How To Write A Good Book And Get It Published. The one thing you absolutely need to write a book is, of course, an idea. Yes, the book is going to create benefits for you.

The big 5—in the us, hachette book group, harpercollins publishers, macmillan publishers, penguin random house, and simon & schuster—require that authors have agents and many other large publishers do, too. Not every writer chooses to start writing a book with an outline. You will feel resistance at many points during the publishing process.