Publishing one nonfiction book typically doesn’t provide you with a ticket to success—at least if you want a career as a nonfiction author or any type of author for that matter. To succeed in the competitive publishing arena, you need a career plan that includes a book—or more than one book—as well as a brand, a website, a promotion plan,…
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Today Kathleen Gage (@KathleenGage) offers advice about book marketing. No matter how you publish, you need to master this task if you want to sell books. “Writing the book is the easy part. Then begins the work.” This is a statement very few authors want to hear, yet those who pay heed to it are the ones who will sell…
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Many writing or publishing experts can advise you on how to write a book and become a published nonfiction author. Fewer authorities can tell you how to succeed as a nonfiction author, but that’s the advice you need most—and it has little to do with writing or publishing. I’m not talking about receiving tips on promoting your book or building…
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Your ability to generate ideas or produce compelling manuscripts represent a small determining factor in whether you will succeed as a nonfiction writer or author. Your success depends in larger part on the possession of the essential personality characteristics necessary for success. Every year it becomes more difficult to succeed as a nonfiction writer. The book publishing industry becomes more…
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Writers write. That’s the adage, right? But sometimes—more often than you care to admit—writers don’t write. You know it’s true. Like me, sometimes when you sit down at your computer to work (which means “write”), you don’t do anything close to producing work. You don’t type a word—except in a Facebook update, a comment on a blog post, or in…
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Photo courtesy of Myvisuals|Fotolia.com Holidays of all types can wreck havoc on a writer’s schedule. Your kids are home from school, your husband doesn’t go to work, and family members descend upon your home—and sleep on the couch in your office. Holidays simply don’t help you write. So how the heck is a writer supposed to work during “vacations” imposed…
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You have exactly 22 days until the end of the year. Have you taken time to look back over the goals you developed in January last year? If not, you’ll never know if you achieved what you set out to accomplish—or if there are still things you need to get done. A quick evaluation of those goals, however, will help…
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Photo courtesy of darkbird|Fotolia.com Too many wanna-be nonfiction authors don’t ever start their books. Fear stops their fingers from touching the keyboard. If you can relate, to achieve your dream of becoming a nonfiction author you must find a way to move through whatever scares you. So what scares you? Success? Failure? The blank computer screen? What Aspiring Writers Fear…
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This is the final post of the 2015 Write Nonfiction in November Challenge (WINFIN), also known as National Nonfiction Writing Month (NaNonFiWriMo). To find out more, click here. To review the resources mentioned by the experts featured this year, click here. Photo courtesy of konradkerker|Fotolia.com As WNFIN comes to an end for another year, you face a new challenge: How…
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