How to publish your book: for personal money and for someone else's account?

It is not difficult to write a book if you have a creative idea and talent to translate this idea into reality.

But to bring your creativity to the reader, if you do not have a round sum to pay for publishing services, it is much more difficult.

Many novice writers ask: " How to publish your book without spending personal money?"

There are ways and even a few. If you know about them, then the beginning of the creative path will be easy enough and not burdened by insurmountable obstacles.

What do you need to publish your book?

Not every scribble can be considered a book.

Not every person that adds words from bukovok becomes automatically a writer.

If you want to publish your work at someone else's expense, you need to write something really worthwhile, and this is by far not everyone's power.

1. How to write a book that you can publish?

Here are some useful tips for those who want to write a non-personal book that the publisher would want to publish at their own expense:

1. The idea and the theme of the book should be non-personal.

   It's unlikely that you will be able to rethink the traditional love story( he is rich and cruel, she is poor, but kind and beautiful, met, he fell in love and became white and fluffy) so that the publisher is interested in her. Look for new stories.

2. Carefully collect the material.

   If you write about a specific historical era, then study it, so that then readers do not poke you with a nose in a historical discrepancy, confused dates and names.

3. Write fast, but high quality.

   You should not stretch writing a book about modern life for 10 years.
   After such a long time, much of it will cease to be relevant.

4. Look for sources of inspiration.

   Let you write competently, even if you are good at reading and intellect, you can create a good text, but if it is written without inspiration and talent, it is unlikely that such a book will find a response in the hearts of readers.

5. Write interesting.

   You yourself, and probably have repeatedly come across a tedious to the teeth grinding book, which you either trample down to the end, cursing your habit of not abandoning the business you started, or throwing, and not having finished reading.
   The work that you want to publish should not be like that.

2. Preparation of the manuscript for the publication of the book.

Let's say your work is over, and the manuscript is just waiting for someone to want to publish it. Do not hurry to immediately send out your future book on publishing houses. Do the first preparatory work to increase your chances of success.

How to prepare a manuscript to quickly publish a book:

1. Give the manuscript a little time to ripen.

   When you have finished work, forget for a while about your future book( even for a few weeks, or even better - for several months).

   After this time, read your text again. Do you still think that he deserves to be published? If so, then act.

2. Analyze what impression it makes on readers.

   Ask friends, relatives and colleagues to read your text. Then listen to everyone's opinion, just ask them to be honest, point out all the shortcomings and not spare your feelings.

3. Subtract text for errors.

   Publishers provide proofreading services, but if your goal is to print at the expense of the publisher or sponsor, you need to lick the text yourself, saving it from errors and typos.
   Hire an equalizer if you can not do it yourself.

How to publish your book for personal money?

If you are not limited in means, then the easiest way to publish a book is to contact the publisher and pay for their services.

In this case, no one will be interested in the artistic value of the book and whether it will please the readers or not. Nobody will discourage you from this step and put forward your conditions.

The publisher will print anything you want, if you pay it.

From you only need to provide the manuscript( in the electronic Vordian version) and an unlimited amount of money.

It's hard to specifically answer the question of how much it costs to publish your book. It depends on many factors:

1. The number of pages.
2. Circulation - the more it is, the cheaper it will be to cost one copy.
3. Quality of paper: offset paper is more expensive than newspaper, coated - more expensive than offset.
4. Format: for non-standard format you will have to pay more.
5. Covers: soft it or firm.
6. Presence / absence of illustrations.
7. Cities in which the publishing house is located. For example, Kiev or Moscow prices - this is one thing, but in the regions to publish a manuscript is cheaper.
8. Prestigiousness of the publisher itself - are you ready to pay extra for the brand.
9. Availability of additional services, for example, you need a literary editor to correct the text and other things.

For example, take the quotations of the Kiev publishing house "Green dog"( prices are indicated in UAH):

The further the publishing houses are removed from the capital and the smaller the settlement in which it is located, the cheaper you will publish your book there.

You can save a lot if you complete the part of the publishing work yourself, for example, make a layout and make a cover.

3 ways how to publish your book at the expense of the publishing house

In order to release your offspring in the light of a book, you do not need to have a lot of money.

You will be able to publish the manuscript at the expense of the publishing house.

Method number 1: You can publish a book at the expense of the publishing house if you impress the editor

You can publish your book at the expense of the publishing house without any problems if you wrote a really worthwhile work that the readers will like and will be well bought up.

How to check whether you wrote good or bad work?

Show it to the editor of the publishing house.

As you understand, friends and relatives are not very objective critics, but a professional with a trained eye will accurately characterize the prospects of your future book and its interest for the reader.

Subtract the manuscript, prepare it, for example, in pdf-format and send it to the electronic addresses of major publishers.

Here, for example, if you take the publishing house "AST", then this link http: //ast.ru/newauthors/ indicates:

• terms of cooperation for new authors;
• genres in which the publisher is interested at the moment;
• contacts for sending manuscripts, etc.

Similar information is provided to new authors on their official websites by other major publishers in Russia and Ukraine, because they are constantly in search of new talents.

Sometimes, to ensure interest from the editor to his manuscript, it is worth to get acquainted with the representative of the editorial office in an informal atmosphere. That's exactly what happened to Mark.

Mark is a journalist of one of the news sites in the city of Cherkassy( Ukraine).

Being in Kiev for a three-day seminar for journalists, publishing houses and public figures, he got acquainted with the editor of the Ternopil publishing house - Olga.

They talked a lot, and during the conversation Mark said that he wrote a little and several of his stories were even published in collections.

Olga became even more interested when Mark said he was finishing a mystical story and would not mind publishing it, but he does not know how to do it.

Olga gave him her contacts and said to send the manuscript when it's over. Mark did so, the publisher liked the manuscript and they decided to publish it at their own expense

This is literally this weekend at the book festival there will be a presentation of the book, to the publication of which Mark did not spend a single penny of his money.

Method number 2: The book will be published at its own expense by the publishing house if you win the literary contest

. For novice writers who want to publish their manuscript for someone else's account, one must actively participate in various competitions. They are held in a large number of countries every year.

Here, for example, are several contests in which young writers can take part:

No.	Name	Country	Link for detailed information study
1	Coronation of the word	Ukraine	//koronatsiya.com/
2	First love	International	http: //konkursy.pishi.pro/all/ mezhdunarodnyij-literaturnyij-konkurs-pervaya-lyubov.html
3	The book is an alligatorin the "Russian Literary Center"	Russia	http: //konkursy.pishi.pro/all/ kniga-alligat-v-russkij-literaturnyj-czentr.html
4	Debut	Russia	http: //konkursy.pishi.pro/all/ debut.html
5	Contest of the publishing house "Smoloskip"	Ukraine	http: //www.smoloskyp.org.ua/ ftmenu-178 / eftmenu-179.html

But this is not all the list of contests in which I cant participate young authors who want to publish a book for someone else's account.

PS.A more detailed list is available on the links:

• http: //litcentr.in.ua/news/ 1-0-10
• http: //vsekonkursy.ru/? Cat = 20
• http: //grantist.com/contests/ writers
• http://konkursy.pishi.pro

Method # 3: Grant and other methodspublish your book at the expense of the publishing house

There are several other ways to publish your book, albeit not at the expense of the publisher, but not for your money:

1. Grant.

   A grant is a certain amount of money( a kind of charitable contribution) that can be received by state and public organizations, individuals in science, culture, art, literature, etc.

   That is, a novice writer can also get a grant to print his manuscript.

More detailed information on grants in the literature field by links:

• http: //grantist.com/subject/ literatura
• http: //russkiymir.ru/ grants
• http: //www.nlr.ru/prof/reader/metodsovet/ konkursy-i-granty
• http: //www.culture22.ru/ competitions
• https: //biggggidea.com/opportunities/? Category = 1

How to make a million a month?

Sponsor's help.

It's not true that all rich people are greedy. Many of them are ready to share their earnings with those who are less fortunate.

If you find a sponsor ready to publish your book, you can cooperate with the publishing house without personal capital investments.

Sponsors ready to publish your book, you can search:

• in charitable foundations;
• in domestic and foreign large companies;
• among political parties;
• in the ranks of wealthy entrepreneurs in your city, etc.

Crawfadding.

Now on the Internet there are many different sites with which you can raise money for your startup. This is called croweding.

Why can not a book be a startup?

Of course it can!

Here is a list of krautfanding platforms with which you can raise money to publish your book:

• https://planeta.ru
• https: //kickstart.com.ua/ 5-naibolee-populyarnyh-saytov-dlya-sbora-sredstv-na-kraudfandingovoy-osnove

In this video you will find detailed answers to the questions:

how to write and how to correctly publish your book:

If you still can not find a way, how to publish your book at the expense of the publishing house, and personal funds are not enough for this, nothurry to drop your hands. Perhaps very soon you will be rewarded for all the difficulties.

Remember the story of Joanne Rowling, who was denied by 12 publishers, until one editor realized that the Harry Potter story would be a bestseller.