What Type Book to Write?

Cookbooks are very popular, especially when it comes to self published books. Your cookbook needs to have something different, a unique angle, in order to sell. Why would anyone buy your book of French recipes when they can get the same from Julia Child’s cookbooks? One way to make yours unique is to add a bit of the French countryside and perhaps some fiction in with the recipes. This will prove to be entertaining to the reader as well as informational.

If you are going to write a novel, then you have to prepare as outlined in the previous chapter. Your novel should be of a genre that you like and most of all, something that you would buy yourself if it was available in the bookstore. You can put a lot of creative passion in your novel and turn it into something that will stand out. Many people self publish novels because the competition is so great to get a novel published by an unknown author in the mainstream press.
When you self publish, you do not need an agent to help you get your book to the publisher.

Working with an agent is a good idea if you are trying to publish in this way, but the Catch 22 is that some mainstream press companies will only work with an agent. And most agents will only want to work with a person who has a previous novel published. Needless to say, this makes it very difficult for someone to break into mainstream press with their book.

Even if you did manage to get a book published by a publisher, you would still have to market the book on your own. If you self publish, you can do the same type of marketing. Because so many people today buy books online, self publishing is quickly becoming the publishing form of choice for authors writing fiction and non-fiction.

Whether you write fiction or non-fiction is up to you. If you have a lot of creative energy and can make up plots and characters in your head, fiction writing may be for you. If you consider yourself an expert in a certain field, non-fiction writing is for you. You can use self-publishing for both non-fiction and well as fiction books.