A recent statistic presented at Book Expo America - one of the largest international publishing conferences in the world—is that over 90% of Americans want to write a book. With a staggering statistic like that, how to write a book ranks as high a value as health, happiness and the American Dream for most people. While there is a multitude of reasons why so many want to write a book—perhaps to achieve immortality, to contribute to the world, to pad their own egos, to enhance their own credentials, to express their deepest thoughts—the majority of people will never achieve this universal goal. But why not? Is writing a book harder than, say, brain surgery? It most certainly doesn’t have to be more difficult than brain surgery—and as an author myself who wouldn’t even consider attempting brain surgery, I can attest to that. Writing a book or learning how to be a writer is certainly an enormous accomplishment, but it doesn’t need to be an insurmountable goal. By breaking down the tasks into their component parts and proceeding one step at a time, you too can join the minority within the majority - the few who has achieved what so many only wish for—to write a book.Join me as we embark step by step on this exciting journey on how to write a book.
Stephanie Larkin is the “Head Penguin” of Red Penguin Books, whose mission is to get your book from your computer – or your head! – and into your readers’ hands as quickly and painlessly as possible. She is also the author of SCORE on Social Media! and Write That Book!, and hosts cable television’s Technically Speaking. Red Penguin Books offers both traditional publishing options as well as author-controlled publishing services for writers of many genres, including non-fiction, poetry, memoir, fiction, business, self-help, children’s books and social commentary. Stephanie regularly coaches authors through the often daunting writing process to realize their book goals in a matter of months.