After what seems like an eternity, I finally got my book “The Art of Clinical Microbiology” published and have got 200 copies printed off for the first edition.

I plan to first of all donate some copies to family, friends and colleagues, and then sell the rest on my website and on Amazon.

Given the rather niche market involved, I doubt it will be a bestseller!

Over the next couple of weeks I will work out how to put a Paypal account onto my website, how to advertise a book on the Internet, and do various other bits and pieces that I have no experience with whatsoever.

I am first and foremost a Clinical Microbiologist, and a bit part blogger and author. I am definitely not a marketer or salesperson!

Oh and I will need to organise a price as well. It won’t be expensive, just enough to cover the printing costs. (You don’t write a microbiology book looking for financial profit… ) And there will of course be a significant discount for subscribers to my website.

So what is next?

The title of my next book will be “The Lean, Mean, Microbiology Machine”, which will of course be about efficient workflow and all the different types of automation that are now available in the clinical microbiology laboratory. Again I don’t expect it to reach the Top 100 Paperbacks, but I do look forward to writing it nevertheless…

Michael