Gordon Burgett: 18 books

The title really says it all: “Open” Book Publishing is Almost a Miracle! About four years ago some printers changed their business model, and that changed the entire publishing landscape. They told authors and publishers how to submit their books—it didn’t much matter what they were about,...

Surviving Prostate Cancer: A survivor’s mostly funny diary, 21.6 PSA to 1.4 and dropping… is a humorous yet in-depth, no-nonsense account of the near-year the author spent experiencing successful treatment for prostate cancer. A tack-head summary of its contents would be “Discovery, The...

K-12 leaders use professional guides all of the time, so why shouldn't they save time and investment by doing the same to get their articles and books quickly and reliably in print? That's precisely why Gordon Burgett (author of 1700 articles and 38 published books) wrote this how to no-nonsense book....

It's harder and harder to place articles in magazines, newspapers, and other publications. The recession is up, the amount of advertising is down, and there are fewer articles being bought by fewer magazines and newspapers. So to see print you need to make the very topics you suggest or write...

Description of Emceeing, Show Planning, and Script Writing Practical, applied experience and examples (including two full scripts) for folks wanting advice about emceeing, and the show planning and/or script writing often related to it or required to do a first-rate job. These are the...

This 14-page no-nonsense booklet explains the process for designing, pretesting, and marketing a niche book. By extension, it tells what must be said if you wish to write a niche book. Gordon Burgett, the booklet author and best known for his book Niche Publishing: Publish Profitably Every Time, shows that niche publishing is a high-profit, low-risk, barely tapped river of gold.

Publish profitably, risk free, and quickly by using veteran publishing guru Gordon Burgett's widely-tested process. Sidestep unsold books, balky wholesalers and distributors, and unusable returns. You test first, then sell directly to eager, price-flexible buyers who badly want what you put in print....

Only now can a writer get his or her book published free in minutes and have it marketed worldwide in days. Gordon Burgett now offers a how-to, step-by-step guide that walks beginners and veterans through the process: from writing to submitting to marketing. It can be a novel, cookbook, nonfiction, kids' book, memoir, or a dozen other kinds. In fact, this book is a perfect example!

School board rookies or veterans, superintendents, administrators, and the education-guiding citizenry are the reading targets for Jim Burgett’s newest K-12 book (of six). The Art of School Boarding should also be mandatory reading for candidates seeking school board election. As Burgett...

Brian Schwartz masterfully makes complex K-12 education laws understandable while Jim Burgett magically creates win-win situations. Here, the two prize-winning educators balance best practices and the law in a compelling book that’s full of practicality, reality, humor, and common sense. “It should be required reading by every educator everywhere” is what we hear most.

Rights and Responsibilities of School Principals is the bedrock first chapter of Jim Burgett's newest full book, The School Principal’s Toolbook. What is more important for school principals than knowing the principal’s rights and responsibilities in their district? What do others expect of them—others...

As a school administrator you may cringe at the word “create” if you think of all the barriers, hoops, and politics that may be involved if you want to implement a new idea or, in fact, “create” almost anything. As well, the path from vision to implementation is often bumpy and sometimes it...

The most important element of a niche book is that its title tells those in the niche why they need to buy it, to find out what it says, and to receive the benefits it states or implies. It's the same in niche marketing. It all develops around finding a vital need that any person in that niche...

Shows how, step-by-step, to create and publish an unforgettable gift, A High School Graduation Book, a lifelong keepsake that captures an event, memory, or one-time rite of passage. This is a book to give to your kid, your grandkid, or any kid getting a diploma! It includes a plan, checklist and timetable,...