Writing your first book is a daunting prospect, even if you are motivated by needing it in order to advance in your profession. Publishing a book helps establish your leadership in your profession. Clients come seeking out the acknowledged leaders. A book of useful information and advice is a promotional package that people will pay for and won't throw away.
If you are interested in writing your first book to promote your professional practice, you may be worried about how much effort it will take. If just sitting down and writing a book looks like months of arduous labor, you're right, it is. It may take you months and it may take you hours a day for those months, and if you don't enjoy writing, or if you don't have the time, then you might never finish.
Also the material might become obsolete if you're in some fast-changing field. I kind of regret I didn't go into theology. It would be nice just to have something nailed down for eternity, but I went in to computers and that means my books quickly become obsolete,
Fortunately, you don't have to write all new material. Writing your first book, you can use articles you've already written or are writing anyway. You may have articles already sitting on your disk that you could just pack together edit slightly and produce a book from.
Writing your first book may already be done if you've been publishing an ezine or blog for a while. As an example, I send out an ezine once a month called To Wit on how to write memorable phrases. I've been doing this for four years now. I recently made a book from them. In fact, publishing the book wasn't my primary purpose. I made the book as an example in my instructional CD, Get Your Book Out, which shows how to publish a book print-on-demand. Nevertheless, the book is getting sales online, and I'll be selling copies at my seminars on crafting memorable phrases.
If you haven't been publishing an ezine or blog, it would be a good idea to start. An ezine or a blog keeps you in touch with people who are interested in what you are offering. If you can get people to sign up for an e-zine, you have your e-mail addresses. And when you have a new offer -- some service, some product, or a seminar, for example -- you can e-mail them and invite them to give it a try.
If you start publishing an ezine or a blog now, you will be inspired to write material on a regular basis -- certainly not less than once every six weeks. Once you have been publishing the ezine for a few years, you should have enough material for a book without being aware that you've written it.
Writing your first book needn't take you away from your everyday life if you can find a way to reuse what you've already written or are writing anyway.
Author Resource:-
You can publish a book cheaply, quickly, and easily at an online print on demand publisher. A CD containing instructional videos and software will walk you through the steps to publish a book. The CD is available from Thomas Christopher, a public speaker living in Boulder, Colorado.
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