Write or Outsource Your Book

At last, the fun part. Actually creating your awesome book.

As mentioned earlier, broadly you have two alternatives:

  1. Write it yourself.
  2. Pay someone else (ghostwriter) to write it for you.

You'll write it yourself if it's a fact book showcasing your expertise on a particular subject.

You'll write it yourself if it's a work of fiction that you're wanting to publish and get out into the world. Maybe it's a book that you've had inside you for a long time. It could be in one of your favorite genres.

You'll pay someone else to write it if you just want to make money from a hot, profitable niche.

In all cases, you'll be using the book template that you created as described above.

Does Size Matter?

If you're writing it yourself, no, not really. It will take however many words that are needed. Here are some rough guides to size definitions. Repeat, rough guides, there's a lot of leeway.

Short Story: 5,000 to 10,000 words or around 25 pages.

Novelette: 10,000 to 20,000 words.

Novella: 20,000 to 50,000 words.

Novel: Upwards of 50,000 words. Fun fact: War and Peace has 587,287 words!

However... If you're just in it for the money, you best format is the 25 page short story in a genre that's hungry for their next fix. And one genre really stands out. I'll reveal it in the next article along with how to find a top-notch ghostwriter.



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Phil, I started a KDP Account a few days ago and published my first e-book. Today I published 3 more. Your training walked me right through it. But I am still lost. I have a couple of more papers I have written and want to publish them also. But I have run into a slight snag right now with one of them and I am going to send you a PM. it is currently 2124 Monday night here in Rogers, Arkansaw.

Sonny
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phil1944 Premium
OK Sonny I'll look out for it.
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roysinOnline Premium
Timely training for me, Phil. My first book is in "production", and even if it is a long term project of mine (not at the top of my priority at the moment), this training come in very handy. It fits very well into the long term plans of rebooting my business and my new niche website.

I will be following the next parts of the series with eyes wide open :-)

Roy
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phil1944 Premium
Sounds great, Roy. All the best with it. Part 2 has now been published:
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Freedomseekr Premium
Great training for getting started on publishing books on Amazon, Phil! This has been an idea of mine to do for awhile now, although I did work with a couple others in the past, I didn't have much to do with the actual setting up all this on Amazon. So, this will help a lot once I get going on it as I'm still trying to decide on what type of book to do, lol.

Thanks for sharing!
Best wishes :) ~Sherry
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phil1944 Premium
My pleasure, Sherry. Part 2 of the training will include picking a genre on the basis of making money from it and getting the actual book ghostwritten.
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Freedomseekr Premium
Sounds awesome! Looking forward to checking it out!
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Nina64 Premium
Thanks so much for this great information. My niche is on gardening for the beginner. Can I just incorporate the information from my articles on my website into a book. I see how I can create a series from the different menus that I have. Do you think that's a good idea or is it being redundant.
Nina
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phil1944 Premium
No, it's a great idea. I single source as much as possible. You automatically own the copyright to all original material you produce so can do what you like with it.
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Nina64 Premium
Thanks for the reply. I was hoping you would say that. Why reinvent the wheel?
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JeffreyBrown Premium Plus
I have two books of my WA Blogs, so why not, Nina? Go for it!

Jeff
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Nina64 Premium
Thanks for letting me know! I appreciate it.
Nina
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phil1944 Premium
You're welcome, Nina.
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RCanty Premium Plus
Appreciate the info, Phil!

Canty
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You are most welcome, Canty.
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