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and maybe the most important step in writing a book is coming up with a great idea for some really useful or interesting book. The great idea makes the writing fun. The great idea makes the book easier to sell to a publisher. In the end Nike Air Max 93 Saldi , the great idea means you've got a shot at making good money from your writing. Unfortunately, many new writers don't have a clue as to how to do this. Accordingly, I offer the following tips based on the 150 or so books I've written and the three dozen books I've published:


Don't pick something big and obvious?


The first thorough book on any important topic'the last war, the current big business success, the next medical breakthrough?can be a good book that succeeds even to the point of becoming a bestseller. But I respectfully suggest that you leave the big topics to the big writers. The problem with big Nike Air Max 360 Saldi , well-known topics is that they are well-known. And that means, very probably, that big publishers are already talking to big authors about writing books. Sorry. But that's the reality.


Find your own space?


A related point to this idea of staying away from the really big topics is that you need to find your space. You will find it very hard to succeed?especially as a new writer?if you're doing what's already been done. Publishers, booksellers and readers will too easily respond to your book or book idea with the feeling, ?Well Nike Air Max Plus Saldi , yes, but hasn't [insert name of well-known, bestselling writer here] already done that?? By innovating, however, you may be able to find your own empty space?a niche that isn't already occupied by some successful book or series or author.


Fortunately Nike Air Max 97 Scontate , you often don't need to be wildly innovative to create the illusion of existing in a new space. Incremental innovation usually works well. All you need, sometimes, is to be just enough different that publishers, booksellers, and readers will say Nike Air Max 97 Saldi , ?Oh, that seat is empty.?


A warning must be made, however. Your innovation can't be to ?write a better book.? And it's not that writing a better book isn't a good idea. It's just that ?writing a better book? isn't innovative. Too many writers think of the idea.


Test the market appeal of your idea?


Here's another technique for filtering and refining your ideas: You ought to write a press release for your idea to verify that the ultimate book sells well as a concept. A press release is a one-page news story that touts your book and proves to people who will help sell and promote your book'distributors, wholesalers, booksellers and magazine editors'that your book is special and unique and worth looking at. Your press release gives your book a chance to break out from the pack of other books and get noticed. Any idea that can't be distilled into a great press release is risky.


You can see what book press releases are by visiting publisher web sites. You want to visit web sites and look for press releases for books like the book your idea may produce. While you're doing this Nike Air Max 90 Saldi , look at any magazines that review books like the one you're contemplating: Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist, and so on. Get an idea about the sorts of books get people talking.


Build a list of periodicals that will blurb your book?


If you're considering a nonfiction book, you ought to be able to come with a list of a handful of special interest periodicals (magazines Nike Air Max 180 Saldi , newsletters, newspapers, and so forth) that prove people are interested in the topic of your book. If you want to write a book about raising Guinea pigs, conspiracy theories concerning the last president, or monetary policy in emerging economies Nike Air Max 95 Saldi , for example, one of the best ways you can confidently predict people will buy and read your book is to verify that people are already buying and reading periodicals about the topic.


If you do construct such a list, include the list and subscriber count information in your proposal to a publisher. The publisher can use your list to promote your book. In fact, as a former publisher, I promise you a publisher will look more seriously at any proposal that shows this level of author insight into the marketing of a book.