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Self-Publishing Guru Dan Poynter explains and
educates new writers on how to write publish
and promote their first book.
Dan Poynter fell into publishing. He spent
eight years researching a labor of love.
Realizing no publisher would be interested in
a technical treatise on the parachute, he
went directly to a printer and "self-
published." The orders poured in and he
suddenly found he was a publisher himself.
In 1973, he became interested in a new
aviation sport, couldn't find a book on the
subject so he sat down and wrote one. After
four months of writing and intense research
that took him from coast to coast, he
delivered the manuscript to the printer. So
far, Hang Gliding has sold over 130,000
copies-a "best seller"!
Continuing to write, Dan has produced more
than 76 books and revisions so far, of which
some have been translated into Spanish,
Japanese, Russian, British-English and
German. Over the years, Dan has developed a
system of writing that makes it all so easy
and fun. His books are loaded with facts and
figures and contain detailed inside
information. They are always up-to-date
because he revises them before going back to
press. Dan has sold millions of his books,
including several best sellers, for ten of
millions of dollars in sales. Many of his
books sell at the rate of 10-20,000 copies
per year, every year.
For many years, Dan ran Para Publishing all
by himself. In fact, he was often billed as
the world's largest one-person publishing
company. As a one-man show, an
author/publisher who handled all the writing,
publishing and promotion, office management
and shipping himself, Dan is in the best
position to advise a first time
self-publishing author who is on a limited
budget. Today, Dan has staff, a number of
products and services (books, reports, tapes,
disks, seminars, etc.) and a large suite of
offices with a 360 view of the mountains and
the Pacific Ocean.
Dan has traveled to more than 40 counties and
he has even skydived into the north pole. He
has written several technical books on
parachutes and popular books on skydiving.
When you have your own business and control
your own product, you can pursue your dreams.
Dan's work for publishing was recognized by
the Publishers Marketing Association when
they gave him the Benjamin Franklin Award. He
was given the Irwin Award for the best
electronic promotion campaign by the Book
Publicists of Southern California. He is a
past vice-president of PMA.
Dan Poynter's seminars have been featured on
CNN, his books have been pictured in The Wall
Street Journal, and his story has been told
in U.S. News & World Report. The media comes
to him because he is the leading authority on
book marketing, promoting and distributing.
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