Did You Think About It, Before Writing Your Book?

Reblogged from Savvy Writers & e-Books online:

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There are a couple of hard questions you should ask yourself before writing and publishing a book. Having heard all these stories during the last years about (very few) authors who self-published their books and became famous / rich, might tempt you to follow their path.

90% of all authors I talk do haven't done their research:

how many books of this topic (sometimes even with the same title) are out there already…

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This post contains some good advice about the importance of marketing your work. However the purpose of writing for me at least is pleasure (I love putting fingers to keyboard although it can be frustrating at times). It is important not to get so wrapped up in marketing that you fail to derive pleasure from writing, or the promoting of your work gets in the way of your writing time. Research to ensure that your book does not contain errors is important but the fact someone else has published a book (or many people have released works dealing with the same subject matter) should not put you off writing a book on the same topic. You will, hopefully have unique insights and provided your work isn't reproducing existing material my advice is, go for it and publish that book.