This is what I mean. I was a math teacher for many years and I wrote a book called Silly Mistakes in Mathematics. What have you been involved in for some years now. Please write this down. I know of someone who has been actively involved in the children department of her church for many years who wrote a book, How To Train A Teenager In The Way Of God.
You will be able to 'think up' book ideas by the time you get to the end of this guide. But first, you should write down all that you have been involved in for some years now.
Have you done that?
Good.
Now let us go to the next thing you have to do.
Write Book Ideas:
This is how you can discover good book ideas where you can pick your first book title for your first book. You will need to answer some of these questions:
1. What are the issues that have given you much concern in your vocation for many years now? Please use a two or three-word phrase to write these down. For example, in my case, the problem of common errors in mathematics on the part of students was one of the major concerns.
I noticed my students were always making some silly errors whenever it was time to solve questions in some of the foundational topics like BODMAS, Directed Numbers, Division of Decimals and the rest to solve questions at the higher classes.
You can write down as many concerns and issues as possible.
2. What are the specific problems you have solved personally or as a group in your vocation or industry over the years?
3. What are the various ways you have carried out your duties all these years. There are some people who desire books or information products that will describe how you carry out your duties. For example, I wrote a book, Bible Secrets for Effective School Teaching. I was good in the class as a math teacher and I was helped by God to pick up good teaching secrets from the bible that described how I carried out my duties when I was in the classroom teaching math.
4. What major successes have you recorded in your vocation over the years? When you write these, you should not forget to write in front of these successes, the problems you solved.
The Use Of The Internet To Research Book Ideas
You can also use the internet to obtain good book ideas. I will be listing below the various ways you can do this.
Visit and use online keyword research tools (You can search online for 'free online keywords research tools'): Input the main keyword or key phrase that describe your vocation into the keyword box and search for key phrases that are related to your vocation.
With these results you can pick out good ones that you can write down as book ideas. I have used the google adwords keyword research tool for this purpose. You must register for a free google adwords account to have access to this.
There are many others but most of them put limitations into how many key phrases you can obtain from your search results except you subscribe to a premium service. I also use https://kwfinder.com.
The key phrases results you obtained represent the different searches search engine users have made over time. I am sure you know that most people use search engines to search for solutions to their various problems. This is where this tool can be useful to you. You want exactly the phrases they have searched for over time which were meant to solve their problems. These can be great book ideas for you.
Go to online forums that are related to your niche or vocation and look at the various topics of discussions on these forums. Most users of forums come on board to ask questions or deliberate on matters that are giving them problems. You can get lots of ideas in these types of forums. I wrote me best-selling book, You Can Stop Masturbation as a result of such visit to a Christian online forum. I noticed this long thread on the topic and I took the decision to write a book on it which describes how addicts can use their mind resources to put an end to this practice by reading a simple story.
Go to the Amazon search box at https://amazon.com. Amazon has great control over the ebook publishing world. Any author who wants to earn passive income from ebook sales must be on Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP).
If you are selling on this platform, you must learn to use the search box on the website to research keywords and book titles and book projects. When you type the main keywords, the search box will give other variations of search phrases that are used on the platform.
There are many other ways to find book ideas that you can work upon online. I will only stop here and may, in a future book, write a comprehensive book on this topic.