While nonfiction authors might be rightly concerned with traffic to their site (as a part of their platform — overall visibility and reach), novelists, poets, and other creative writers should probably treat their site as a critical tool underpinning career - long marketing and promotion efforts, but not necessarily as an end in itself — unless you're generating content, blogging, or doing something to attract attention, which we're about to discuss.
Novelists can collaborate with others in their niche,
while nonfiction authors should focus on topics.
Novelists can study the speaker line - up for writer and genre conferences,
while nonfiction authors can do the same for industry or topic - related events.
Not exact matches
While I am happy to assist
authors with
nonfiction manuscripts, please note that I do not have a wealth of experience in this area.
This is absolutely critical for
nonfiction authors, and
while an impressive following isn't as important in fiction, we do look to see if the
author knows how to promote their books and has included ideas, statistics, and examples in the book proposal.
While this is geared more toward
nonfiction authors, fiction
authors can use some of the same principles about engaging with people:
While many
nonfiction authors want to use their books as «business cards» to help them gain sales, they can easily upend or suspend their regular marketing efforts and plow all their resources into marketing their books and not their businesses.
While it was written for
nonfiction and fiction
authors alike, we are recommending it primarily for writers of
nonfiction.
A special word to fiction
authors:
While Chris handles social media campaign for both novelists and
nonfiction writers through her social media agency and the book's content applies to both, I think that novelists will struggle to understand how some of the concepts presented in Part 1 will relate to them.
While creative
nonfiction is factual,
authors do have a smidge of wiggle room.
While many fiction
authors believe they have a much harder time than
nonfiction authors blogging or sharing information of interest to potential book fans, this isn't necessarily so.
While much depends on what level of editing your manuscript has already undergone, for most
authors, I recommend seeking a formal copyedit: you send the manuscript to a professional freelance copyeditor, who will focus on style, grammar, and consistency issues — and might possibly do light fact - checking if needed (very useful for
nonfiction).
In my last post, I discussed the four C's of basic story structure and how
nonfiction authors can use them along with other fiction techniques to entertain and engage their readers
while sharing their experiences and message.
Representing fiction and
nonfiction for adults and children alike, BookEnds agents continue to live their dreams
while helping
authors achieve theirs.
While the resulting authority is more important for
nonfiction authors, it's important for novelists, too, especially for brand building.
His first
nonfiction book, How to Be a Successful
Author While Working Full - Time: The Secret to Work / Life Balance is also now available.
Foregoing 35 % of the market was a risk most agents and
authors did not care to take, and
while Kirshbaum eventually landed a string of reasonably well - known
nonfiction authors, including Tim Ferriss and Penny Marshall, the resuts were mixed at best.
While a clever, memorable title is usually a selling point for fiction books,
nonfiction authors are usually better off with a more descriptive title.
Interviewed by Poynter.org yesterday, Lozada talked about his plans, which are focused on «building a digital audience,» by using «
author interviews; short posts that highlight key nuggets from new books; deep dives on trends in
nonfiction,» such as his piece, «The End of Everything» and adds, «
while I know that lots of people use reviews to help them decide which books to buy and read, lots of them also see reviews as a substitute for reading the book.