Publish Your Book by Michael Leyba

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I’m going to write and publish a book shortly. It has been a goal of mine
for a while now. It will be on the Beauty of Big Bend National Park.
I am researching now how to go about it. When I am successful
I will help other authors publish their books too. I believe that the
world of publishing has come a long ways since Gutenberg invented
his press with movable type.

Up to that time books were hand printed and took a long time to
make. They were beautiful books, but they took so long that
there were not many books published worldwide each year.

The Gutenberg printing press made it possible to print over 10
times the number of books produced each year. The quantity
of the books printed were much greater.

With the advent of computers and printers it is now possible for
people to make even more books. Here is the problem; most
people don’t know how to write a book. We are taught the
basics in school of how to write, but we were not taught how
to write a book.

The simplest book to write would be the autobiography. We
know the subject and we have all the information at our
disposal in our wonderful brains.

Have you ever thought about writing an autobiography?
Where would you start? How many chapters would it
have? Think about what a wonderful legacy for other family members.

Perhaps the best place to start is by reading other
autobiographies to get an idea of how they did it.

I think one of the biggest things that kept people from
publishing before was having a publisher to produce the
books and the quantity one had to have to sell the books
to pay for the publishing process.

The advent of Print on Demand (POD) publishers
and E-Books has helped the aspiring author to think
again about publishing books. My mother, Dorothy, wrote
many short stories on paper, but never typed in all the stories.
She never approached a book publisher about her stories.

Now with the tools available we can publish our own books.
We can type the manuscript, format it, edit it, and print it.
We can even get them bound and have a finished book.
The thing that complicates it at this point is getting the
ISBN number and Library of Congress copyright. This is the
part I am working on currently.

Once I publish my own book I will be in a position to help
others publish their books. Stay tuned for more information.
What do you think about this information? I’d love to hear
your comments.

Thanks for listening,

Michael

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Michael Leyba
http://www.michaelleyba.com

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