Are you one of those who’s a foodie and love trying different recipes? Or are you one of those few, who loves to try (and treat people with) new varieties of dishes or old forgotten grandma/grandpa recipes?
If you are any one of these, you shouldn’t let the old, almost forgotten recipes die away slowly. Or even the modern, healthy, easy to cook preparations should be available for all the residents of the globe to savour!
How would you do that? Simply by jotting down about your (or the lesser known) culinary skills and what you want to tell the food-enthusiasts and then getting a book published.
It is of course that easy! It sounds funny to say this, but creating recipes and writing the book is the easiest part!
The most challenging part is the shooting and re-shooting of food photos, editing of the photos, publishing….! Once the cookbook is printed, you may think that your work is almost done, but there will be still lots to be done, even after the book has been released!”
Make sure to lay these following points on the table to make self-publishing a cook-book– seem a cakewalk.
- Refine your book idea by ensuring it is original, unique and fresh. Your audience should find some value in it, as in- something new. And decide the structure. Some are divided seasonally, depending on the availability of produce. Others divide recipes into meals, sectioning off breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They’re sometimes split up into courses: appetizers, soups, entrées, and desserts. Or it could belong to a certain region/period; oil-free, vegan recipes or healthy cooking recipes. Don’t forget to mention the prep-time.
- Identify your target audience as specifically as possible. For example, if your target is first year students’ easy-to-cookbook, then the parents and relatives could buy the book to gift these students; they are your target audience as well. Research the demographics well. It will come in handy when you make cook–book presentations.
- An ingredient for success is excellent food photography. Else employ an expert cook-book illustrator which will stimulate the hunger-pangs of your audience; only by its view.
- Look for “Food and drink editors” as well as professionals who can help you with all the publishing requirements including marketing &distribution of cook-books such as White Magic Studios.
- Exhibit your culinary skills more exactly through professional book cover designer. They will illustrate and design the cover in such a manner that will have the reader salivating (pun intended) for sure! Else they may rush to prepare the dishes!
- The interior of the book should exhibit the same steam as its cover. Trust a self-publisher, UK for all publishing services such as type-setting, page-layout, formatting, use of photography/illustrations, etc… Trust the book designers, UK to come up with a design which will have your cookbook popping off the shelves.
- Publishers will help you marketing of your books through book-trailers, creating website pages, e-book conversions for Kindle self-publishing. They will also help you in distribution to the biggest platforms as Barnes and Nobles, Amazon publishing services…
Eat, write, sell…