Booklets from Fiction

It's frequently obvious that a tips booklet can be created by distilling the contents of a non-fiction book, thereby expanding the product line of the author/publisher as well as cross marketing each of the two products. The "how-to's" often jump right off the page as candidates for a tips booklet.

A little less obvious, yet just as possible, can be the idea of developing a tips booklet from a book of fiction or short stories or even poetry. Look at the setting or the theme to find solutions. The book might be someone's fictional story set growing up on a farm in midwestern America. The accompanying booklet can include things like how to make friends living on a farm, or how to manage your time with the farm chores and everything else to lead a balanced life, or tips for generating additional income living in a rural setting. It's actually difficult to imagine a situation where a tips booklet would be impossible to write that is correlated with some form of fiction.

You may recall all the hoopla in the early 1990's with the book, Celestine Prophecy. It was fiction, focusing on spirituality and the law of attraction, set in Peru and the US. An entire movement of workbooks and workshops came from that fictional book, with a huge following, originally based on a book of fiction.

So it all depends on your point of view as to how you leverage what it is you've got. All things are possible when you see it that way.

Until next time,
Paulette - taking a holistic approach to life
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