Everyone has a book in them? Here's the path to getting it published  

As  Richard Fitzpatrick releases his third book, he explains how he brought his own idea to fruition, and how the publishing industry works

Richard Fitzpatrick with Italian football great Sandro Mazzola, when the Irish author interviewed him for his Helenio Herrera biography, entitled HH. 

As everyone knows, there are basically two kinds of books: fiction and nonfiction. The first kind are fashioned from the imaginations of great novelists like, say, Claire Keegan. They can be written slowly or quickly. Jack Kerouac wrote the first draft of On the Road in an amphetamine-fuelled three-week frenzy. John Banville takes three to five years to write his great literary novels.

Nonfiction books are plodding affairs, built more on research. Into this category come sports books; popular science reads; biographies and memoirs; travel books, which will take in the writer’s research on the culture and history of the place being traversed; self-help and motivational books; cookbooks; true crime and so on. This is the category I fall into.