Want Your Book Published? Don't Give Up

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Martha_Liu]Martha Liu
Every year hundreds of thousands of would be authors dream of having their first book published. Of these, only a relatively few will ever realize their dreams.
But, if you are willing to persevere, things may not be as bleak as you think. Because, each year, well over ninety thousand authors manage to see their book published. Because of the ease of creating electronic files, many of these book are self published as ebooks. But at least fifty thousand of these books go through the traditional publishing system and are put out by traditional publishing houses.
There are many potential benefits to being an author. For one, as people find out you have written a book, you automatically become a celebrity. You may only be a neighborhood celebrity. Or, if you are a professional, you may become a celebrity among your peers.
Having a published book to your name, automatically gives you credibility. It marks you as an expert in your area of interest. This can be especially helpful to you when trying to find a job. You would be amazed how much a published book impresses an employer in a job interview.
Having a book to your name can also increase your income in other ways. If your topic is one of broad general interest, you can make a very lucrative second income from speaking engagements. This helps to raise your profile among the public which, in turn, possibly creates even more avenues of income for you.
There are downsides to being an author as well. In reality, only a very small number of writers manage to sell enough books for it to become a viable income for them. In fact, in most publishing houses, it is the overwhelming sales of a relatively few of the books that actually subsidize the more poorly selling books. And this is why most authors will have a difficult time convincing an author to publish them.
In order to have your book be published, you need to have a salable idea. Not just any idea. But one that will captivate the interest of the audience who you are targeting. Unless you are a well known author, before a publisher will even entertain the idea of publishing a book by you, he will want to be assured that there is a potential group of people interested enough in the topic to be willing to shell out money to find more about it.
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