How to Sell, Then Write Your Nonfiction Book
How to Sell, Then Write Your Nonfiction Book
From idea to contract to execution, this is the first all-in-one guide for prospective nonfiction writers. How to Sell, Then Write Your Nonfiction Book is uniquely structured to help you sell your ideas or yourself before you invest time and effort in a lengthy book project. This comprehensive reference guide provides specific tips for pitching and writing various nonfiction categories, with suggestions from agents, editors, and published authors. With expert advice on the technical elements of voice and style, useful resource listings, and sample proposals, you will find all the tools necessary to ultimately earn a living from nonfiction writing.
Customer Review: Lots of Helpful Information
Ms. Camenson presents a terrific overview of the nonfiction publishing world in general. More specifically, she outlines the necessary steps to sell your nonfiction book before you actually write it. This is one of the major keys to professional time utilization. Ms. Camenson points out that there’s no point investing a lot of time writing a book that might never sell.
Included in the book are tips for researching ideas, preparing and presenting query letters and book proposals, information on “standard” contracts, and advice on writing your book once you sell it.
As far as the writing advice section goes, there are much better aids, books, and guides for this. But, on the whole, this is an excellent book for the nonfiction writer’s bookshelf.
Customer Review: How to NOT Sell, Then Write Your Nonfiction Book
In terms of “writing” a nonficition book, this book provides sound advice. As for “selling” your nonfiction book, well, that’s an entirely different story altogether. The three sample query letters/proposals the author provides comprise 80+ pages of this only 213-page book. Yet, only one of the three actually SOLD. One is, by the author’s own admission, her only manuscript that NEVER SOLD. The other, one the author thought was so compelling and was sure would be snatched up quickly, was ultimately self-published after being shopped around for years. If you’re seeking rudimentary info on nonfiction publishing then this book passes. If you’re going to model your own proposals after those provided within, however, you’d be better served elsewhere.
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