The Nonfiction Book Publishing Plan: The Professional Guide to Profitable Self-Publishing
The Nonfiction Book Publishing Plan is loaded with proven strategies, real-world examples, and fascinating interviews with successful authors who started from scratch just like you. In this content-rich book, you will learn how to:
•Identify profit opportunities from and around your book
•Set up a legitimate and professional author-publisher business
•Write your manuscript faster than you thought possible
•Avoid mistakes new authors make and get your book published the right way
•Enlist beta readers, get endorsements from well-known authors, and generate book reviews
•Launch your book into the world with as much buzz as possible
As nonfiction authors, publishers, and internet entrepreneurs with over three decades of combined industry experience, we understand your unique goals and challenges. We also have the experience to show you how to produce your nonfiction book in the most professional way possible, while you turn your passion into a profitable business.
Whether you’re writing self-development, business, memoir, how-to, spiritual, narrative, or other nonfiction book, this authoritative guide by experienced industry professionals will provide you with the solutions you need to achieve your publishing goals.
Stephanie Chandler is the author of several books including The Nonfiction Book Marketing Plan. She is the founder and CEO of the Nonfiction Authors Association and the Nonfiction Writers Conference, and a frequent speaker at writers’ conferences and events.
Karl W. Palachuk is the author of several books including Relax, Focus, Succeed. He is also a consultant to IT consultants and a frequent blogger at Relax Focus Succeed and Small Biz Thoughts.
Reviews (78)
VERY comprehensive & useful book!!
This is a very comprehensive book on publishing your nonfiction book! It is packed with many tips that I have never thought of, and it includes useful strategies for every stage of the process (before your write, during, and after writing your book). I found the interviews with successful writers to be especially useful. This is a remarkable and useful book, and I highly recommend it. Please mark if you find my review helpful. Thank you so much!
Required Reading for Nonfiction Authors
While I made my headline about nonfiction authors, I dare to say it is required reading for anyone in the nonfiction book industry. Never has there been such a comprehensive, generous, and easily used book written about this topic. As a ghostwriter/editor/coach for nonfiction authors, part of my work is teaching my clients about the industry. Far too many providers in this field take advantage of ignorance - instead of being transparent about what it takes to make a nonfiction book a success. If you are a future author, beware of any company or individual who offers "rose colored glasses" about what it takes to make a book profitable. It is NOT easy. With this book from Stephanie Chandler, the task is easier. Specific Things I Liked About this Book The book is well organized and thought out. If you already know a lot about nonfiction publishing, you still want to get this book. I guarantee - with no doubt - you will find things you did not know before. Even if you know almost all of it, this carefully structured book is a great resource for to keep on your book shelf for easy reference. However you have your current knowledge organized, I would be willing to bet accessing the information in this book will make the information easier to find. She included personal stories of published authors. When one of them was asked if there is anything the author would do differently in their next book, I was happy to see this statement: "I'd be more cognizant of who my true audience might be." In my work, I find only a few book authors who have done this task well. Believe me when I tell you, identifying your target reader is crucial to book sales and profits from being a book author. I use the handle "profit ready book" in my marketing. Doing this one thing, knowing your target reader, is probably the most important thing an author should do for making money. I could write a book length review of the Nonfiction Book Publishing Plan because I found it so useful. I will end my review with this statement: If you purchase the book to only get the checklists and systems in it, you will save a ton of hassle, time and money. There is no reason why you wouldn't want to purchase this book if you are serious about being a book nonfiction author. Disclosure: I was given an advance copy of this book as a beta reader. However, I also purchased a digital version for my Kindle. Don't let the fact I got a free copy sway your acceptance of my positive review.
I put my highlighter away...
I put my highlighter away because the whole book was turning yellow. This guide to "profitable" self-publishing is just that. It's about making money as an author, as an expert, as a business. It's for authors who want to make money and for businesspeople who want to write a book to promote their businesses. It's inspiring as well as informative with actionable steps you can take to make your book sell. It also includes interviews with successful nonfiction authors so you can see how they did it and follow in their footsteps no matter if you self-publish, are on track to publishing with an agent and a traditional publishing house, or if you're working out a hybrid deal. There are a lot of great ideas in this book and the reader resources are invaluable. They're linked in the Kindle edition so you might want to grab the book in both print and ebook formats.
FULL of practical suggestions and expertise
The Nonfiction Book Publishing Plan took me much longer to read than usual—because I kept stopping to implement the amazing suggestions the authors made. If you are planning to publish in the next 12 months or if you have already published your book—as I have—get this book!!! It will save you time, money, and frustration! Even eighteen months after publishing my book, I found a huge number of ideas that I can implement now. Stephanie and Karl, thank you for sharing your in-depth and timely expertise! Susan J. Mecca, author of “The Gift of Crisis: Finding your best self in the worst of times.” Drsusanmecca.com
A guide to self-publishing
Review of Chandler’s and Palachuk’s "The nonfiction book publishing plan" by Paul F. Ross Considering self-publishing? Chandler’s and Palachuk’s The nonfiction book publishing plan is well worth buying and reading. This reviewer’s publishing experience is publishing scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals of science. That’s “write a report following the style of the journal in which you wish to publish, send the manuscript to the editor, proofread the article the journal intends to publish to make sure it is what you, the author, intend” and has rather little to do with what one learns about self-publishing by a careful reading of Chandler and Palachuk. Chandler and Palachuk offer nineteen chapters. You, the author of your intended self-published work, need the advice and experience offered in every chapter and the eight “author interviews,” the experience of self-publishing as seen by individuals who have done it. As you move toward self-publishing, you must pick a book size … what sizes are available? Do you prepare your manuscript using MS Word? If not that, what? What page size ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Chandler, Stephanie, and Palachuk, Karl W. (2018) 'The nonfiction book publishing plan: The professional guide to profitable self-publishing' Authority Publishing, Gold River CA v + 293 pages ____________________________________________________________________________________________ do you use for your manuscript? What are you going to send to your prospective printer when your manuscript is ready? What price should you put on your book? What will the costs of printing be? What profit can you expect? Are the book orders going to come to you with you putting an address label on an envelope and carrying each envelope to the local post office? How many books should you have printed in the first printing? How will prospective buyers find out that your book is available? What profit can you expect? Are there unhappy surprises awaiting you if you don’t know how to navigate the options? Can your friend walk into his/her local bookstore and order your book? Will buyers be able to order your book through Amazon.com? Reading Chandler and Palachuk, you’ll learn there are many questions you didn’t know need your answers. The authors provide fourteen pages of resources – forty one topics from “advertising” to “writer’s groups and conferences.” Chandler and Palachuk declare their publisher is Authority Publishing in Gold River CA. I think that’s a made-up publisher’s name, a practice they recommend for you. I don’t know who their printer is … although I think they identify their printer and I’ve simply forgotten who it is. I bought my copy through Amazon.com. Don’t try self-publishing without having introduced yourself to the issues by reading Chandler and Palachuk. Bellevue WA USA August 4, 2020 Copyright © 2020 by Paul F. Ross All rights reserved.
Great, Current, Advice on Book Publishing
I wrote a book in 2007 that was published by Wiley Press. It sold pretty well, but I was surprised at two things: 1) how small the royalties on books are; and 2) how little a traditional publisher promotes books (with exceptions for best sellers, etc.). I knew that my next book would be self-published. I'm working on it now and bought The Nonfiction Book Publishing Plan to help me with the technical aspects of self-publishing, finding the right kind of competent editors, understanding copyright and ISBN issues, etc. Pretty much every question I have is answered in this excellent book. I bought the Kindle edition and the number of highlights I've made is extensive. I've looked up some of the resources provided and been impressed with the additional information available. I sent a note to one of the authors who responded to me the very same day with an answer to my question. If you are writing a nonfiction book - and even if it's not your first one, this book will easily pay for itself with the help that it provides!
This book has it all.
Wow. I've read several books on publishing and self-publishing books, but this one is the best. Chandler and Palachuk write from experience. They are both successful self-published authors. What I liked best about this book was the sheer amount of practical advice given. And if they aren't experts in a field like tax law or copyright, they steer you to people who are. While the information can be overwhelming at times, I am glad to have all of it at my fingertips. My calendar is well-marked now with chapters from this book to reread when I get closer to my book launch. This is a book I will reread again and again.
Finally A Book for Non-Fiction Writers
An excellent book for anyone that is or wants to be a non-fiction author. The book is filled with valuable information focused on the publishing process for non-fiction books. Usually writing books focus on fiction and tell you these procedures will also work for non-fiction. This book is precisely the opposite. It says what works for non-fiction. I have never read another book so focused on non-fiction. The well-written book has information that explains how to implement the process if I want. Once read this book is a resource to keep on my bookshelf for future reference.
Excellent, practical advise on writing AND marketing.
I'm an out-of-date published author, one expensive technical book published traditionally 35 years ago with low sales. Now retired, I'm hoping to reinvent a non-fiction writing career. I'm leaning toward self-publishing but need to learn. This book does it! It does a good job on planning, writing and publishing, including important info on cover design, back-cover text (promotional) and using editors & reviewers. E-book publishing is covered. Equally (maybe even more) important are the excellent marketing and business-related chapters including, of course, Amazon. You don't just write a book and expect it to sell. It takes effort. This book tells you how. The two co-authors have published several books and both have related businesses. They speak from practical experience. Interviews with other successful authors included. Wish me well on my new career!
I always like books with practical - applicable strategies
I spent quite some time going through this Kindle book and there are quite a few things I appreciated, one was that this book had applicable an practical strategies. I have been reading Stephanie's books for years now and one thing that she does is give strategies that you can actually go and implement. The second thing that I really liked was chapter 4, which was "Choose a Niche Audience". That's something that I really wanted to learn how to do better because when I release a book, I want to capitalize on the niche audiences and categories on Amazon and this book really went into that. Overall, the book was great and the specifics is where the best parts were.
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