write a book

How I did it: First, I found a niche topic I'm interested in. Then I studied the topic so I could answer the Q people usually ask. Then I bought a 'How to write ebooks' guide book from Amazon. Cost = five dollars. This was incredibly helpful. Someone recommended it. I did a mind-map of everything I'd learned. Then I structured my topic information and began writing. Research took 1 day. Drafting & structuring took 1 day. Writing took four days. Mea… Read how I did it…

How I did it: I have been saying that i wanted to write a book for 8-10 years. I never have, mostly out of pure laziness!But i decided to take on Nanowrimo this year and i actually finished it!!!I only halfheartedly attempted to do it once in 2005. But i didn't take it very seriously so i didn't even get very much done on it.But this year i was determined to do it! I signed up on the website and kept track of my word count and now i have finished 10 da… Read how I did it…

How I did it: I recently finished and submitted my dissertation for my Ph.D.  It's a 180 page book.  I did it with a lot of support, and a lot of sustained effort.  It took 3 years, although I didn't work on it every single day during those 3 years.  The writing was difficult, of course, but even more difficult was the editing process that I went through with my advisor and the committee.  They were essential, not for the ideas… Read how I did it…

How I did it: I write about things I like based upon my interests, profession, conversations with people or sometimes out of curiosity. My husband and I self published a book on relationships about 12 years ago. It was expensive and the process was slow. However, this year I was able to publish a book under my pen name, that is doing okay,So, after some discussion, our topic is still relevant and we decided to republish our book. The tools that are ava… Read how I did it…

How I did it: I wrote my book using Apple Pages software, and published it as an enhanced eBook for iPad for sale on my own website via e-junkie.com's shopping cart services. I also published it on Amazon.com via the Kindle Direct Publishing website, and on Barnes and Noble's website via PubIt. I initially tried to publish on Apple's iBooks Store but ran into delays because of image resolution issues, I did not persist in their publishing process but m… Read how I did it…