If you want to write and publish books, the first step involves developing ideas. You may be a nonfiction writer with just one book idea or with many. However, if you have nonfiction writing goals, your book ideas should support your goals. I have many book ideas. Despite the fact that some of them really excite me, I have put…
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Many of the aspiring nonfiction authors I meet want to write full time. They want their books, and activities related to those books, to earn enough money so they can quit their day jobs. Some want to create new businesses around their books or based upon their books and for these to become new careers. Yet, the majority of these…
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Once upon a time, I didn’t have any nonfiction book ideas. Or so I thought. Now, I have so many, I feel overwhelmed because I can’t figure out how I will ever get them all written. In fact, I’m in the process of revamping my business to make time to write more nonfiction books. When I work with aspiring nonfiction…
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Many of this month’s blog posts and all of the writing prompts have focused on developing article ideas and pitching them to publications. Whether you want to promote your nonfiction books or create a career as a freelance writer, writing articles is an essential skill for nonfiction writers. In additional to writing articles based on your knowledge or on expert…
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How do you go from an unknown writer to earning a full-time wage as a nonfiction author? Today, international bestselling author Tom Corson-Knowles (@JuiceTom) tells us what worked for him. December, 2012 was a big month for me. I had my first $10,000+ month from my nonfiction Kindle ebooks alone, and I was finally starting to feel like I had…
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