"How to Write a REAL Book and Get it Published...
AND Make Money"

Imagine being a published author. In today's society, authors earn respect. People place a higher value on books than on tapes, recordings, and seminars. A published book gives you more credibility than anything else. The title of Author, the first part of "authority," propels you to expert status.

First, decide why you want to write a book. Writing a book takes more work than you might first think. Sure, it's easy to whip out articles and put them together into an ebook. You get these every day. (Family Trust Publishing even gives ebooks away free for bonus promotions.) These books prove invaluable for building Internet marketing lists.

On the other hand, you might want to write a book for print for a different reason.

8 Reasons to Write a Book

	1.  Write a Book to Tell Your Story Perhaps you want to write a book to share your unique story. Author Jeanette Fisher's upcoming book tells the Fisher family story about their daughter Sara. 2.   Write a Book to Warn People At the same time, Saving Sara: Love Heals discuses traditional and untraditional medical treatments and points out common seizure drugs that have serious unreported side-effects. You may know facts that the world needs to hear about. A well-published book helps get you on TV and radio shows to spread your message.
	3.   Write a Book to Help People Do you want to share your message to help people overcome specific problems? Breast cancer survivor Lea Yekutiel shares her story to help women. Lea is writing a book that will help people during a medical crisis. Read Lea's article on Laughter. Former emergency room physician, Dr. Ellen Taliaferro explains the rewarding use of expressive writing on the path to optimal health for abuse victims. WellWriting for Health After Trauma and Abuse:  Five WellWriting Ways to Regain Your Health and Life helps people overcome trauma and abuse. Dr. T's Newsletter
Pamela Armstrong's book won "Best Healthcare Book 2005"	4.  Write a Book for Expert Status Many experts write books in their field to get clients or to propel their careers. Real estate agents who write books on real estate investing or how to sell houses get clients and listing contracts. Tell the world that you 're the expert in your field with an award- winning book. Promote yourself into a high-power employment position.   Published authors, like Jeanette Fisher, get teaching positions at universities without a PHD. Jeanette's university textbook, Introduction to Design Psychology opened the door to the University of California.
	5.  Write a Book to Make Money Many speakers write books to sell in the back of the room (BOR). If you're a speaker, you know how hard you work and you deserve to make money for your preparation and energy. Author Jeanette Fisher presents seminars and sell her books in a bundle. Credit Help! Get the Credit You Need to Buy Real Estate was written to help real estate investors get financing for multiple properties. Jeanette found out that ONE book didn't make much money.
	6.  Write a Book to Become Famous TV show host Rachael Ray has written many best sellers. Perhaps your dream is to have your own TV show. A published book can catapult you in the media. Through high-power press releases, guest radio show interviews, and Internet marketing, you can attract attention to make your name a household word.
	7.   Write a Book You Want to Read and No One has Written Author Linore Burkhart wrote Before the Season Ends because she could find no other books on Inspirational Regency. She started a new book genre. Linore also writes a great newsletter. Do you love to read and want to write a story that's never been told? 8.  Tell Us Your Reason Why to Want to Write a Book Email Family Trust Publishing

Your reason to write and publish a book helps you determine the type of book you need. Non-fiction books help you become an expert.

The Truth about How to Write a Book

Did you know, most people only read the first 18 pages of a book? No one likes to read a poorly written book, no matter how good the information or story. You must learn proper grammar and how to write in a strong voice.

In today's busy world, readers like concise information. Avoid long non-fiction books by breaking your information into topics and write a series. A fiction book must move forward and keep the reader on the edge of their seats.

The Truth about Publishing Books

Just because you wrote a book does not mean that you will sell your book. Even if you do manage to get a major publisher, understand that publishers rarely promote their authors or books.

Because it's so difficult for beginning authors to find a publisher, many authors self-publish. Some of these authors pay a publishing company for help. Authors end up with thousands of books unsold in storage. Also, these authors pay a lot for each book copy. Some authors have to pay so much, they only make a few pennies or even lose money selling their books at  Amazon or Barnes and Noble online!

Amazon charges a commission of 55% to sell your book. For this reason, take care that you get a fair amount from your publisher. If you pay a publisher to print your book and then have to buy each book, you may not make anything selling on Amazon. For instance, some "publishers" charge a set up fee of $3,000 to produce your book and then sell it to you at a wholesale price of 50% off retail. That means you pay $3,000 and 5% of sales price to sell your book on Amazon! Of course, many of these publishers distribute directly to Amazon for you and have a royalty program to pay you some time down the road.

Even worse, many authors sign away their rights to these publishing companies and can't print their books with another company.

Know that you don't have to pay too much for your book or sign away your rights.

(Family Trust Publishing does not collect publishing fees from authors. Mission Statement)

The Truth about Making Money Publishing Books

Many authors make more money selling ebooks from their websites than they do selling print books. What's amazing, Internet shoppers love instant gratification and will gladly pay full price or MORE for an ebook. Ebooks cost you nothing to create except time.

Let's break down the cost to produce a book: This is the cost for our latest book, Sell Your Home for Top Dollar--FAST! Design Psychology for Redesign and Home Staging, 2nd edition (3rd print) We added to the original content and improved the book. The book needed to go to print fast to fill an Amazon order. Because cover changes still are in the works with the upcoming companion book, this is a small print of 250 books. The printing company, Sir Speedy in Whittier, California delivers the books to Lake Elsinore for no extra charge. The author, Jeanette Fisher, formats her books and emails them to the printer.

Editing $35 per hour                        $350
Book Cover                                       $350
Express 2 day Printing                     $4.00 each
Total cost per book                          $6.80
$16.47 profit from Amazon =          $4,117.50

The REAL way authors make money is not by selling books. Best sellers do make money, but speaking engagements, teleseminars, coaching, and seminars make many authors wealthy. Think of your book as the stepping stone to launch YOU as the EXPERT in your field.

Let's take a look at how to make more money with Sell Your Home for Top Dollar--FAST. Jeanette presents real estate investing seminars and speaks to groups like the Las Vegas Investing Club with over 100 members. She gets paid for the seminars and sells her books in bundles in the back of the room. With eight real estate books (and two more in production), you can see that Jeanette makes more money from speaking than selling just one book.

Many authors charge for mentoring or coaching and make even more money. You need to decide what you enjoy doing and make a plan to promote yourself, not just your book.