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I've written a book, and I would like to submit a book proposal to Leanpub. What should I do?
I've written a book, and I would like to submit a book proposal to Leanpub. What should I do?

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I've written a book, and I would like to submit a book proposal to Leanpub. What should I do?

Leanpub is a self-publishing platform, so there's no need for us to review your work!

You can create a new book on Leanpub any time here:

Here is a full tutorial for writing in our web browser writing mode:

Once you've gone through the tutorial, you can decide how you'd like to proceed, which will depend on how you've written your book.

For example, you may want to stay with our web browser writing mode, and copy and paste from your manuscript, and then edit it to match our plain text formatting markup syntax for books, called Markua. (You can find the Markua manual here: https://leanpub.com/markua/read.)

If your book is already fully-formatted, then you may want to export it as a PDF, and use our Upload writing mode:

You may also choose to write in our GitHub writing mode:

Finally, if you've written your book in Microsoft Word, you can choose our very hands-on and highly curated PublishWord service, where we basically do all the rest of the work it takes to get your book published on Leanpub and Amazon:

Leanpub PublishWord: Publish your book written in Word on Leanpub and Amazon, with Leanpub doing all the work!

If you have any questions or need anything else, please search our Help Center for instant answers to hundreds of questions, or contact the Leanpub team at [email protected], we'd love to hear from you!


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