7 STEPS TO PUBLISHING A BOOK For first-time authors, the book publishing process can be a daunting one. Writing and publishing a book is not just a creative endeavor, it’s a job. As with any new job, there’s a learning curve. So to help you over the hump, the following is a step-by-step approach to the book publishing. Step One You may be surprised to learn that the first step is not to write your book. We at SOTERIA encourage authors, even before they fire up their computer and crack their knuckles, to think seriously about who they believe is going to buy and read their book. We sometimes hear, “This is a book anyone would want to read.” This is false. The best way to market your book commercially is to figure out your niche of readers first. There’s often an obvious answer for nonfiction books. For example, a book about succeeding in sales is likely to appeal to business people involved in sales. The most obvious readers are going to be managers looking for new training skill sets or sales people looking to hone their techniques to better serve their clients and their organizations. With fiction books, the audience may be harder to figure out. But it isn’t just who may like to read your book. It may be who will talk about and buy your book. For example, if you’ve written a horror fiction novel, the obvious target market is people who like that genre. However, maybe your main character is a spooky cat vampire. So now you can tailor your marketing down even further to people who like cats or vampires and horror fiction... Continue reading, follow link and go to blog; soteriapublishinghouse
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 23:59:06 +0000
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