Write the book you’ve been carrying for years
A guided manuscript intensive for busy experts. We interview you, structure the argument, and shape your thinking into a finished draft in 12 weeks. Your voice, your rights, no ghost in the machine.
Manuscript program · Author keeps rights
Built for people who have the book but not the hours
Executives
Twenty years of decisions, distilled into the book your industry will quote back to you.
Founders
The origin story and the operating philosophy, written down before the next chapter starts.
Experts and advisors
The method you teach one client at a time, finally on paper for all of them.
Bryan Heathman has spent 25+ years turning expertise into books that sell
Bryan Heathman is founder and CEO of Made for Success Publishing. A former Fortune 500 marketer (Microsoft, Kodak, Xerox) and author of #1 Best Seller: Book Marketing…Reinvented and Conversion Marketing, he has run the campaigns behind Wall Street Journal and Amazon #1 titles for speakers and operators including the Ziglar family, Todd Stottlemyre, and Scott Hogle. Every Write a Book intensive is led by Bryan personally.
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One intensive, every part of the manuscript
No a la carte surprises. Everything below is in the Write a Book intensive.
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Book architecture
Title, thesis, chapter structure and the argument that holds it together, settled in week one.
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Guided interviews
Recorded working sessions that pull the book out of you, chapter by chapter, in your own words.
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Drafting
Our editorial team shapes each session into chapters you review and refine, so the voice stays yours.
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Developmental edit
A full structural pass on the completed draft before it is handed back to you.
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A finished manuscript
Delivered ready for publishing, with us or anywhere else. No obligation to continue.
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Rights retained
The manuscript is yours from the first page. Always.
Blank page to finished manuscript in 12 weeks
Architecture
Thesis, reader, title and a chapter map you sign off on before a word is drafted.
Interviews
Recorded sessions, one chapter at a time, drafted between sessions.
Revision
You read the full draft; we tighten structure, voice and transitions together.
Delivery
A finished, developmentally edited manuscript, and a clear next step if you want to publish with us.