Writing a book

WTF is Paris Hilton doing on your tags here?!! Anyway, there are two kinds of publishing, well maybe three:- If you are any good, you send your script to publishing houses and they take over. If you have done this before and it is not your first novel, or if you have somehow a reputation (a celebrity or someone like Martin Amis, or maybe a journalist even) then you'll have an agent and they will take care o this, hopefully securing best deal by having publishers compete. This is your first (I can tell) so for this type you would have to send out blind to many, likely rejected everywhere. Harsh reality. For your first you may be highly amateur and not so long, then you can just publish online and not in print with sites like writing.com. This secures very very limited readership (usually mainly amateur like you), but does put it online for you to offer to other online people and friends and family. As soon you want it in physical print without a publisher you get two sub options and they both involve you paying to publish. Likely this is vanity publishing. You can either use a site for print on demand, which costs a lot (maybe $40 a copy), but only prints when someone wants to buy. Lulu.com operate such a service, if you want an ISBN they have upfront single fee of about $110 I think and then as above. Or you can cut costs and find a printer to make a print run of however many hundreds you want with costs accordingly - then you have to place and sell them yourself. Costs here drop with volume, but maybe if you shop around and have no colour cover etc then you might achieve around $15 for a few hundred (so you are into spending basically $1,000 and up, plus doing all the DTP, proofreading etc yourself). You could have found all this out yourself, so I doubt you are serious. But good luck. You'll want the Writers and Artists yearbook too - invaluable and I bet you have not got it.

When I was a high school student, I wanted to write a science fiction book. I wrote a little of the beginning. Later due to many reasons I gave it up. Perhaps I will never be a writer. I love China

I have written a book called Beyond Sunsets. It is a book of poetry. The problem I had was after getting published I found out that the publisher is a scam artist, so it was a bad idea to go with them (PublishAmerica). Now I am writing a book: Keeping The Faith: A Journey Through Cancer. I am looking for legitimate publishers for it.

I have never write any book in my life. I guess that it must certainly be quite difficult for a newbie. Regarding the publication of your book, you need to send your scripts in the proper format to an editor. Obviously, it is difficult to find one. First, you need to surf the internet in order to find one who is appropriate for your book. If you still cannot find an editor, you will have to look for an agent who will find the editor on your behalf and when your book is accepted for publication, your agent will obtain a commission. Hope this helps and I wish you good luch with the book.