How to Write a Multi-Author Book? Storytelling for Impact, Speak Up Save Lives and The Story of Impact

January 15th, 2010 by profitableauthor@gmail.com (Ronda Del Boccio, The Story Lady)

Creating a book such as Ken McArthur and I are writing, which is The Story of Impact is an exciting and involved undertaking. He and I discovered that we make a fabulous team when I helped him with his first bestseller, Impact: How to Get Noticed, Motivate Millions, and Make a Difference in a Noisy World.

: Cover via Amazon

He did all the writing for Impact and I helped him shape the material. He said his team of editors at Career Press only made 4 minor changes, one of which was a peculiarity of theirs that I could have incorporated had I known ahead of time. It seems th

ey don’t want you to say something is “like” something else. You have to say “similar” or some other synonym rather than like. Strange. Go figure.

I was thrilled that my involvement in the project made his life and theirs so much easier. Unfortunately, I never saw any message from Career Press asking who Ken’s capable editor had been and how to reach her and another offering to hire me as a book consultant or editor, but such is life!

For Ken’s next bestseller (yes, that is our plan), we are weaving together our own in-depth contributions plus the stories of our co-authors. Whereas other multi-author books are nothing more than an anthology of articles pasted together under a common theme, The Story of Impact will be a story of its own with co-author contributions that I will integrate into the book. They will not be stand-alone articles.

The Story of Impact will have its own “story arc” as any novel has, because the book moves you from where you are now into a deeper understanding of how to purposefully and systematically create an impact in whatever arena you desire.

Having an impact can be a fuzzy, nebulous thing, however, Ken McArthur took a year of his life to study impact and devise a system for how you go about having an impact in a directed manner. He put it to the test in 2008 when he assembled the Impact Bootcamp and a cadre of experts to teach them the tools of impact, such as creating buzz and leveraging contacts. Although Ken McArthur has shared what happened with his Impact Action Team at live events, this will be the first time he will reveal what happened in a book.

I am so excited to share the story of the Impact Action Team and how they reached over 19 million people in a month for SpeakUpSaveLives.org.

Here’s a video about the Impact Action Team and SpeakUpSaveLives.org. They reached 1.9 million people

Right now, Ken and I are researching, writing, and planning the structure of the book. I’m also telling the stories of our co-authors. The interviews with these extraordinary people are fun and enlightening.

If you want to keep up with The Story of Impact, I encourage you to register at TheImpactStory.com.

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