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My answer to how I wrote a book, got it published, and became a bestseller
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My answer to how I wrote a book, got it published, and became a bestseller

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Wilko van de Kamp
Jun 15, 2016
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The only thing more fun than cashing in monthly royalty cheques from my publisher is teaching others how to do the same. When my first book came out a lot of people asked me how I did it: how did I go from writing an “entire” book, to finding a publishing home for it and turning it into a real, printed book. When that book turned into a number one bestseller, even more people asked that curious question: “how did you do it?”

A lot of people have the dream of “some day” writing a book – but never get to it. They think they’re not able to do it, or will never create something “good enough” to get it published. So they never start. Yet some experts say everyone has a book inside of them. I took that, and the questions people asked me about writing books and getting them published, to heart – and decided to create something to share my experience in the hope it would help some of them on their journey of turning a book dream into a reality.

When I launched the original version of my Write a…

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