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How to Come Up with Your Book Topic

How to Come Up with Your Book Topic

Your books topic can determine whether it will succeed or fail

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J.R. Heimbigner
Oct 03, 2022
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If your book topic sucks, so will your book.

What do I mean by that? Let’s put it this way. Your topic needs to appeal to someone. If it doesn’t, then it probably won’t sell. 

You can write a topic that appeals to you, but that may not be enough for your first book, especially if you don’t have an audience yet.

So, you need to have an excellent topic for your book.

How do you come up with a great book topic?

There are three common ways to come up with a good book topic, though one of them is probably the best way to do it. But we will get into that shortly because you will have heard of these other ones, which are very tempting.

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