If you love to cook, and you have tons of great recipes, you should consider creating a cookbook. This is a great way to showcase your talent and possibly make money. Thanks to the wide possibilities of the Internet, you can compose and publish your own cookbook, following a few simple steps and without making any prepayment.
Pick your recipe
1. Select a cooking theme. If your talent is related to French cuisine, focus on that. It’s important to choose a single topic so that the book turns out to be coherent and it is easy to promote it.
2. Collect your best recipes. When compiling a cookbook, you will have to edit it yourself and describe only the most delicious dishes. If you yourself cannot edit the book, ask someone from your relatives or friends to choose the best recipes for you.
3. Write an introduction. Tell us about your culinary style, its origin, and how you like it. Your introduction will set the tone for the entire book. If it contains simple and quick recipes, or vice versa, complex and time-consuming, it should be said about this in the introduction.
4. Make your portrait. You need to put your photo on the cover of the cookbook, as many authors do. If you don’t have recently taken good photos, hire a photographer. Let him take you off in the kitchen while cooking, this will give the book credibility.
5. Write your third person biography. Tell your readers about yourself, including basic facts, about how you started cooking, and about your qualifications, if any. Include a funny joke or story in the description to give a biography of personality. A third-person biography looks more professional.
6. Find the right photos in the image bank or take a photo of your finished meals yourself. If you do not have the necessary equipment, and you cannot hire a photographer for this purpose, you can search for suitable photos in the image bank on the Internet. Photos will give the book a visual appeal that inspires your readers to culinary exploits.
7. Register on the free samizdat website and download free book layout software. There are many self-publishing sites with which you can release a book of a completely professional level of quality without making an advance payment. Here, copies of the book are printed to order. Using free software, you can choose the layout, font, and format of the book.
8. Set the retail price for your book. Since self-published sites print copies on order, no prepayment is needed, and you only need to think about the retail price. You will be informed of the cost, which depends on the size of the book and the number of pages, and you will need to add your commission to this amount.