eBook Writing - Questions to Ask Before Writing Your eBook

Before you start writing your eBook, you need to ask yourself the following questions to help identify the reasons as to why you are writing, and if you are ready to take on the challenge of self publishing.

This self-analysis will also provide you with important information that will help save you time, money and prevent you from making some vital mistakes along the way.

Do You Have the Answers to These Questions:

1. Is your primary purpose to make money?

2. Do you want to promote your website or existing business?

3. To become an acclaimed author?

4. Perhaps it is to attract a major publisher for a printed version of your work

5. Are you writing just to have fun?

6. Are you using it to promote yourself or another product?

7. Are you using it as a marketing tool to bring quality traffic to your website?

8. Are you writing to enhance your reputation?

9. Have you completed preliminary research to see if there is a market for your eBook?

10. What is your niche?

11. How will your eBook be unique?

12. Do you have the time to devote to writing your eBook?

13. What will be the title of your eBook and will it have a subtitle?

14. Will you be the only author or will there be other co-authors?

15. Will you also utilise POD and publish a print version of your eBook?

16. Will your eBook contain graphics, pictures or charts?

17. How many pages will your eBook be?

18. What file formats will your eBook be available?

19. What type of devices will your eBook be able to be read on?

20. Will you provide sample chapters of your eBook?

21. Will you include a bibliography about yourself in the eBook?

22. Who will be your eBook's target audience?

23. Does your eBook satisfy the need or want of your target audience?

24. Will you offer your prospects a guarantee?

25. Who will design your eBook cover?

26. Will you turn the eBook into other information products like videos, audio books?

27. What type of payments will you accept for the eBook?

eBook planning and research is one of our key components to becoming a successfully self published author.

For many first-time writers they often neglect this very important stage and as a result find out the hard way later on when they need to come back and identify their target audience.

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