The first step is the most important step in publishing and selling your book. You must first think of a solid idea for a book and type it up on your computer. Do yourself a huge favor and type it up in either Microsoft word or PDF format. This will be the best way to transfer your typed book file into a ready to print set up.

• Step 2

  Next, you will need an outlet for publishing your work. In today's world it is way to hard to track down a publisher and get them to even look at your manuscript let alone publish it if this is your first book. That's why i suggest going to www.lulu.com and signing up. It is totally free to sign up an account with them. Now after you have an account you will want to select all the format settings you would like for your book such as hard cover, paper back, size, color, black & white, paper style and so on. After all the basic details have been set up you will need to upload your manuscript file to your lulu.com project. When setting up all the details for your book there will be a section that asks you if you would like a FREE ISBN barcode, you need to select yes. This barcode will allow you to sell your book on amazon.com as well as several other online bookstores and real bookstores.

• Step 3

  Now that you have finished writing your book, found a publishing outlet, and given you a place to start selling it you are officially a publisher author. You can now either sit back and collect a commission every time your book sells on lulu.com and amazon.com or you can buy a few copies yourself and show them to local book stores, friends, library's, and even schools and see if anyone would like to order some extra copies as well.