There’s a disconcerting moment in a nonfiction writer’s life just before beginning on a book project. You want to get started, but you know you need to get organized first. Organization. That can prove a challenging task for the creative person whose desk can tend to be a jumble of papers, sticky notes and books and whose filing cabinets prove…
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Now that you have a nonfiction book idea that will fulfill your purpose, provide value to readers and be unique and necessary in its category, it’s time to flesh that idea out. You need to give your book structure and determine the content you will include in your book. This is an important stage in deciding if your book is…
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Getting your book reviewed by bloggers can push sales skyward fast. For nonfiction authors, finding book bloggers, as such reviewers are often called, can prove more difficult a task than for fiction authors. Today, book publicist Scott Lorenz of Westwind Communications offers a phenomenal resource to help you find book bloggers. Book Bloggers, i.e. people who blog about books, like…
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While I was at the San Francisco Writer’s Conference a week and a half ago, I went to dinner with a colleague and agent Jodie Reins. During the course of our conversation, I happened to mention one of my many book projects. Jody exclaimed, “That’s not just a book. It’s a system!” “A what?” I asked. Your Nonfiction Book as…
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If you want to write a commercial book that stands out in its category—the shelf where you find it in a virtual or physical bookstore, you must develop an idea that is unique and necessary. That means you not only need to provide a book with a high degree of value to readers, as I discussed in the last nonfiction…
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