Write a book and get it published

Well, I’ve now got about 7 viable ideas (all non-fiction), so I narrowed it down to the easiest two to start with and see if I even have the patience to do this. I’ve got outlines and have started banging some stuff out. I’ve also pulled a bunch of books off my shelf that are in the vein of where I want to go format-wise so I can get ideas.

I also came up with a few potential pseudonyms, since if you punch my name into Amazon.com, it brings up all the books I’ve illustrated (which are pretty bad, for the most part). If I’m going to be writing my own books, I’d like to start with a clean slate.

I’ve also been reading “Putting Your Passion into Print” which has, so far, been pretty informative and I like that it doesn’t sugar coat anything.

So I’ve decided that in the upcoming year, I’m going to spend more time working on this. I have 2-3 good ideas, so over the course of the next year, I want to have them at least outlined with treatments so I can start shopping them around.

All I know is that it would have to be non-fiction. Everyone I know who ever got a fiction book published made no money and was very bitter about it.