How A Book Writing Coach Helps You Plan Your Nonfiction Book

Planning is the first and most important step in the activity of verbal creation a nonfiction book. For many authors, it is also the most difficult because it forces you to answer the questions you must address before you begin writing. Strangely, one of the toughest is simply “What is my book about?” If you can’t explain your subject in one sentence, you may not have a innocence content of your message.

A book coach asks all the abstraction questions during the planning phase and helps you structure the answers in a across-the-board book proposal. If you were to submit your book to a publisher, a message would be a requirement. But, even if you prefer to “self-publish,” verbal creation a message organizes your thoughts and helps you plan every aspect of your nonfiction book. A message is your higher cognitive process document - a activity in progress. It is much more than a mere exercise because almost every language unit of it will become a part of the book later on.

While the form of the message may vary and the answers may be in different order, it must answer the following questions:

1. Why are you verbal creation this book?

2. What is your book about (in one or two sentences)?

3. Why is this an appropriate and timely topic?

4. Who are your target readers? How will they benefit? How will you reach them?

5. How big is the market? (How many books can you sell?)

6. What else is out there on this subject?

7. How is this book unique/special/important?

8. Why are you the best-qualified person to write this book?

9. How much control do you wish to exercise during the publishing process?

10. How will you help to support your book?

Most often, a book message is arranged in these programming language categories:

* Concept Statement (a precise brief statement and sales piece that determines whether an editor continues reading or stops)

* About the Book (a statement of all the commissioned military officer sections of the proposal)

* About the Author (your bio, focused on your fitness to write this book)

* About the Market (what potential readers are reading, watching, and doing)

* About the Competition (what is accessible and how your book is different and better)

* Production Details (your preferences in terms of size, appearance, illustrations, type, paper, color, etc.)

* About Promotion (your specific plans for getting the language unit out to various audiences)

* Table of Contents (front and back matter and section titles)

* Section Summaries (one paragraph encapsulations of each chapter)

* Sample Chapters (1-3 completed chapters)

All of this may be to be pretty straightforward, but many new authors find the message activity intimidating. A book coach takes the mystery and confusion out of verbal creation a book proposal, which, in turn, makes the verbal creation goes much more smoothly.

Bobbi Linkemer is a book verbal creation coach, editor, and ghostwriter. She is also the author of 14 books. Learn how to get her “How to Write a Nonfiction Book Proposal” eBook — which includes directions for get a sample book message — free by visiting her Website at:

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