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Selling your stories is a good way to earn some extra cash in time for the holidays. Short stories can be interesting, fun, exciting or informative. Most short stories will be from 300 words to 1000 words in length. If you find that you really enjoy writing stories, you may want to branch out into writing a full-length novel.

You don’t necessarily need a publisher for your story. Self-publishing is an option that can be very inexpensive and satisfying. If you have a Twitter or Facebook account, getting word out that you have a marketable story can be fairly easy. Getting an ezine ad is another fast and inexpensive advertising method.

If you really want to get your story ready for sale very fast, Lulu.com has a free service where writers can download templates and upload a completed transcript. Longer stories are usually from 3000 to 7000 words. The longer length stories can be put into a book format. A download of the ebook can be free or paid, whichever you choose. Writers also have the option of creating a book cover with your own digital pictures. Lulu also has the option of creating cute little paperback novelettes.

If you don’t write stories, how about cooking? If you’re good at it, perhaps gathering some recipes that you’d like to share would be just the thing to get your cookbook started. A tiny little cookbook could be just the present someone wishes to have as a holiday present.

Lifetips.com hires freelance writers to write the Tips Book Series. If you are expert in some area, you could write 101 tips, with 2 tips per page. LifeTips provides the book covers, though, and you’d have absolutely no cost in getting your book published and sold on Amazon.com.