Publish Your Book Or Novel

Now that you have written your book, you need to get it published. You will be faced with three (3) options:

1. Find an Agent

An agent will do all the leg work including finding, negotiating and selecting a publisher. This would not cost you any money up-front but the agent will require to be paid an percentage of the profits of the sale of the book and/or a percentage of the royalties. Each agent will have their own rules and regulations, so be prepared to look around, evaluate and negotiate. You can start by using the search engines: search the term "literary agent".


2. Find Your Own Publisher

You can do all the leg work yourself. This will be time consuming and would require some knowledge of the publishing process. This step is not advisable for the novice writer. However, there are many online resources that could simplify the process. Simply search "publishing houses" and you should get a sizeable list, including listings that indicate whether they are accepting new manuscripts.

Note, however, that most publishing houses like to deal with professional agents. So while you will retain control of the process, you will need to commit a lot of time as well as to seek legal advice on the final publishing contract.

3. Self-Publish

The last, but by no means least, publishing option is to publish the book or novel yourself. There are a number of new self-publishing websites and companies that can help you put your words into print, and even sell them on some online booksellers' websites. All you need to do is to input your manuscript into their website or send your manuscript directly to these publishers. This will allow you to create an e-manuscript that can then be printed on demand or you can simply sell your manuscript as an e-book.

Whichever publishing option you select, you will need an enormous amount of patience since the process can be drawn out. However, once you get that first book out you are on you way to a writing career. The end really justifies the means.

Best of luck in your endeavour to write and publish you book or novel.

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Write Your Book Or Novel Now!

Writing a compelling and profitable fiction or non fiction book can be easier than you think. Long ago, you would have to sit for hours putting you ideas together: jotting down your notes, arranging and rearranging them, manually consult with thesauruses and dictionaries. Then you compose the book, get a friend to proofread it and then you send it to a publisher who may or may not accept it. With computer technology and the Internet, writing resources are available at the push of a key, largely "automating" and speeding up your writing. There is a pretty good writing software that you could get here that is a highly credible and easy to use software writing program that will quickly help you to start and finish your novel or book. CLICK HERE.

Emails allow you to identify online publishers and efficiently send manuscripts and receive responses. And, even if you do not get your book published by a traditional publisher, you are now able to publish and sell an ebook online, or self-publish your book in hard copy.

Of course you have to start with the basics (which have not changed over the centuries):

• an author's mindset, which can be acquired;
• a concept/idea, not necessarily original but unique;
• the time and effort to put your thoughts initially down on paper;
• the ability to convert these thoughts into a coherently structured body of material.

Remember that you are writing for an audience. So, your concept, story and character must be attractive to your target audience.

There is much more to writing a book/novel that I could cover in this post. Come back from time to time for more tips and resources.

Remember, good writing can be taught. Use the available resources wisely. You can begin by checking this site for all the resources you will ever need to write and publish your book or novel:

http://www.write-your-book.info/


Regards

Dr. Michael M. Seepersaud
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