Write Your First Nonfiction Book: A Primer for Aspiring Authors - Softcover

Corder, Honoree

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1947665278 ISBN 13: 9781947665279

Publisher: Honorée Enterprises Publishing, LLC, 2023

Synopsis

Stop writing the wrong book.

If you have been "writing a book" for two years and you are still on Chapter Three, the problem isn't willpower. It isn't talent. It is architecture. You don't have a template. You don't have a Big Idea sentence. You don't have an emotional map of what writing a first book actually feels like. And that is exactly what this book gives you.

Honorée Corder is the bestselling author of 68 books with over 5 million copies sold in 40 languages, including You Must Write a Book, The Bestselling Book Formula, and Vision to Reality. As executive book producer for more than a decade, she has guided thousands of aspiring authors from blank page to bestseller — among them the co-authors of The Miracle Morning series with Hal Elrod.

Inside, you'll learn:

• The Five Stages every first-time author rides — Excitement, Self-Doubt, Disbelief + Overwhelm, The Aha Moment, and Delight — so you can recognize each one instead of mistaking it for proof you should quit.
• The 8-Chapter Architecture — the chapter-by-chapter template that takes a body of expertise and turns it into a book your reader can describe to a friend in one sentence.
• The Big Idea Formula — "I help (target) do (thing) with/without (differentiator)." The one sentence that decides whether your book is commercial before you write Chapter Two.
• Plotter, Pantser, or Plantser — find your writing temperament and stop trying to write like someone else.
• Optimize and Maximize — how the front matter starts the author-reader relationship and how the back matter turns the book into a business asset.
• The real $15,000 publishing budget — what to invest, where, and why a "book in a weekend" costs you a decade of royalties.
• The Pomodoro daily writing habit — how Honorée ships four-plus books a year on under an hour a day.

For the coach, consultant, executive, or subject-matter expert who has been told "you should write a book" by every member of their orbit for the last 24 months. For the first-time author with 8,000 words across half a dozen Word documents and no idea what is Chapter Two. For the speaker building an authority asset that justifies a 25–50% fee increase.

Your book is a business asset. Stop writing the wrong one.

— ABOUT THIS BOOK —
For: Aspiring nonfiction authors · Coaches · Consultants · Speakers · Subject-matter experts · Executives · First-time authors · Authority-builders
Format: Paperback · eBook
Series role: Front-door primer to The Bestselling Book Formula · You Must Write a Book · You Must Market Your Book · You Must Monetize Your Book
Frameworks: The Five Stages · The 8-Chapter Architecture · The Big Idea Formula · Plotter/Pantser/Plantser · Optimize + Maximize · Four Cornerstones · Pomodoro × 2 daily habit
Author credentials: 68 books · 5M+ copies · 40 languages · TEDx · Empire Builders Mastermind · Hal Elrod's executive book coach
Companion title: Write Your First Nonfiction Book Journal
Comparable Titles: Write a Must-Read (AJ Harper) · Write Your Book in a Flash (Dan Janal) · Published. (Chandler Bolt) · Bird by Bird (Anne Lamott) · On Writing Well (William Zinsser) · The Author Training Manual (Nina Amir)

— Honorée Corder, executive book producer, 68 books · 5M+ copies sold · 40 languages

Edition details

• Publisher: Honorée Enterprises Publishing, LLC
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1947665278
• ISBN 13: 9781947665279
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Marino Dino
• Number of pages: 139