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Publisher:   PageFree Publishing, Inc.
Release Date:  March 2003
ISBN:   1589610733
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Format Reviewed:  Trade paperback
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Genre:   Self-help/writing
Reviewed: 2003
Reviewer:   Janet Elaine Smith
Reviewer Notes:  Author of Dunnottar, Marylebone, Par for the Course, In St. Patrick’s Custody, Recipe for Murder, House Call to the Past, Monday Knight, My Dear Phebe, And They Called Her General Leigh, A Lumberjack Christmas, (soon to be re-released) A Christmas Dream, (soon to be released) Dakota Printer. Writer for 11 magazines (both print and online).

My Book Kit
By Kim D. Blagg 

     It has been said that everyone has one book within themselves. So, if you have always dreamed of writing that book, how do you begin and where do you go once you have the pen and paper (or computer and disk) completed?

     My Book Kit is a very concise, easy-to-follow guide to the new phenomenon of what is known as “print-on-demand” technology. It takes the old self-published idea of paying a printer mega-bucks to run off 1000 copies that you just know will never sell and stashing a case at a time in the trunk of your car, and creates a modern-day manageable way for you to produce your book, whether it is a family history, a collection of poetry, your own personal memoirs or what you really believe will be the next Great American Novel.

My Book Kit includes these chapters, which is the best way to summarize what it contains:

The Blueprints
Getting Started—The Book Has Yet to be Written
Tips for Novelists
On With the Story
The Biz Side of the Project
Preparing for Quality
The Instruction List
Preparing Your Book for Print
Cover Me Beautifully
Choosing Your Publisher
Get Ready, Set, Go!
The Waiting Game
Setting up the Business
Do I Need to Have a Website?
The Baby is Born!
Maximizing Reviews
To Market, to Market, to Make a Big Sale!
On with the Show
Who is My Reader?
Breaking it Down
Imagination Station

     If you have long dreamed of writing a book, and you have told yourself over and over that, “I could write a book at least as good—if not better—than that one,” but you face the mere idea of actually digging in and doing something about it with great fear and trepidation, My Book Kit offers you the solution to your problem.

      Now, the real difficulty comes when you decide that was so much fun that maybe you can do a second one!

     Highly recommended for anyone with “the writing bug.”