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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Richard M. Renneboog, post: 2959289, member: 89693&quot;]I make my living writing. It&#039;s not an easy thing to do, and while there are certainly those out there who write stuff just to &quot;fatten their pocketbook&quot;, as someone put it, I would point out that that is the ENTIRE essence of any business, even coin collecting. You put in an honest day&#039;s work somewhere, perhaps as a cashier in a grocery store, for what? To fatten your pocketbook (assuming there is anything left after the necessaries are paid for). It&#039;s all the same. So, having said that, I would like to offer the OP some advice about writing his book. First of all, shorten your topic list. If you are going to write about coin hunting and prospecting, narrow the field from what is an immensely broad spectrum down to a narrow bandwidth. For one thing, that will give you the leeway to write a comprehensive and, presumably, well-researched piece of work that will be both useful and enjoyable to read, always much better than the scatter-gun logic of a cover-all work. For another, equally important, thing, the narrower approach will allow you to do two things: identify other areas that are of interest within the overall topic area, and write additional works as parts of a series.</p><p>There are two other things I would recommend right off the top of my head. Given your young age and lack of long experience, if I have read the previous posts correctly, consider gearing what you write to your own age group for now, perhaps as a young adult adventure tale in which the protagonist is an avid budding coin collector who knows a few things already but is always learning as (s)he goes. Then, once you have amassed sufficient technical expertise, write a more technical guide for amateur coin collectors based on what you have learned. Second, and I can&#039;t stress this one enough, limit the size of your ebook product. Ebook readers like quick reads, between 50 and 100 pages at most unless they are reading novels. Look into it a bit and you will find that the vast majority of self-help ebooks run between 25 and 50 pages, so use that as a guide when you plan your writing. There&#039;s lots of help out there for writers, and since writing seems to be your goal it will be well worth your time to focus on the craft rather than the topic of your book. Do that, and you should end up with the ebook you want to write.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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