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There are almost as many answers to that question as there are novels.Assuming you mean “traditionally publish” (i.e., with a publishing house large or small), you need to:Complete an edited manuscript of your novel that best presents your story idea in an industry-standard manuscript format.Prepare a query letter that briefly explains your story idea, your qualifications for writing it, and where you believe it fits into the marketplace.Prepare a fiction book proposal package, which includes a cover letter that mimics the above query letter, about 30–50 pages of your manuscript, and other materials (for more info, please see my blog series on the subject: (#fictionbookproposal Archives | MDellert-Dot-Com)Research the publishers and agents whom you feel might be interested in publishing or representing a book like yours.Submit your query letter (first and alone) to those publishers and agents. See if they’re interested.For any who express an interest, submit your fiction book proposal package.Wait, hope, pray, keep writing.Build your “author platform,” the social network that will (one hopes) financially support your book when it someday sees publication. Do this not only by creating an engaged audience on social media networks, but by also growing that audience through regular appreances on other people’s platforms (short stories in magazines, poetry on other folk’s blogs, interviews and newspaper stories, etc.).Rinse and repeat, because you will receive rejections. Probably a lot of them. Everyone does.If you mean “self-publishing,” then:I strongly advise you to have or obtain some sort of business degree (preferably one that specializes in the publishing industry) or experience, and deeply study the book publishing market.I strongly advise you to treat your “publishing” as a business, separate and distinct from your “writing,” and to be as brutally critical of your writing as any traditional publisher would be.I strongly advise you to have a significant capital investment set aside and dedicated to funding your self-publishing enterprise (book cover art, professional editorial work, professional book layout and design, professional book review services, publicity events, advertising costs, etc etc etc), just like a traditional publisher does.I strongly advise you to build your author platform before you ever start considering preparing for your book launch (publication day).I strongly advise that you put six months of planning into execution of a 2–3 month long pre-publication marketing and publicity campaign, and follow up publication with another 12 month long post-publication marketing and publicity campaign.And I strongly advise you to be prepared for heart-wrenching disappointment when your sales don’t meet your expectations.Whether you take any of that advice or not, you then create (or find a service that will create for you) a final, publication-ready version of your book in whatever formats you intend to publish (ebooks, various print sizes, shapes, and forms, audiobooks, etc.) and then submit the final product to the distribution channels you believe will offer you the best sales returns and royalty rates (Amazon, Smashwords, etc.).After those distribution channels do whatever quality checks they require, the happy day will come when you will be faced with a button that says, “Publish.”I then strongly advise a healthy dose of scotch whiskey.Then you press the button, and—Poof!—your novel is published.