I am in the process of writing a book. In fact, I'm a couple, and from my vantage point, which is one nearly ready to go to a literary agent, and one at the second draft, I realize that this might seem easy for me to say but, publishing a book isn't hard. Or difficult or complex. It's like writing a daily hub. I make the time.

The ultimate goal of course is to publish a book, but each day I set goals and try to work in those goals. I write anywhere between 200-800 words per day. The 200 is a bit low, but that is when I am in the process of editing a draft. By the time I cut parts that don't work out, and correct a few sentences, I usually add about 200 words.

Every day I do this. It is the same with my blog. It's too important to miss too many days, or people who read will be lost to other blogs. I believe in this blog. Same way I believe in publishing my own book.

Not that I can do it alone, I write alone, and I edit as best I can alone, but there is always someone else I go to to read it or to find out what isn't working or is working. It would be hard if I wrote something wonderful and then toss it out.

A the fine art of publishing a book.  It is so much fun to see a book published.  Thw writing is good to, but that not what I'm writing about in this hub!

Yes, once my work is done, there is the fine art of a query letter. I've worked long and hard on mine, even now. Why start a query letter while you're writing, you're busy working towards the goal of publishing a book?

Easy, because if it's a fiction book, you'll need a literary agent. If you want to go it alone, be prepared for 15-100 page contracts. Publishers do this. They tell you who gets what. The publishers will want rights, and so will you.

So a literary agent isn't all that bad. They can make the contract negotiations easy on a writer. I can't and don't have the time to read through a long contract and understand it the way they can. I focus on the hard part, content writing of my books.

The hard part? I know, you are probably thinking the title says publishing a book isn't hard! I said that, but I also said that writing isn't as easy as it looks.  It takes more time to write a good book or article than it does publishing it.

Hands up, how many times do you read in the introduction that the writing took a year or more, and the research took longer?  So what does a year to get it published mean to this writer?  Nothing really the writing was the hard part.

My Own list to make things easier to get a book published:

Have a marketing plan and a business plan.

Have an Awesome Query Letter

Have a great Literary agent

Have an even better editor.

Have passion for what I'm writing about.

Most of all have a sense of humor.

It's really easy to believe that publishing is the hard part, but really I think it is the writing and getting the manuscript to the publisher that is harder.  All you have to do after getting ti to a publisher is follow their instructions and they do the printing of your manuscript.