become your own publisher.
THE WRITING PROCESS: learned multiple ways to write a book.
YOU THE NEW AUTHOR: I learned to become a new author didn’t mean I had to have been a writer all of my life.
HOW TO WRITE: I learned writing a book takes time but you have to steal back time to write that book.
IDEA TO BOOK: I could actually take an idea from my head, write it down and then create a book from that.
My big lesson was that anyone can become a published author despite having no previous experience.
YOU CAN BECOME A PUBLISHED AUTHOR
Be under no illusion …
Your Book Can and Will Change Readers’ Lives… Once You Finally Get It Out and On The Shelves
How long have you been saying to yourself you need to get your book out, onto paper, printed, and shared with the world?
You probably think about your book every day. You promise yourself you will write your book. You know once you share what you know it can literally change the lives, experiences, or businesses of others.
Yet …
Your book is still a thought, maybe a handful of notes and nothing more.
Then again you might have given writing your book a try. And you know that moment when you sit down at your computer and ask yourself ‘what do I write?’ Then you finally write something, you share it with others and ask for their opinion.
After they share their opinion with you on what you’ve written you feel crushed. You’ve lost all confidence you had to write your book.
And of course, your job takes all of your time. Your kids take all of your time. Your hobbies take up all of your time.
Everything takes all of your time.
Another week passes. Another month passes. Another year passes. And now if you’re honest maybe 10, 15, 20, or even longer years have passed and you still haven’t written your book.
But you know what the really sad part about not writing your book truly is?
Your book really could change a reader’s life for the better.
I should know. After years I wrote my first book and the reader’s responses were just incredible. I get emails, messages and even people stopping me in the street telling me how my books have changed life for them. That feels good and that makes it all worthwhile.
Are You Finally Ready To Become An Author and Get Your Book Out?
As a published author you want to see your book in print and selling online or on a shelf?
Writing a book can be easier when you know how. It can be easier and faster when you know how.
Being a writer can change everything for you. It can change your life, change how others see you, change your perception, change the way you think and put you onto a whole new life level that others will admire. It can also even change how you earn your income.
I can help you to become a published author fast, get organised, get started, structure and format, pull the cover together and so much more and even get your book published so you are appearing on Amazon and most good online retailers just like me and millions of other published authors.
Get Your Book Out Now - Specialist Author Mentorship Program.
I have now published 24 books and am working on three as I write to you. That is my 17th book above (and best-seller small business book The Salon Punk.)
My books also are available in every good book store online, sell on a daily basis and I even had a best seller last Christmas on Amazon for my book The little Angel.
I get how hard it can be to write a book and become a published author because I have made that transition also. People have told me in the past – ‘Alan, you are not and will never be a writer – you are just a hairdresser’ (I was a hairdresser for over twenty years).
Yet here I am today making my living as an author and writer.
And I want you to know that getting my first book out and in print wasn't that easy. At times it was hard for me – very hard - yet despite how hard the transition into becoming a first-time author was it was worth every single penny and blood and sweat and tears.
Let me take you back a step or two.
I Haven’t Always Been a Published Author and Writer.
I used to write lyrics for my punk band when I was a teenager. The lyrics were more teenage rebel than the giant Tolstoy. I failed school; walked out of school at 15 years of age and still, today cannot tell you the difference between a verb and an adjective.
Although I have been writing in some form most of my life I really started writing as a career in the year 2000 (around then).
Before then the idea of being a published author of a book never even came into my thinking.
Around 2008 I started blogging and gained some online fame and followings. I made no money from blogging.
Around 2009 a friend of mine in San Francisco asked me if I had thought of becoming an author and writing a book?
My reply was ‘No’ because I hadn’t. Then at the end of a personal major life crisis (divorce), I finally had a very small idea of writing a book. The truth is though I had no self-belief as a writer not even in the slightest. I had no idea how to become a published author or how to even put a book together.
I Decided To Write My First Book
Finally, I made a start on a book but I hadn’t a clue what I was doing. I just sat and wrote from the start until I thought it was done. When I showed a friend he asked if I was adding chapters. I hadn’t even thought about chapters. I said ‘yes I think so,’ although I had given it no thought.
I then finished my first book draft. It was around 40,0000 words. Those words lay on my computer for six months or more. Finally, I came back to it to add the chapters but I couldn’t face adding them. It felt easier for me to simply delete the whole book and start again. That’s exactly what I did.
This time I approached it differently based on what my pal had said about the chapters. Eventually, I felt I had now written something like a book until I sent it to a publisher and got their feedback.
Once the publisher had the book and read it they rejected it – all of them rejected it. The biggest criticism was it hasn’t been edited and it was packed with typos. That was also true because I had never given a thought to send my book to an editor – why would I, I had no idea how to create a book from nothing?
Finally, sent the book to an editor. She made a catastrophic mess of my book and couldn’t fix what had been done. I had wasted almost $2,000 and had to get another editor. Finally, after yet another edit, I sent the book again to a new set of publishers. Guess what – it was rejected again and again and again.
At This Stage, I'd Wasted Literally Thousands of Pounds Because I Had No Idea What I Was Doing. I Had NO Idea of How To Become an Author!
Move forward to late 2011. I had finally been offered a book deal from a New York publisher. It was agreed and then more details had to take place. Book covers (don’t start me on that one), what goes on the back, what goes on the front, preface, introduction, the back of the book and all the tiny details I had no idea about.
My first book
ESCAPE FROM ZOOMANITY
Years later in January 2012 arrived and my book went live – Escape from Zoomanity - to guess how many sales? Absolutely zero.
I’d spent a small fortune of cash (AROUND 10K), invested a ton of my time and I truly believed in this book. The problem was no one was going to buy a book unless it was promoted. I had no idea that a publisher doesn’t really do a lot of things to help me sell my book. I really thought a publisher would do – like promote the book – they didn’t - they don't!
I also had to manage my other businesses in the meantime whilst sorting out this book, becoming an author, and writing more books were also being done. Websites, social media pages and so much more like talks, previews and other things that did and didn’t work for me as a new author.
Now a few years later I learned how to become a published author. I self-publish and I’m also published with my New York publishing house Morgan James and I love it. I have also started my very own publishing house for new authors.
Not only have I written over 20 books, I discovered how to successfully promote my books, sell my books and get invited here, there and everywhere to talk about the subjects within them my books.
You can find my books everywhere online. Here is my Amazon author profile page with my books. Being an author has paid off well and getting better and even better as time goes on.
Just to show you here’s a list of my books in paperback and Kindle I have published since 2012...
Deliberate Recreation
Deliberate Recreation The Collectors Edition
I Am Bastard I Am War
I Am God Have You Forgotten Me
Life Why Do You Tease Me
Happiness
The Little Angel and The Last Christmas
Observations 2008-10 Edition
I Am Bastard I Am War in Kartuli/ Georgian
Escape from Zoomanity
The Warriors - Poetry
The Lovers - Poetry
Short Story Collection
Salon Column Builder
The Salon Punk
SX-21 Salon Extreme Manual
Salon Reception Manual
Salon Sampler
The Missing Kit
The Accidental Copywriter
The Consultant
I Am Jacob
And I am currently working on three new books as I write to you.
One of my books sells by the dozen week after week, month after month. But I had to work out how to do that.
Having and writing books gets you invited to give talks, gives you fame, gives you a place on Earth, gives you a legacy to leave behind, gives you seeds for your children, gives you the power to share. They also get you invited to dinner, to the radio, to TV and so much more. Everyone loves you when you are a published author.
I don’t think that’s bad for someone that failed school, knows little of grammar or English.
But … I do want to say getting to this stage as an author; learning how to become an author was like walking through a swamp. No wonder so many new authors give up at such an early stage.
Even if we don’t work together I want to share what I found out during my own search to move my writing and publishing forward.
I Can Help You Get Your Book Idea Out of Your Head and Into Print And Into Every Online Bookstore
I am willing to work at your side as your new author mentor, as you need to for periods as long as you need me. I am willing to share with you how I have got my own long list of books from ideas onto paper and then into Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and literally hundreds of other online bookstores. And of course …. selling your book so you can finally fulfil your dream of becoming a published author.
And I can tell you … NO writing experience as an author is needed. NO author’s English degree is required. NO marketing mastery is needed. NO knowledge of the publishing industry is required.
Became An Author With No Experience
Admittedly, I made a mess or two or three on the way to becoming a new author, but you don’t have to make the same mess or waste the same amount of cash I wasted because I will show you everything I know. Things like …
How to become an author – The Essential Fast Track Experience
How to become a writer – The Big Secret No One Uses
How to start your book – My Fail-Proof System For Writing
How to fill out your book – A Blueprint For Writing your Book – Tested and Works!
How to finish your book – My ‘Man-In-A-Box’ Power Writer
How to sell books – From The First To The First One Hundred – THE METHOD!
How to get published – The 10-Minute Method (I did say TEN MINUTES!)
How to get an agent – The Hook and Bait Method To Hook An Agent!
How to do book covers – Best Seller Covers at $1 Prices!
How to get everywhere on Amazon – The 1,2,3 Publishers Hate You Knowing
How to fast-track everything no one tells you – How To Put Six Years Into One Month!
How to do everything and anything to finally become the author you’ve always dreamed of… The Secret transition Method To Becoming A Fully Paid Author
And everything only a published author of over 20 books could share with you.
Join My Authors Mentor Program and Get Your Book Idea From Your Head and Onto Paper.
Mentoring With Me You Will Get …
Fast-Track Insider Knowledge
Everything you should know to get started, avoid wasting time, taking the best route, get your book out of your head, book development, characters, story, designs, layout, and just about everything you need to know about becoming a new author. Mentoring with me gives you decades of real author knowledge.
Decades of Experience
Utilising my decades of experience helps you to avoid timely or costly mistakes. gives you confidence in all of your future author decisions and helps you to get the job of becoming an author right.
Proven Mentor For Writing and Publishing Books
Not only will you be working with a real author but I have been working and mentoring with individuals like yourself since as far back as 1989. In recent years and still today I also mentor businesses, copywriters, and consultants. I know all of the best and quickest ways as your mentor to get the very best from you at every stage of writing your book.
Expert Book Marketer
I have a reputation going back over three decades for higher response and very clever marketing. I can help you utilise this to sell your books.
And of course, we will go over all the stuff you really need to know.
How to get started on your book
How to develop your unique writing style and voice
The best way and techniques to find your best ideas
How to prepare your novel or legacy book
How to write amazing fiction based on the facts
How to write short stories, radio dramas, plays, scripts
How to write for TV and the theatre (if this interests you)
How to get your writing out there and selling
And so much more
And Your Book …
YOUR BOOK: as a new author put your life, your story, your expertise, your experiences into words
YOUR BOOK: Publish your business advice and gain fame as an author
YOUR BOOK: Author your life-changing events and history as a legacy in a new book for your family
YOUR BOOK: Write a legacy book for your children and gift the finished book to them
YOUR BOOK: Write what you know, how you know and why others need to know
And so many more ideas to become an author
WARNING: Online There Are Tons of So-Called Writers Mentors Teaching People Like You On How To Become an Authors … That Have Never Written a Book in Their Lives - Shocking Right!
There are stacks of book marketing experts wanting to give you cheap or free advice that has never once marketed a book.
There are tons of author coaches who don’t write, have never written and even hire content writers to make it look as though they write.
There are many, many, many online ‘experts’ who have never been through years of the authoring process willing to offer advice on the authoring process.
And worse of all – the writing process is so vague that if you have no idea of how to go from A-Z from idea to publishing it can be a very expensive process, to say the least.
I have experienced these ‘experts’. I have spoken to these. I have wasted money on some of these. AVOID them like the plague!
My Proven Process For How To Become a New Author and Published Writer
Today, I have my own process for new writers like yourself. My writer’s mentor process for publishing my books and new author’s books from the idea into print down to a relatively simple system I will use with you. Then into getting the book into stores online – including Amazon and all the big boys – and then market your book.
When you know how, when you have done it time and time again when you have a system and when you know that system works – it really isn’t as difficult as you are being told but only when YOU KNOW HOW!
New Writers Mentor With Author Alan Forrest Smith
My writer’s MENTOR program is bespoke because you are not the same as everyone else.
You might be a starter. You might be halfway through. You might even be a writer but after years still, have no idea what to do with your manuscript.
Wherever and whatever stage you are at right now I can help you move forward and move forward fast.
How My Writers Mentor and Author Training Works.
First, we should talk about what you actually need.
Second, we create a plan that we both agree on.
Third, we get started on getting your book done during writer’s mentor.
Your location is not a problem in the slightest with Skype/Zoom/Facetime/WhatsApp or a good old-fashioned phone.
This is the best opportunity for you if you are ready to get your book into the marketplace or you want to finally get your book out of your head and onto paper.
It could be a novel, it could be self-help, it could be business, it could be a kids’ book or it could be a book of any genre. A book is a book – the process is almost the same regardless.
I Can Help You Write Books Like This …
Legacy Books
Biography
Poetry
Philosophy
Self-Help
Business
Industry-specific
Children’s
How-to
Stories
Novel
Novellas
Film script
TV scripts
Documentary scripts
FILMS: as a side note my writing has now led me into making films. I am now completing my 6th film.
And The Process Of Becoming An Author And Writing Your Book In Any Genre Is The Same.
You can create any type of book and do whatever you like with that book.
Just imagine; your mind and thinking in words, on paper forever. It really is a wonderful legacy for you to leave behind.
I will show you everything I know and more than I have learnt about becoming an author and then getting published. You won't have to spend the same years I spent fumbling through from 2008 until 2012. I will show you what to do and how to make everything work as a newly published author very quickly.
A Guarantee You Will Become A New Author?
What I will guarantee is this: to give you the absolute best opportunity to go from idea all the way through to getting published. I guarantee you will have a book written and ready to be published as long as you do as I tell you and work hard to write your book under my expert author instructions. I can guarantee that because I’ve already gone from being a. hairdresser to becoming a published author of over 20-books a TV script, written four films and much more.
How long are you going to wait to get your book out and become a published author?
You can get started with me as your writing mentor right now, make a few mistakes and keep moving forward until your book is out there.
Your book once out there can give you fame, fortune, TV, radio, speaking invites and so much more (like money in your bank) and of course, there is this…
Your wonderful gift back into humanity in your words, experiences and knowledge of what you know. You will become a published author with a book on Amazon and every online outlet.
I Will Work At Your Side - Start To Finish
““Alan is inspirational, he is business clever. Not many can visualise a dud business in three dimensions, turning the company in his mind, penetrating to the bowels, foreseeing the traps, and laying an imaginative path towards its success. My book is now published. I am a published author.”
— DAVID NORE, NEWLY PUBLISHED AUTHOR
Strong Reasons For You To Work With Me As Your Mentor
Let me be blunt … I know exactly what I am doing. I don’t play around with try and hope things will work.
We speak face to face via video links. All of your calls are recorded so you can reply as you like
Guidance through every step of your writing. From word choice to book title we have it all covered.
The ability to get a real published author to critique your writing so you get the very best from the best experience.
You will have the ability to call me and speak to me directly about your am ready to work with you and mentor you into helping you to finally realise your possibility and dream of becoming an author.
Remember I have been where you want to be. I have done all of what you need to do already. I know the best and quickest ways through this swamp called authoring and publishing. Your outcome as a new author is my absolute priority and I will be at your side every step of the way.
There is a warning. My mentoring is strictly for you if you take your project as a new author seriously. If you really want to get your idea from your head and into a book. If you are dedicated, committed and will do what it takes to finally become an author.
And … you must write daily as part of your training.
If you can do that this will work for you, it will be worth your investment and it will be the making of you as a new author.
We will do calls and mentor online but just know you also have access to me daily until your training is complete via my private mobile, my private video number and my private email address for mentor only.
How Much Is It To Mentor As A New Author With Alan?
The Basic Details -Accurate Quote To Be Agreed
Starts From: From £12,995 (12-week structured calls - 12 weeks support authors mentor)
This is long enough to get your book into print and published with all of the above mentioned on this page. You get my exact same process.
HIRE ME TO WRITE YOUR BOOK
One place only with a minimum advance of £30,000. This process can take upwards of a year. Quote to be agreed.
We can work together much longer so this is bespoke and reflects in the price. I can also remove all the printing, publishing and promotion hassle from you with an added bespoke – we do it all here service. Details to be discussed.
Calls: All calls are done via Skype or Zoom online
Recordings: All of your calls are recorded for future listening.
What You Need To Do Now
The first thing you need to do is get in touch with me. I will then arrange a call so we can get to know each other better and I can understand your needs. This is also a perfect opportunity for us to see if we are a match. There is no obligation to do anything after this call. So make the most of it and ask me anything you like about your book and writing. If you do want to go further we will talk about that on your call.
If you would like to go further I will have gathered enough information on the call to offer you a quote based on what you need. I will then send you that quote and we can take things from there. As soon as I can get you into my schedule I will do that for you. That is usually no more than four weeks away from when we agree. Sooner if I can.
Becoming An Author and Getting Your Book Out.
Let me tell you this. Becoming a writer changed everything for me. It has given me a life I love, enjoy and control. I can work or I can take time off. Time is no longer my slave. My day and my life are now my own. How? This is just one unique privilege of being a writer and published author.
Once you start telling people you are now an author they will love it. It’s a conversation starter that is for sure. There is of course another side. That side is your book can change the lives of others in ways you will never believe. Readers are waiting to read your book. What are you waiting for? Is it now your time to get your book out and become the author you’ve always wanted to become.
I am waiting to start mentoring you.
I cannot wait for us to talk.
Let's talk and get your book out and published and turn you into the author you’ve always wanted to become.
Text or WhatsApp me at +44 7793069486 with the word AUTHOR and I will call you right back.
Or email me here at alan @ orangebeetle.com
I am excited to work with you and help you to become a new author and get your book published.
Your Author’s Mentor
Author, Writer, Mentor, and Filmmaker
Alan Forrest Smith
Ps if this is a dream of yours why put it off any longer? Once done your book is there forever. It took me years to get my first book out. Now I am on my 20th book. I will help you move forward and get your book published.