How to Create a High School Graduation Book
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Shows how, step-by-step, to create and publish an unforgettable gift, A High School Graduation Book, a lifelong keepsake that captures an event, memory, or one-time rite of passage. This is a book to give to your kid, your grandkid, or any kid getting a diploma! It includes a plan, checklist and timetable, finding the write (sic) words, getting permission, picking a free publisher, inserting the photos, creating a free and fast cover, submitting the book to the publisher, letting others know the book exists, and cashing in the royalties. It will probably be a bound book, but you can create an e-book too. The whole thing can cost you about $25.
Gordon Burgett
Gordon Burgett has 46 books and 1700+ published articles in print, has given 2000+ paid speaking presentations, and offers a free monthly newsletter at www.gordonburgett.com/free-reports. He posts at his blog at http://blog.gordonburgett.com twice weekly and discusses publishing, niche marketing, and selling one's writing.
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How to Create a High School Graduation Book - Gordon Burgett
HOW TO CREATE
AN UNFORGETTABLE GIFT:
A HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATION BOOK
A lifelong keepsake that captures an event,
memory, and one-time rite of passage
forever in print in words and photos
by Gordon Burgett
How to Create a High School
Graduation Book
Gordon Burgett
Copyright © 2011 by Gordon Burgett
Published by Communication Unlimited
Publishing at Smashwords
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Cover Design by Laura Shinn
Proofreading by Linda Lange
ISBN 9780982663547 (Bound)
ISBN 9780982663554 (Digital)
To contact the author:
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(800) 563-1454 / www.gordonburgett.com
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. A quick summary: from the idea to the printed pages!
2. What must you do first to give your book form and content?
3. Must you do it alone?
4. A checklist and a timetable are invaluable…
5. Finding the right words to create a fun masterpiece
6. Do you need anybody’s permission?
7. A collective venture?
8. Picking the best free publisher
9. Inserting the photos to match the text
10. Creating a fast, free cover
11. Submitting the book to the publisher
12. Telling others that the book exists
13. Earning book royalties too
14. Why stop with a graduation book?
Special Pages:
The Most Important Steps
Sample Book Text
How the Printed Text Looks
Copyright
Definition of High School
Possible Additional Costs
Sample Layout Page
E-book? Bound book? Or both?
Resources
Index
Introduction
Almost all of us in the United States honor certain capstone events in our lives. Birth, of course (or the rest makes no sense), maybe baptism, high school graduation, marriage, divorce (say some of the ex-married), and death.
Yet none of them seems to linger longer in the memory than high school graduation, probably because it happens just once and takes place at a critical junction in our development.
Do you have a teen (or even a tyke) who will graduate from high school in the near (or far) future? Then why not create a gift for them that they will never forget, lose, or sell—their own high school graduation book!
It won’t be like their school yearbook, if their school has one. That’s a super memento but it is published for the entire class. Of course your child will appear in it, as will friends, the homeroom class, team photos, and scattered shots of the campus, prom, and key events.
I’m proposing a book (bound or an e-book, or both) with only one star—your child! It will be about his or her graduation, captured in print and photos so it can be remembered just as it was, forever. The cast will include friends, family, pet(s), sweetheart, and memories.
The author will be you.
And the publisher will be one of the seven or so ancillary publishers
that understands the publishing so you don’t have to. All you must send them is the text, the digital photos, and a cover.
Don’t worry, it’s easy, fast, and almost free!
Better yet, you can have this book produced once, 12 times, or as many thousands of times as there are folks eager to buy it.
1000 times? Sound nuts? But what if your offspring becomes famous? How many people would buy an original Elvis graduation book if it were readily available today? If that happens, you will even earn a fat royalty from every book sold! (Isn’t it about time you cashed in on the kid?)
The cost of this book is almost as miraculous as the thought of your child paying you back with royalties! To publish the book and even to sell it worldwide won’t cost you a dime. (A slight exaggeration: it will cost you the shipping of the first bound copy back for you to proof. Figure $10-25.)
The digital version is totally free and available within an hour or two after you accept its proof at the website. The bound version takes about 10 days to arrive, after you give your blessing to the proof, plus a few more days to be publicly salable.
How all of that is done is what I will share with you on the pages that follow.
Incidentally, I’m not involved in this publishing process, other than to share the idea and most of the how-to steps on these pages. It’s your book to create.
Why do it? Because it can be the very best kind of one-on-one personal gift you could give to your graduate—unforgettable, kept a lifetime, shared with your grandkids, and their grandkids… You can also have lots of copies made to give to the grandparents, uncles and aunts, family friends, anybody who loves you and the graduate and will treasure such a memory keepsake.
Eager to know more?
You probably have two dozen—or 200—questions to ask. Since I don’t know which questions you’d choose, let me give you several hundred answers as I outline a how-to, step-by-step process that (with patience) will