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Writers can be a strange breed; some are extremely methodical and hide away for many months at a time crafting their creations. Others are able to carry on a normal life and write a few hours a day or when they feel motivated to do so.

When writing a book, start by mentioning the essentials like the title of the book, author’s name and relevant publishing information. Start a preliminary, or draft, bibliography by listing on a separate sheet of paper all your sources. Note down the full title, author, place of publication, publisher, and date of publication for each source.

Choose just the most important things that happen to the main character. Choose a realistic time frame that you can stick to. Provide enough detail to arouse your reader’s interest, but do not retell the whole story. There will be no point in your reader buying the book if they already know how it ends, or which character commits the crime, and so on.

Be prepared to have a “home team” of family and friends to give you critical feedback on your assignments before posting so you don’t reduce your colleagues’ brilliant analyses to spell and grammar checking.

Editors are reluctant to make major changes to your text at this stage-it is too bad if you want to rewrite a passage-but are eager to correct factual errors, typos, problems with images, etc. so check that everything is at it should be, as the next time you see your article will be as offprints or in the journal itself.

Finally, never append a bibliography of works consulted to a review. Finally, keep in mind that this brief piece was about how to write a book that sells, not about how to sell a book you’ve written. The main job of a self publisher is selling the books, writing them is just a necessary business preparation, though hopefully one you enjoy.