What are ALL the tools you need to write a chess book?

I want to write a chess book however I need to know ALL the tools you need to do this.

I am guessing these are such tools

a) Chessbase. Dont know which version and how much it would cost.

    To make chess diagrams, annotations

b) Chess books with examples to use .  Can only think of informat

c) Word program

d) Please any suggestions would be appreciated.

Don't waste your time, leave it to the Masters & experienced experts, no offence 

Learn your Chess Lessons: https://www.chess.com/lessons &

 Tactics: https://www.chess.com/tactics 

Here's what you need: libre office and a computer at your local library.  Total material cost = $0

No need to be an expert! I'm accruing chess puzzles from my games ,and hope to combine them in a tactics book some day. Sure, maybe only 5 people will read it... doesn't bother me. I think it would be a cool resource for my daughter or, who knows, grandchildren some day to solve puzzles from their dad/gdads games. 

Also, I should point out that really nobody adequately answered the question. Myself included. Mostly because I have the same question.

Good writing and teaching skills would surely be a big help.  Any tools that help in that department would be well worth it.

In principle all you need is:

1) All games / examples in a database in .pgn format

This could be done is SCID or SCIDvsPC. I don't know if the built-in LaTEX export routine is meanwhile working flawless (just saw there is a new release) ...

2) LaTEX with your favorite chess font

As said above you can either try the SCID converter or do the formatting in LaTEX, which is more work.

The Diagrams will look way better with LaTEX compared to copying from Chessbase to Word or something similar

many of the dullest chess books were written by experts.

pencil and paper 

That's already too much. You only need: +=, =+, =, -+, +-.

Here how to write your chess book . . .

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/fun-with-chess/how-to-write-a-chess-story

DENVER

You need to write a bit like Yoda speaks.  You don't say, for example, "Nf3 is better" ; you say "Better is Nf3".

i am currently writing a book on the nimzowitsch defense in hopes of bringing so popularity to my favourite opening in the game!!

yes

Anyone can write a book about anything.  Put it up on Amazon as a Kindle e-book, no publisher approval required.  This actually a great thing for humanity's freedom of expression.  Better that "any ignorant" can publish a writing that languishes in obscurity than for such writings to be dismissed preemptively by some contrived authority with an opinion about what is deserving or not.  The market will decide on its own. 

The world is changing, and for all the annoyances of modern social media and wading through the tidal wave of crap on the internet, the end result in a few generations from now will be that people will gasp in shock at the very notion some entity could decide whether you get to publish something or not.  So, better filtering will be required .  Better for everyone to have a voice and then cull what you want from the whole inclusive pile than to have someone decide for you what you will find worthwhile, ultimately.

People complained about Wikipedia when it first came out...but better to have a world encyclopedia that is actually written by consensus of "the world" than by a small set of English academics with a colonial/imperialist, emotionally repressed viewpoint ala Brittanica .  The days of the military victors writing the history books is finally starting to fade away...

People complain about outsourcing, too...but the only reason outsourcing is occurring in the damaging way that it is is because an economic wall between the first and third world has been suddenly breached (by reduced shipped costs plus the internet allowing businesses to thrive anywhere), and the waters are flooding out of a giant dam that should never have existed to begin with.

P.S. I am not attacking you, just using your post as a springboard for a more general viewpoint.

The original poster asked a serious question and never got a good answer. Someone or maybe multiple people tried to discourage the poster by stating he needed to be an expert. Shame on you. Why bother to post negative responses. I too am trying to write a tactics book which is different from any that I have seen. My problem is attempting to get the diagrams I need onto the page and formatted properly. I have several writing programs but I do not know if I need specialized software for the task. So, I did a google search on writing chess books - and came across this post.

If anyone actually has any helpful advice then, please, post a reply.

Sorry, for quoting myself. But I still think that this is the best way. For a book on tactics you will probably start from positions that are in FEN format.

Meanwhile I looked for other ways to convert PGN or FEN data to LaTEX and you can find some scripts on Github which should do the job (e.g. https://github.com/gladnoise/chesspgn2latex ).