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    How to Create a High School Graduation Book
    How to Create a High School Graduation Book
    How to Create a High School Graduation Book
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    How to Create a High School Graduation Book

    By Gordon Burgett

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGordon Burgett
    Release dateJun 23, 2011
    ISBN9780982663554
    How to Create a High School Graduation Book
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    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

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Cover Design by Laura Shinn

      Proofreading by Linda Lange

      ISBN 9780982663547 (Bound)

      ISBN 9780982663554 (Digital)

      To contact the author:

      P.O. Box 845, Novato, CA 94948

      (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

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