How to Guarantee You Write a Successful Book
As the number of books published each year increases, the number of people who buy them decreases. The average nonfiction book sells less than 250 copies per year and less than 3,000 copies over its...
View Article12 Ways to Organize Your Book Ideas Before You Start to Write
Many WNFIN participants write a nonfiction book in a month–one reason I’ve chosen this year to also call this event National Nonfiction Writing Month (NaNonFiWriMo). So many nonfiction books get...
View ArticleCan You Tell a Publisher Why You Should Write and Publish Your Book?
Most aspiring authors think they know exactly what their book is about and why someone would want to read it, which means buy it. In truth, they often don’t. Typically, they have just a general idea....
View ArticleDo You and Your Book Have a Purpose That Promises Benefit to Readers?
When you first conceived the idea for your book, you might have believed writing it fulfilled a sense of personal purpose. Or maybe you thought your book had its own purpose to fulfill. That purpose...
View Article8 Reasons You Need a Business Plan for Your Book
Every book needs a business plan. I don’t care if you write nonfiction or fiction, if you plan on self-publishing or traditionally publishing, a business plan helps you produces a book that can succeed...
View ArticleHow to Guarantee You Write a Successful Book
As the number of books published each year increases, the number of people who buy them decreases. The average nonfiction book sells less than 250 copies per year and less than 3,000 copies over its...
View Article12 Ways to Organize Your Book Ideas Before You Start to Write
Many WNFIN participants write a nonfiction book in a month–one reason I’ve chosen this year to also call this event National Nonfiction Writing Month (NaNonFiWriMo). So many nonfiction books get...
View ArticleWhy Freelance Writers Should Become Nonfiction Authors
I always wanted to be a writer and make my living by getting paid for my words. However, I didn’t set out to be an author. I set out to be a magazine journalist. I began my writing career with dreams...
View Article9 Reasons I’ve Decided to Use Scrivener to Write My Nonfiction Books
I recently wrote a post about choosing Scrivener a blogging tool. However, I’ve chosen to use Scrivener as a nonfiction book writing tool a well. I’d like to explain why, especially since much of the...
View ArticleHow to Guarantee You Write a Successful Book
As the number of books published each year increases, the number of people who buy them decreases. The average nonfiction book sells less than 250 copies per year and less than 3,000 copies over its...
View Article12 Ways to Organize Your Book Ideas Before You Start to Write
Many WNFIN participants write a nonfiction book in a month–one reason I’ve chosen this year to also call this event National Nonfiction Writing Month (NaNonFiWriMo). So many nonfiction books get...
View ArticleCan You Tell a Publisher Why You Should Write and Publish Your Book?
This post is a blogged draft excerpt from The Author Training Manual (Writer’s Digest Books, March 2014). Read the previous blogged excerpt, here. Most aspiring authors think they know exactly what...
View ArticleDo You and Your Book Have a Purpose That Promises Benefit to Readers?
This post is a blogged draft excerpt from The Author Training Manual (Writer’s Digest Books, March 2014). Read the previous blogged excerpt, here. When you first conceived the idea for your book, you...
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