Yes, You Can Publish a Book as a Teenager (Here’s How)

Saesha Kukreja
5 min readJan 25, 2021
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Not to be too cliché, but for as long as I can remember, I have absolutely loved reading and writing. There is nothing I enjoy more than snuggling up in my bed with a good book, inhaling the chapters like nobody’s business. And as horrible as this time has been, it has given me so much more time to catch up on some books that I’ve been meaning to read. That, and this time has also allowed me (and so many others) to become aware of what is going on in the world. I’ve been able to reflect on my own identity, values, and beliefs, and after spending some time thinking about how to share some of my newfound knowledge with others, I embarked on a quest to write a book for my fellow teens spending quarantine at home, which is how the name of my book, ‘Quaranteen’ was born.

After developing the idea of my book last September, I started writing it in November during National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo) which is an annual challenge that pushes authors to write 50,000 words of a novel during the thirty days of November. Although I did end up taking part in the challenge, my book was a bit different because it ended up being much shorter than 50,000 words and I didn’t end up starting to write my book until November 20th because of the format of my book.

Nanowrimo is a really good way to turn a simple idea into a whole book in a short…

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Saesha Kukreja

Biology Major 🔬/ Author of Quaranteen 🖋/ Avid Reader and Bibliophile 📚