How I Publish a Book

In a nutshell, here are some of the steps I followed to publish How Traders Achieve Creative Flow.

1. I constantly explore trading (investing) ideas and methods that have strong profit potential. I usually write about some of them in blog posts. My latest book titled How Traders Achieve Creative Flow (to be released next week) is about Flow, Creativity and increasing your value to infinity.
2. In July 2010, I wrote the blog post titled How Traders Achieve Creative Flow. This post generated a ton of traffic. It resonated with traders. I decided to investigate the topic further and push the idea way beyond the scope of the original post.
3. Then I had to determine what would be in it for the readers. Do I have the skills required to write material that will move readers forward?
4. Then I had to determine what would be in it for me. As Jim Altucher said in this post “I’ve lost money on every book I’ve written.” I am not the type to lose money. I must be compensated in one way or another; gaining augmented knowledge, boosting my reputation, etc. Whatever it is.
5. I committed to do the work. Once I commit, I don’t look back.
6. I filled in the ShipIt booklet developed by Seth Godin.
7. I started writing the material in September 2010.
8. While writing the subject I identified two of my Twitter Relationships that could add value to the book. Sean McLaughlin wrote a chapter about minimalism. Renita Kalhorn created the bonus material titled Into the Flow Zone.
9. I spent the month of January proofreading the material.
10. Kristin Walinski, the editor, finalized the book on 2/4/2011.
11. On 2/6/2011, I sent the material to be transferred from a Word document to a Kindle file to be published globally on the Amazon.com publishing platform.
12. Next week I will send the free copy to financial bloggers for review.
13. Then, I will push the content to Amazion.com, two weeks before my Ship it deadline. ;-)

Our next published work will be about spreads. Stay tuned. 

Michael Bigger. Follow me on Twitter and StockTwits.