DIxie Carlton
ALLi Author Member
Location: Australia & New Zealand
Genres: Mind Body Spirit, Self-Help/Personal Development, General Nonfiction, Biography, Narrative Nonfiction, Other, Womens Fiction, Advice & How To, Historical Fiction, Writing & Publishing, Memoir, Romance
Dixie Maria Carlton, The Word Witch, is all about Curating Conversations, and Storytelling! In 2001, Dixie Maria Carlton sold her successful promotional marketing company and with a restraint of trade in place for a few years, decided to write a book while thinking about future career options. She got lucky! Amazon was only just really starting to gather steam, and her book found its way through an industry connection to a ‘co-author’ in the USA. She also ended up being personally coached by a high-profile publishing and marketing specialist on where those industries collided in the emerging self-publishing world. 20+ books and a few awards later, Dixie has been assisting other top ranked professional speakers, CEOs, and industry leaders from around the world to develop their expertise and publishing aspirations, while also developing her own international professional speaking and writing career. She has helped to publish approximately 200 books, many are best sellers, and they and their authors are award-winning high-profile experts in their respective fields, from Europe, USA, Australasia and the UK. Dixie has represented many of those books at international book fairs in Frankfurt and London, sold foreign rights, worked with respected literary agents and PR specialists, and is recognised as a pioneer in the world of Publishing 3.0. Covering industries including IT, Security, Agriculture, Retail, Education Mountaineering, and medical fields, Dixie has worked with some extraordinary authors. Describing her work as ‘getting paid to deep dive into fascinating lives and topics’, she’s happiest helping others to develop their stories, and share them using her Tri-Variant FrameworkTM for Content Curation. Dixie Carlton is one of only a handful of global experts’ industry specialists who fully understands the intersection of the publishing, professional speaking, and marketing industries and how they relate to each other, for experts who work between Pages and Stages.
DIxie Carlton's books
Genres: Advice & How To, Business, General Nonfiction, Self-Help/Personal Development, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
If you want to write a book, whether you plan to do this yourself, or find a book ghost writer to help you, you need to start at the very beginning. Start with the Draft. The first draft of a non-fiction book is not something you can just ‘magically do’ without a plan. So, here’s how to do the first things first, and start with the draft of your manuscript, by working through the easiest planning process to get that content out of your head and into the hands of your readers. This book takes you through the preplanning – who your readers are, why they want this book, what you can do to help them take action making changes, and what kind of book it will be. Then you develop your contents using the very easy Tri-Variant FrameworkTM that Dixie Carlton has been using and teaching for more than...
Genres: Advice & How To, Business, Narrative Nonfiction, Self-Help/Personal Development, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
A simple tale of three authors, three ways to write and publish a book, three different outcomes.... ◆What non fiction authors really need to know getting leverage on their authority◆ Whether you’re writing non-fiction e books, or selling your expertise as a writer of blogs and articles, the business of being a writer is exactly that, a business. It’s a business for authors and experts who speak, retired professionals, people who have something to say and maybe want to change their corner of the world in some way. But what many authors don’t realise is that once the book is written, then the hard work begins as you tackle the difference between being an author vs authority. This book covers areas authors need to know including file uploading, publishing options, social media, media training, planning your book and speaking professionally about your topic. These are the things many authors are...
Genres: Advice & How To, Health & Fitness, Self-Help/Personal Development
The first in the Taboo Conversations Series - prompting the discussions we often don't have with each other but need to. How do we navigate the old or new relationships when our bodies and minds are often radically different than they once were. Do all our bits and pieces still work? And what do we really want now from our relationships. Dixie Carlton explores in lay-terms (no pun intended) how to cope with blended families when first dating again, working through online dating apps, and intimacy issues. Sex as empty-nesting menopausal midlife goddesses is a whole knew ballgame too - but here's your handbook on how to totally enjoy yourself horizontally and vertically after 50! (Ps - it's also for the fellas!)
Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Cosy Mystery, Womens Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
Who knows what really goes on behind closed doors... What if you were married to someone you thought was dying, but then again, maybe it's all an elaborate hoax? What if, someone else was really pulling all the strings in your relationships? Maybe there's a lot more going on than first appears... James is up against something he has no control over, and maybe the only way out is with the help of an old Japanese professor of mythology. Explore how the angst of a woman with declining mental and physical health can impact on the lives of those around her, as she struggles to keep a tight grip of her husband. All is not what it seems and Alice will go to extraordinary lengths to secure her own ultimate satisfaction, even if that means risking her own demise...or at least her own sanity.
Genres: Cosy Mystery, Mystery, Womens Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
When a young Scottish woman is raised traditionally but wants more from life than marriage and a brood of children, what more can she do but run away from home and discover what city life is like in the 1930s. For Margaret McKenzie it's exciting, and leads her into the arms of Nate, and the swinging jazz scene of downtown Auckland in wartime New Zealand. Soon she learns the hard way about life as a single mother, and has to go to extraordinary lengths to protect her children from being taken away from her. But what happens when her former spoilt rich young lover returns with his wife not far behind him. His idyllic life is not so sweet, and soon Margaret must fight once again for her children. And why is the mysterious Thomas Morris following her from the day she arrives in Auckland as a young teen, only...
Genres: Advice & How To, Business, Self-Help/Personal Development, Travel Writing, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
When it comes to marketing your understanding of the basics can potentially save you thousands of dollars on advertising, marketing and branding. This book covers the basics of each of the key areas of marketing and branding, including: • Identifying Target Markets • Marketing and Brand Planning • Media and Promotions • Websites and Social Media • Customer Service Essentials • Gaining Repeat and New Business • Building Your Reputation Through Public Relations This book will help you to understand the basics of business and marketing plans, branding, image, customer service and public relations so that you can grow your business through simple and smart marketing practices. Getting the basics right can make such a difference to the outcomes. Measuring the results of your advertising can lead to effective decision making about what to spend and where to invest your marketing budget. When you understand ‘how it works’ you get...
Genres: Advice & How To, Business, Self-Help/Personal Development, Travel Writing, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
Before you even START to write your FIRST book...Read this one! Whether you’ve already started to write, are still thinking about writing, have written already, or are anywhere on the road to publishing a non-fiction book, this book will guide you through the process. From starting, finishing and polishing your manuscript, to understanding the self publishing vs traditional publishing models and then handling your marketing and distribution challenges you'll find out how to AVOID Expensive learning curves and traps for new authors! With the experience of publishing, marketing, and distributing dozens of non-fiction books in the last 10 years, Dixie Maria Carlton openly shares all that she’s learned about the process of going from Idea to Author-ity that will save any author time, significant money, and frustration when faced with “I wrote a book – now what?” Having helped more than 50 authors, to write/publish/market/distribute and get leverage on their...