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How To Write and Publish A Book In 14 Days

Mark Thompson
3 min readAug 26, 2024

It’s easier than you think.

Photo by Pereanu Sebastian on Unsplash

A week ago, I decided to run a challenge in the inner circle: Write a Book In 14 Days.

Seven days later, I am ready to publish. This is entirely down to the system I used.

Here is the system.

The System

Have you noticed the rise and success of book summary sites like Blinkist?

They take well-known non-fiction books and summarise them down to the key points. They can only do this because most books are bloated and written to a specific word count.

“Hi, can you give us 70,000 words on beating procrastination?”

So, instead of writing a 50,000+ word book, we will write a mini book packed full of details and no fluff.

These books will be between 6000 and 8000 words and focus on one topic. We will also make the process as simple as possible.

When I wrote my first book in 2011, the process was awful, and I swore never to write another book. I am now going to write 12 books in 12 months and spend less than 7 days writing each of them.

Day 1. Layout

Sign up for Amazon KDP; this will allow you to publish paperbacks and Kindle versions of your book.

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Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson

Written by Mark Thompson

Veteran Content Marketer, Keeping it Simple and Sharing What Works in my regular newsletter: https://substack.com/@simpleisprofit

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