How to Publish From Home | Publish your Book

Microsoft word is the best tool available if you want top do publishing your self I have used Microsoft word to publish numerous books and booklets. If you want to start publishing here is what you got to do:

First type up all the content of your book. Microsoft word lets you add images which you can copy and [paste into it as well as add simple designs borders and experiment with fonts. The fonts I would suggest you stick with are verdana, arial, times new roman, Garamond and Georgia..

Second read through your content and make changes and edit the grammar, spelling etc. Word helps by picking out in corrects sentences and spelling and marking them in red or green. This is the work that actually consumes most of your time. In fact if you could get this over with the rest is easy.

Third-Create a book cover the first page on the document can be made into a cover using the drawing and coloring tools in word. E.g. you can select a text and change the font color or add a square shape and fill color in it and write text in attractive font. Please go to Amazon .com and look at books in the same genre as yours and create a simple cover. Mind you,. word has its limits in this area as the tools that can be used are very limited. But until you can afford to hire a graphic designer this would suffice. Similarly create a back cover.

Fourth add the index and headers and footers. Complete the editing.
Now you have an edited formatted document of maybe 40-200 pages with a cover and back cover designed by you. Congratulations.
The nest step is to download pdf006 (from www.pdf995.com) and install the drivers and the PDF converter on your computer. Once you have done this. You can select the print option under file and select pdf995.You will be asked for a place to save the PDF doc .You can save it on the desktop or in a folder.

Your book is now ready you can go to lulu.com or café prss.com and upload your PDF or give this to a Print on demand company and they will print it for you. If you are using lulu or cafepress you do not have to make the cover they have an option which lets you create attractive covers online. Follow these steps and you can become published in no time .Get started now .Remember getting started is 80% of the work.