When you break the whole thing down, we can say there are 11 steps for becoming a bestselling author.

Following these 11 steps to becoming a bestselling author puts you into the system that you can follow to get that book out of your head and into the world, changing people’s lives and making you buckets of money.

1) Pick your field or industry and your subject. Both of these will come from something you know about and are interested in. Ask yourself what you want to and could help other people with in their lives.

2) Write up a survey question that you’ll e-mail out. Your survey question will allow you to set up a teleseminar based on that topic. This can be a question like, “What is the most important question to you about how to improve your competitiveness in running long distance races?” You’ll get back lots of responses, perhaps hundreds or thousands if your list is large enough already.

3) Next, write your initial title. This may change. Your title is based on what you determine is the #1 point that your audience wants to learn more about. This title should be short and snappy. You’ll also use the other important major points that the audience wants to learn about as bullet points for the back cover of your book and as chapters.

4) Do research for each chapter of the book. You’ll do this by writing or audio-recording all that you know about each bullet that you wrote down, and/or doing additional research if need be on the Internet. Put the information into a separate folder, one dedicated to each chapter.

5) Now make sure your chapters are in the right order, that each chapters sets up the very next one, and that their order causes “flow”.

6) Now you want to hold the teleseminar. This teleseminar will include a question and answer section which will enable you to fine-tune your book and see what you left out or what you need to change. Again, the people are telling you what you are to include in your book. You may even write your entire book based on the transcription of the teleseminar if you don’t already have one written.

7) Now send your material out to an e-class. This e-class is a “book writing boot camp”, and you’re now going to answer questions from people to refine even more your ideas of what you left out of your book or what could be changed. These are people who attended your teleseminar and they are also people whom those people referred you to.

Once you have your material refined, send it off to an editor. Expect to pay about $300 and he’ll take up to one week to get it back to you. When you get it back, review it yourself to make sure it still sounds like “you” and then send it off to a second editor. This one will only cost you about half that the first did because it’s a second editing. This will take up to another week to get back to you.

9) Get the nearly finished book indexed. A good indexer will cost you about $25 and take a couple of days to complete her work. Do NOT use indexing software programs nor let them do that.

10) If you think you need a bibliography, have one done up for about $100. This will take about five days.

11) This actually goes with Step 8: Send off your book cover design notes, images, fonts, colors, and everything else via snail mail (NOT e-mail) to your graphic designer so he can be working on it at the same time as your book is being edited.

Now that you’ve done all that, while you are waiting for the final printed book to be able to be printed, sell the final edited material online as an e-book through affiliate marketing, so you can start making money right away! Here we have the 11 steps for becoming a bestselling author.