Picture this: Youâre steadily typing away at your keyboard. The words are flowing, and youâre making great progress on your nonfiction book project. The writing feels effortless, untilâŠyou realize youâre missing some information. You feel you need this key research before you can move on. So, you stop. Maybe you leaf through some papers on your desk, get up and…
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Thereâs a disconcerting moment in a nonfiction writerâs 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, itâs 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 Writerâs 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, âThatâs not just a book. Itâs a system!â âA what?â I asked. Your Nonfiction Book as…
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