My Secret Sauce to a $70K Book Launch

[kylerush]

> I started offering my experience as a database consultant to help teams them fix their performance problems.

How much of this did you do and for how long? I’d love to self publish a book, but from your post it sounds like a full time gig. Essentially take off a long time without pay, focus full-time on the book, then pray you make some good money.

[tpetry]

I've been helping devs for 2 years to work better with databases. Switched to full-time consulting this year.

The book took a very long time to create. Everything calculated together about 400 hours. So yes, I couldnt have done this in my free time. I just took the time this year as this year was planned as some kind of programming sabbatical - a do whatever I like thing. That it was such a great success and paid off all my time is just a bonus.

[boundlessdreamz]

Thank you for writing this up. Couple of questions

1. What tools did you use to actually write the book? 2. How did you find the designer? (the landing page is fantastic) 3. Did you write all the landing page copy?

[tpetry]

1. I‘ve used a phpscript for the PDF version (themsaid/ibis on GitHub), pandoc for the ePub and the TailwindUI docs template for the online version

2. I‘ve saw him sharing the progress of redesigning the landing page for a framework I use on Twitter snd immediately reached out

3. Yes, everything is written and refined by myself in countless hours. No AI involved.

[tpetry]

Author here. Didnt expect someone posting my article here so fast after I published it.

Ask me anything you want to know.

[Asadgs12]

Wow that's awesome