Completely Off Topic... but about the Book Writing process.
Was just thinking about a life experience I've had.
An acquaintance of mine is (was) a professional athlete. Cool guy, plays a lot of golf and we have some common friends and interests.
He was approached to write a book. So as far as I knew, he wrote the book, it was published and I saw it in the book stores, cool huh?
Well, I saw him a few months later and he explained the process and I had NO IDEA how it works.
Firstly, most people REALLY can't write a book.
Publishers know this. So here's what they'll do. An Assistant Editor will make a series of appointments to talk to you, recording the meetings. You'll spend hours on the phone and in person. You'll speak biographically and reflecting on your own emotions and experiences.
The Editor will pick up on your tone, on your emotions and your motivation. They will then assemble a rough draft, a skeleton of a book and you'll meet up again. You'll start to flesh out the thin areas, the areas where the editor wants to expand the story.
Then you'll receive a second draft, printed. You're instructed to use a highlighter and write notes in the margins. After that you'll meet again to discuss your changes, any inaccuracies that exist or memories that may have changed.
Once you have pretty clear consensus on the book, it goes away again for another rewrite, this time with rhetorical flair and flourishes. It gets polished around the edges and made more "interesting".
It also gets "Fact checked"... the "author" may remember an event from a certain year when it was another year, etc.
You'll get a final draft, and as long as there are changes... you'll get subsequent final drafts until the final version is approved.
Just something to think about when you see a politician, actor or athlete that releases a book and you think to yourself, "Can they even write?"
Does ANYONE believe that Trump, Hawley, Cotton, Cruz or Giuliani can write a book?
Note: this is different than a "ghost writer"... this is a part of the publishing business and a regular process.
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About a "book deal"... I mean, that's what they do.
What do you need to do? I don't know. Be an actor, athlete, politician, business icon or something?
Otherwise, you'll have to whip out the notepad, pencil and write the book yourself... 
Me personally... I get grumpy writing reports for work, 40-50 pages max. I CAN NOT imagine how people like Rowling and Martin can create a rich and detailed world in their head and write tens of thousands of pages about it.
Saw an interview with Rowling where she said she knew the ending of the final book before she started to write the first one. I'm an engineer... a Scientist, I'm amazed and in awe of artistic and creative people.
