Post by mdnoyon on Jan 14, 2024 21:23:40 GMT -7
Jonathan Milligan is an expert who helps professionals achieve more satisfying work. In a newsletter he published “3 questions to ask yourself before starting to create and distribute content”. According to Milligan, before starting to create a blog or open a YouTube channel, you need to ask yourself 3 questions: Do the people I want to reach consume content on this topic? Is it a topic that people have cared about for a consistent period of time (5 years or more)? Do people spend money on this topic to solve a problem or satisfy a desire? These are interesting questions, which almost no one - I bet - asks themselves.
Writing a book is a job , even if it is unpaid; publishing a book means placing a commercial product on the (editorial) market. These are therefore questions that also concern us who write and who want to publish a book or continue to do so. I wanted to re-propose them by adapting them to the Phone Number List editorial context. 1) Do readers read the type of book you wrote? I've heard of authors who would like to publish a book of poetry or an autobiography. Poems don't sell . Even the teacher of the editing course I attended talked about it. Indeed, you added that in the poetry sector it is normal to ask the author for contributions. My collection of macabre poems, written between 1994 and 2008, remains in the limbo of unpublished books. And autobiographies ? Just a few weeks ago I read something about it.
Unless you've done something extraordinary, unique, impressive… no one will be interested in reading a book about your life. Let's take a recent example: Spare (which I will never read) has already sold 3.2 million copies. In Italy the circulation was 150,000 copies and a second one of 100,000 is expected (sources: fanpage.it and ansa.it). Yes, readers, even in Italy, read autobiographies and publishing houses publish them... but those of famous people. A detail that is certainly not negligible. 2) Does the book's topic interest people in recent years? Let's not confuse the topic with the literary genre: Spare belongs to the autobiographical genre, but the topic is the life of Prince Harry.
Writing a book is a job , even if it is unpaid; publishing a book means placing a commercial product on the (editorial) market. These are therefore questions that also concern us who write and who want to publish a book or continue to do so. I wanted to re-propose them by adapting them to the Phone Number List editorial context. 1) Do readers read the type of book you wrote? I've heard of authors who would like to publish a book of poetry or an autobiography. Poems don't sell . Even the teacher of the editing course I attended talked about it. Indeed, you added that in the poetry sector it is normal to ask the author for contributions. My collection of macabre poems, written between 1994 and 2008, remains in the limbo of unpublished books. And autobiographies ? Just a few weeks ago I read something about it.
Unless you've done something extraordinary, unique, impressive… no one will be interested in reading a book about your life. Let's take a recent example: Spare (which I will never read) has already sold 3.2 million copies. In Italy the circulation was 150,000 copies and a second one of 100,000 is expected (sources: fanpage.it and ansa.it). Yes, readers, even in Italy, read autobiographies and publishing houses publish them... but those of famous people. A detail that is certainly not negligible. 2) Does the book's topic interest people in recent years? Let's not confuse the topic with the literary genre: Spare belongs to the autobiographical genre, but the topic is the life of Prince Harry.