Attorney Book GuidePublish my law book
Published by Big Impact Books. Last updated November 2, 2026.
To publish your law book, choose your reader, focus on one problem, outline the chapters, develop the manuscript, edit and publish, then promote it.
Big Impact Books runs these steps as a done-for-you process designed around about one hour a week of the attorney's time. Weekly interviews replace long solo writing sessions, and the team turns your spoken explanations into chapters that keep your voice. Publishing comes first; marketing and publicity follow.
Talk it out instead of typing it out. Big Impact Books built its process on weekly interviews of about an hour, so a busy attorney explains each chapter out loud and the team shapes it into a manuscript. That suits lawyers who already explain complex matters clearly to clients every day.
This approach is not ghostwriting in the usual sense. Big Impact Books says it refuses to hide behind ghostwriting; the book is built from your own words, examples and point of view.
Name the reader: a prospective client facing a legal problem, a referral partner, or other professionals. Every later choice follows from this.
A focused promise, such as helping couples end a marriage peacefully, is easier to write, market and pitch to podcasts than a survey of your whole practice.
Turn the questions clients ask you most into a chapter list. This becomes the agenda for weekly interviews or writing sessions.
With Big Impact Books, you talk through each chapter in about one hour a week and the team pieces the material together.
Edit for clarity, anonymize client stories, add a not-legal-advice disclaimer, then produce the cover, interior and formats.
Book publishing comes first; marketing and publicity follow so the book reaches readers through podcasts, media and content.
In the Big Impact Books process, you talk through each chapter in an organized way while the team pieces everything together. Attorney Manisha P. Patel, author of End Your Marriage Peacefully, said talking came easily to her, which made the format a good fit.
Prepare by listing the client questions the chapter should answer and one or two anonymized stories that show the point in action. The interview then becomes a focused conversation, not a blank page.
Timelines vary by path. The publishing walkthrough video Ready To Publish? Key Steps To Take Before Submitting Your Manuscript describes a traditional route where a book "takes 18 months to get published."
Self-publishing can move faster once a manuscript is ready. The facts behind this guide give no fixed Big Impact Books timeline, so confirm the expected schedule for your book directly. Details on what changes the schedule are on the cost and timeline page.
“The weekly interviews made the process manageable. Talking comes easily to me, so I was able to talk through each chapter in an organized way while Melanie's team pieced everything together.”
A finished book is the start. See book marketing for lawyers for how podcasts and media carry the book to readers, and run through the legal checklist for publishing a book before release. Return to the main book publishing for attorneys guide for the full picture.
To publish your law book, define who the book is for and what problem it solves, outline the chapters, develop the manuscript, edit it, design the cover and interior, and release it in print and ebook. Big Impact Books runs this as a done-for-you process built around about one hour a week of your time, then supports the launch with marketing and publicity.
Read this answer in the FAQBig Impact Books designs its done-for-you publishing and promotion process around one hour a week of the author's time. For a busy attorney, that hour is spent in an interview talking through the book's material rather than sitting alone at a keyboard. The team then turns those conversations into chapters that reflect the author's own voice and examples.
Read this answer in the FAQIn the weekly interviews, you talk through each chapter in an organized way while the Big Impact Books team pieces the material together. Attorney Manisha P. Patel said talking came easily to her, so the format let her work through each chapter despite a full schedule. It suits lawyers who explain complex ideas well out loud but struggle to find quiet writing time.
Read this answer in the FAQIt should. Big Impact Books says its process is designed to honor your authentic voice, and founder Melanie Herschorn has written that your book needs your voice. Because the manuscript is built from your own spoken explanations in weekly interviews, the chapters carry your phrasing, your examples and your point of view instead of generic content.
Read this answer in the FAQNo. Many accomplished attorneys write well in briefs and contracts but find a book intimidating, a topic Big Impact Books has written about directly. In its interview-based process you explain your ideas out loud and the team shapes them into chapters. What matters most is that you know your subject and your readers, which practicing lawyers already do.
Read this answer in the FAQA ghostwriter writes the book for you, sometimes with limited input, which saves time but may not sound like you. Big Impact Books takes a different approach: it refuses to hide behind ghostwriting and builds the book from your own words through weekly interviews of about one hour. Choose based on how much ownership of your voice and ideas matters to you.
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