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How Do I Get Published?

What is a completed manuscript and how do I get mine published?

A completed manuscript is one you yourself have written and completed. It’s the story of your journey through parenthood, your battle with autism, your challenges as a military wife, your conversations with God. It’s a book about any subject dear to you that you have written, labored over and poured your heart into but have just not yet found the right avenue to publish. But it doesn't have to be perfect. We work with authors every day who've put their thoughts to paper but need a little professional assistance to perfect their message. Maybe grammar's not your thing. We have the best proofreading staff around. Perhaps you need some wordsmithing 911. Our editors are your partners throughout the process. That's why we call it co-publishing. Your words and experiences have a profound potential to touch and impact this world; let us help you get the word out.

Process

The process to publish your completed manuscript is fast and easy, and the best part is that you maintain editorial control and pay only for the services you desire! Good Book Publishing offers everything from complete editing by one of our professional editors to simple proofreading and book layout to graphic design and even website construction. We can do everything or we can simply print your manuscript as is. The great part is that you only pay for the services you want to use, which makes this process not only fast, but also affordable.

Depending on the services you desire, publishing your manuscript will take anywhere between four and 12 weeks.

Tips for Writing a Book

Pen_in_Hand Everyone has a story. Whether yours is about your own life or someone else’s, you’ve witnessed or experienced life lessons that others could benefit from hearing about. So many times, potential writers stop at the “idea” of a book because the task at hand – actually composing a full-length book — seems too daunting. These people aren’t “writers,” in the classical sense of the word, and so they don’t take the time to learn to be writers. Instead, they let their ideas, and their very important message, fade away because they just can’t imagine how they might make the time to put that message to paper.

Why a Lasting Legacy Book?

Lasting Legacy Books preserve the oral history in your family. So the day Uncle Bill caught the biggest bass on Lake Erie and the year Grandma Grace single-handedly saved the local Farmers Market, one petition at a time, won’t be lost for future generations.
Lasting Legacy Books introduce your children and grandchildren to the matriarchs and patriarchs of your family – so they’ll get to know the real Great Grandpop, before Alzheimer’s and IVs.

Lasting Legacy Books share the morals and values most important to the older generation of your family through the life experiences of those who developed them. There’s no better learning tool for your children than reading the stories of their ancestors’ successes and failures and the ultimate values that became the most important to them through trial and triumph.
Lasting Legacy Books document a family’s history in the broad scope of human history. Fifty years from now, your children’s grandmother’s experience of September 11, 2001, will be much more personal and powerful than the version they’ll read about in textbooks.