7 Steps to Successfully Publishing a Book
Taken from 'I Published 14 Books in 13 Months. This is how I did it.' Successfully publishing a book is a seven step process. 1. Brainstorming 2. Writing 3. Editing 4. Designing a cover 5. Laying out the book 6. Publishing the book 7. Promoting the book Step 1: Brainstorming. This is where you come up with the concept of your story. It all starts with an idea, or the spark of an idea and the first thing you are going to want to do is write all your ideas down - on paper or on a device - just get the ideas out of your head so you can make room for more ideas. Once you start getting the ideas flowing it helps to make a chart of the conflict, action and important moments in the book and in the characters lives. Write all your ideas down, you can discard the bad ones later, once you’ve started writing the book. Step 2: Writing. What genre are you writing? Horror, Comedy, a Kids Book? Who is your audience? Kids, Young Adults, Adults only?