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Tip # 2 Think about your marketing plan ahead of time. If you do not have a network, build one as you write the book. Use social media and personal networking to create a platform to launch your book. Ideas will come to you if you use an affirmation such as, "I am open to inspired ideas about how to make my book be successful." Tip # 3 I was amazed, inspired, and delighted as I read the submission requirements of various publishers. It made me wish I had read them before I wrote the book. Doing so might have helped me as I wrote the book. It would have been easy to incorporate some of the things I read about to make the book more attractive to both a wider spectrum of publishers and readers. Some publishers do not want the entire manuscript submitted. They want only the first 50 pages or the first three chapters and an outline of the entire book. I did not write my book from an outline. This book was an inspired outpouring so I had to create an outline after the fact. 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