WRITE YOUR BOOK WITH ME

Most adults hope to write a book. Why not do so before it is too late? The author a retired scientist who has published over 100 articles and has authored co-authored or edited a half-dozen books tells the would-be author how to plan prepare publish promote and reap the pay-offs from writing a book fiction or non-fiction. PLAN: determine your goals. Why are you writing? For self-satisfaction? For family friends and acquaintances? For the mass market? Your choice will influence how you go about publishing: printing self-publishing or using an indie subsidy or traditional publishing house. Writing for a large audience requires thinking about demographics: who is your ideal reader? Age gender location race ethnicity income politics ethnicity marital status...all count. PREPARE: book writing tips are given from a constellation of authors. Nonfiction approximately the truth requires a degree of research that fiction not necessarily the truth will not although historical fiction will need to take place in a real time and place. Your nonfiction title needs to be short descriptive possibly a bit puzzling clarified by your subtitle. Your fiction title needs to evoke curiosity while signaling the genre of the book as readers rarely buy books in genres other than their favorites. More advice is given on title cover dedication table of contents acknowledgment foreword and preface...what's up front counts. Find time and space then sit think write perhaps open a vein. Heed the guidelines from ELEMENTS OF STYLE. Dr. Cooper describes the basics of the most popular types of nonfiction and fiction books. PUBLISH: computer manuscript preparation and print-on-demand technology have revolutionized publishing. A million new titles per year can reach the marketplace ten times what was typical a decade or so ago. Authors can print their own books work with an independent (indie) publisher pay a subsidy or vanity press or tr