Self Publish Your Own How To Book

Unless you're already a writer, you probably haven't seriously thought about publishing a book. But with today's self publishing revolution, anyone can do just that without having to submit a manuscript to dozens of publishers and deal with dozens of rejections from gate keepers who just aren't interested.

These days, you can write whatever you want, self publish for little or no cost, and market it to almost anyone in the world for instant purchase. You can even set your own price!

In this article I'll show you how to write a how to book and self publish it to make extra money.



You Don't Have to Be a Writer
Yes, I know.

You're probably not a writer.

That's ok.

All you need to know is how to write an understandable sentence. You don't have to be Hemingway or T.S. Eliot. Just be you.

What would you write about?

Write about what you know how to do.

Everybody knows how to do something. It doesn't have to be anything complicated or highbrow, just a short book on how to do almost anything will work just fine.

Believe it or not, just because you know how to do something relatively common doesn't mean everyone else knows how to do it. And it especially doesn't mean anyone has taken the time to write a How To book about it.





Getting started
How do you get started? The first place to go to learn about self publishing is at Amazon's two book publishing platforms. One for Kindle books, and the other for physical books.

I won't go through a lot of information on the actual process of self publishing here. But if you want to write a How To book to publish on Amazon's Kindle platform, you will use the Kindle Direct Publishing site. If you want to publish a physical book, you have to use their CreateSpace website.

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