Nonnymus wrote in :

We have a friend who started experimenting with a casserole-type
dish of chicken livers and onions a while back. Over the past

What your friend wants to do, IMHO, is start small and think big. Leave
the big leagues for down the line.
Find some contests to enter with the dish. In a small town here in
South Georgia they have a "favorite recipes" contest once a year,
probably 90% of the recipes make it into a cookbook that the organizers
publish after the contest has ended. There are prizes, usually cash,
for the Grand Prize, 1st, 2nd, and so on winners.
That way your friend can get a real feel what it is all about and
decide if he/she wishes to continue.
Think about making your own cookbook with other recipes and publishing
it yourself and selling it locally at a Woman's club, Church, etc.
Just a couple of things
I do wish her well and would be overjoyed myself if she struck the
Mother lode with her recipe
BJB