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idea of the day iconSELF-PUBLISHING: Maybe you've already self-published a book, or had one published the conventional way. You'd like to try self-publishing, perhaps for a second or third time. If your first book was the ultimate guide to a particular subject, aimed at a very specific readership or locality then chances are that you've already filled that market. But is there scope for an update? Have people who bought the book written to you with their own stories or sent further information? Could you expand the book to cover other regions? Could you expand the subject matter and look at a closely related topic? Could you cover a different period in history? If you can say yes to any one of these then you've already got a great idea for your next book - especially if the first one sold well. If not, well at least you know what sort of book is best suited to self-publishing - one that's aimed at a very specific and well defined market. What other subjects can you think of that might meet these criteria? Is there a club or organisation that you're involved with that has a particular interest, not too well-served with guide books, but easily reachable, and who would be likely to buy such a book if one was available? It doesn't even have to be on a subject you're familiar with so long as you're prepared to do plenty of hard work and research. Identifying the market and being able to reach them easily should be your first step.


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Forthcoming
anniversaries of
historic events for you
to write about

(September 2009):

* France surrenders
   Quebec to Britain
* Finnish War ends
* First Pullman sleeping
   cars
* Livingstone discovers
   Lake Malawi
* First Boy Scout rally
* First aircraft pilot to die
* Queen Mary launched
* World War II begins
* Nations declare war
   on Germany
* Berlin Airlift ends
* First trunk phone call
* US introduces food
   stamps
* Luna 2: first spacecraft
   to land on the Moon
* Khrushchev visits USA
* Japanese typhoon kills
   5,000
* First ATM launched
* Gaddafi leads Libya
* Botha becomes
   President of S. Africa
* First solo crossing of    Atlantic by balloon
* UK miners' strike ruled    illegal
* East Germans flee to
   West via Hungary
* de Klerk becomes
   President of S. Africa
* Hurricane Hugo
* IRA bombs Royal
   Marines School of Music
* German parliament
   returns to Reichstag
* Chi-Chi earthquake hits
   Taiwan
* Google launches
   search engine

Birth anniversaries

Samuel Johnson
Elia Kazan
Peter Scott
Ferry Porsche
John V. Dodge
Al Capp
Maureen Connolly
Brian Epstein

Death anniversaries

Rama I, King of Siam
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Clyde Fitch
E. H. Harriman
Russ Columbo
Richard Strauss
Bruce Bairnsfather
Ho Chi Minh
Liam O'Flaherty
Walter Pidgeon
Ferdinand Marcos
George C. Scott


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...you were declared a local hero?

 


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