By Kim G Lain

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You can develop your manuscript on your time, at your leisure, at your own pace, right at your PC and then simply upload and wait for your professionally bound, bookstore quality books to arrive.

By Shelley Hitz

Interested in self-publishing books? If you have a website, you can re-purpose your top articles into a book. Think about it. After you write heaps of quality articles and lots of traffic on your website, why not reuse it, all the same articles in a printed book, PDF eBook, audio books and Kindle book getting the most out of your time and work.

These are My 8 Painless Steps to Self Publishing Books:

1. Write down an layout for the book chapters with the top articles from your website.
2. Enter your book in a Microsoft Word template (or your preferred software) formatted for your preferred book size.
3. Save your book to PDF.
4. Select a book designer for your book cover or choos a DIY format.
5. Decide amongst all the publishers who you want to use to publish your book.
6. Sign up for an account with self-publishing and upload your documents, if relevant.
7. Now begin your book marketing by selling copies online at Amazon, via your own website and in person when you speak or at events.
8. Now it is the time to layout the book into a PDF ebook, audio book and Kindle book.

This is what I did with my website Teen-Beauty-Tips.Com.

New imprint, Seventh Millennium, a division of Nordskog Publishing, Inc. is now in full production.

Authors know that the competition for the few available publishing spots is fierce; meaning that some particularly promising manuscripts will not see publication or will be delayed.

School bus driver tells her story of developing an online publishing empire so her friends now jokingly call her the “Internet Publishing Queen…” But it wasn’t always this way. In a small mountain town of Pagosa Springs, Colorado, with plenty of hard work to do, at the same time developing an internet business, Cary Ellis found herself working long hours and having to push on when she wanted to quit.

Today’s authors need to be expert marketers.

At one time, authors were coddled and cosseted (a very, very long time ago). Today’s authors need to consider how they’re going to get that book sold, often long before the book is written.

Anyone who goes the route of self-publishing knows that they are responsible for getting the word out about their book, but many authors don’t realize that even the larger publishing houses have cut their marketing divisions down to such an extent that unless you’re a regular name on the New York Times Bestseller List, you’re not going to qualify for a marketing slush fund.

What does this mean for you?

If you have any intention of writing a book that will reach the audience you want to reach, you are going to have to do all the marketing for your book.

Even before you write the first word, you need to consider the following points:

• Who your audience is
• What they want to know
• Why they need your book
• How your book is going to help them better than anyone else’s book out there

I admire anyone who has the desire to write a book, especially a nonfiction book that is designed to share information that the author has and I don’t.