Published my first E book - It was easier than you think

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So I have always wanted to write a book. Actually I have two in the works. One quite serious about life in corporate America. It's been in the hopper since...1991. Guess that will be my big goal to finish that one and get it published. The second one is a Children's book and the writing is going quite well. It is rather simple to write it in Word format and upload it as an E book. The real challenge is I want to have pictures. I actually have them all, so I have to read the tutorial on putting them in. I am so into the writing though, I don't want to squash my creative writing juices by having to read some technical stuff. So once I end the book, then I will add the pictures. The book I published is a short read as it is called. Actually though I packed a lot of information into the minimum pages to get the ideas across. I priced it low and Kindle Unlimited folks can read it for free rather than purchase it. I do get royalties though from pages read. Funny thing is the first one I got out had nothing to do with my education or work experience. It actually came out of a hobby that ended up making me some money. So what is it? I wrote a book on Winning at Casino Slots for the Gaming Challenged. I started casually going to Tribal Casinos with a friend who is extremely good at Keno. I got a bit bored and started playing slots instead of Keno. The bottom line is having a teaching background (and math) I felt all things can be improved with study, practice and investigation. So I did this with slot machines and had some phenomenal results. It was actually at the urging of some of the casino employees who saw this that I wrote out my "secrets" if you will. I decided not to fill up a long book with random comments about odds, how the machines work or how to get comps like most I have seen out there. I stuck with what has worked for me and how I came to the issues. So once I started writing, the book just flowed quite easily. The self publishing site was quite user friendly and off I sent it. You may not get rich writing an E book, but just the satisfaction of seeing your work in print and more so if I help one person with it...that is a great day. If you have dreamed of publishing a book, thanks to a good technical site and a bit of motivation, your dream can be a reality. I wonder how many have thought about it, but haven't done that extra push? It really is easier than you think. Good luck!