{"id":902,"date":"2007-08-18T14:57:48","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T19:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2007\/08\/18\/book-publishing-how-to-write-a-book\/"},"modified":"2012-02-10T08:30:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T14:30:14","slug":"book-publishing-how-to-write-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/book-publishing-how-to-write-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Publishing: How to Write a Book?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottberkun.com\/blog\/2007\/how-to-write-a-book-the-short-honest-truth\/\">this post about writing a book<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottberkun.com\">Scott Berkun&#8217;s website<\/a>. Scott is an author and consultant in the software industry. Apparently since he&#8217;s written a successful book, a lot of professionals come to him for advice about book writing.<\/p>\n<p>But the truth is that anyone can write a book, as Scott points out. But what a lot of people are <strong>really<\/strong> asking is how to get published. Here are his comments on it:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Getting published<\/strong>. 30% of the time the real thing people are asking is how do you find a publisher. As if there wasn\u2019t a phone book or, say, an Internet-thingy where you can look this stuff up. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersmarket.com\/\">Writers-market<\/a> is literally begging to help writers find publishers. Many publishers, being positive on the whole idea of communication, put <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreilly.com\/oreilly\/author\/index.html\">information on how to submit material on their website<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writers.net\/agents.html\">so do agents<\/a>. The grand comedy of this is how few writers follow the instructions. That\u2019s what pisses off all the editors: few writers do their homework.<\/p>\n<p>The sticking point for most wanna-be published authors is, again, the work. They want to hear some secret that skips over the hard parts. Publishers are rightfully picky and they get pitched a zillion books a day. It takes <strong>effort<\/strong> to learn the ropes, send out smart queries, and do the research required to both craft the idea for a book, and then to propose it effectively. So while writing is a rejection prone occupation, even for the rock-stars, finding a publisher is not a mystery. In fact the whole game is self-selective: people who aren\u2019t willing to do the leg-work of getting published are unlikely to be capable of the leg-work required to finish a decent manuscript.<\/p>\n<p>But that said &#8211; it\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/\">easier today to self-publish than ever<\/a>. Really. But again, this requires work, so many prefer to keep asking writers how they got published instead of just doing it themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this post about writing a book on Scott Berkun&#8217;s website. Scott is an author and consultant in the software industry. 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