publishing my book Help!

I am looking into publishing companies. I am looking at westbow which is the child of Thomas nelson the largest christian publishing company in the world. there prices are a little heavey but I feel its well worth it. do you guys have any ideas of haw i can get the money I need to go forward with my book project.

the title of my book is called the book of Sophia " The Orphan who searched for her heavenly father in an unorthodox way because she believed in the unorthodox promises"

How do you run to God when your father /Pastor is the one who sexually abused you

My book speaks of relationship with God healing and deliverance.

The book aslo hits on subjects that most preachers and churches seem to ignore or not deal with but yes these are the subjects that present the most problems in the church.

its a message that is needed.. help me with some ideas to get the money so I can have the best marketing team by my side..

Okay this is weird but I was reading your post and this banner popped up on the DXP site http://www.tatepublishing.com/?gclid=CMi5-qCm958CFQVinAodP02HYQ, not sure that's what your looking for but if your book is good you should not have to pay anyone to market/publish your book, research and find a firm that believes in your product and will do the work for you. I'm not co-signing on Tate Publishing but I saw DXP is using one of it's banners and it's a Christian based publishing company so I linked it. You don't have to necessarily go with a Christian based publishing company, you just have to be diligent in finding a company that believes in your product and is willing to dish out the money to market and promote your product.

http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/publishbook/publishbook.html<BR>
1. KNOW HOW THE PROCESS WORKS

The first rule of getting a book published is to avoid writing a book. Whoa, what the hell are we talking about? Yes, it's very counterintuitive, but the main goal of anyone who wants to publish a book is to land a literary agent, before spending years writing something nobody wants to read. (Of course, if you're reading this SYW because you've already churned out a work of genius, don't fear; go directly to 2. Prepare a proposal.) Let us explain: the literary world is a very closed community and the people who green light publication accept books only through very specific channels. Think about it: nobody could ever handle reading the mountains of spew that aspiring authors churn out all the time, so the system has established filters to weed out most of the garbage. You need to learn what the filters are and how to get through them. Namely, agents.

Agents -- what do they do, exactly?

An agent is a separate individual who performs much of this filtering process. You most certainly don't want to send a manuscript directly to a publishing house. They won't read it. They consider pieces only if they come recommended by an agent. Agents read manuscripts, or ideas for manuscripts (known as queries and proposals), and decide whether a project has promise. If it does, the agent signs a contract with the author, promising to use best efforts to get the thing sold to a publishing house, in exchange for around 15% of the deal. Editors at publishing houses would much rather deal only with agents who have a good track record for presenting quality ideas, so agents can be very choosy about who they sign. Landing an agent, therefore, is the whole idea of the game. Once you have one of those on your side, she will work incredibly hard to get your idea sold.

Agents, in turn, don't particularly like reading 300-page manuscripts either. In fact, they don't like reading much more than 1 page. So the first step to getting an agent to even pay attention to you is to send them a query letter. A query letter is essentially a short summary of your idea, who you are, and why you are qualified to write this project.

But you say, "Wait. I don't wanna give up fifteen percent of my book-deal-to-be. That stinks." Can you proceed without an agent? Don't even try. And are they worth the cash? You bet: 85% of zero is nada, and you got nada without an agent there, Chekhov. Don't worry, though, there are thousands of literary agents all across America and a few excellent guides that give you tons of information about what they like to represent and how to contact them. The very best is the Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents, 1999-2000 : Who They Are! What They Want! And How to Win Them Over! by Jeff Herman. But first you need to know what agents want.

http://www.writing-world.com/publish/pay.shtml Should You Pay for Publication?

or you could try self publishing. google it. then sell your book online via a website dedicated to the book, amazon, market it to local churches, etc

There are ebooks too, that's another form of self publishing were people can just get online and pay a fee to read your book, if you don't want your ebook floating around you can password protect it.

thanks for the info I really appreciate your response....

Yeah, you can always publish your book through Ebooking. Good Luck with that 🙂 Hopefully you'll get a lot of attention for your written work!! It would be pretty awesome for you to get a hardbook instead though, wouldn't it? Good luck.