Sentences with phrase «few nonfiction books»

Biographies (books about a person's life written by someone else), autobiographies or memoirs (books about a person's life written by that person), research - based books (medical textbooks, historical books), and cultural critiques are just a few nonfiction books that benefit from the presence of an appendix.

Not exact matches

In the nonfiction world, books on subjects with a niche market — cooking, nature, hobbies, music, spirituality and travel, to name just a few — fare best.

Although there are thousands of books that address lofty topics like creativity, plot outlines, and the craft of different types of writing, there are relatively few books devoted to helping authors create a system of time management habits and practices to write their books — regardless of the types of fiction or nonfiction book you want to write.

But here are a few of the nonfiction books I've read (or am in the course of reading), and enjoyed recently, that weren't directly related to research:

* All of our nonfiction editors are currently booked for the next few months.

As an indie author of nine titles, a mix of fiction and nonfiction, and as one who has shepherded more than thirty other books to publication, I've been around the block a few times.

You could be just a few days away from completing your best - selling nonfiction book.

LEARNING WITH VERSE Over the last few years I have particularly liked books that combine poetry with nonfiction, such as Tracie Vaughn Zimmer's Cousins of Clouds: Elephant Poems.

I covered the topic extensively (though mostly for nonfiction, as Livia said) in Get Known Before the Book Deal and in a few other articles here and there for WD.

Even nonfiction authors who can be passionately committed to their mission or message can be challenged to condense their book's concept into a few words.

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In 1999, I was reading a nonfiction book on runaway slaves and came across a few lines and an endnote about an Antebellum divorce case from the Circuit Court in Talladega, Alabama (the city's lovely courthouse, built in 1836 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is still in use and is the oldest working courthouse in the U.S.).

At a gala ceremony in New York City, the 67th National Book Awards gathered many of literature's leading lights in celebration of just a few authors: Colson Whitehead, who won in the fiction category; Ibram X. Kendi, in nonfiction; Daniel Borzutzky, in poetry; and Rep. John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell in young people's literature.

There are already far too few publishers willing to invest in nonfiction authors, who may require years to research and write histories, biographies, and other works, and in novelists, who may need the help of a substantial publisher to effectively market their books to readers.»

That means aspiring nonfiction authors must ensure they write a book deserving one of the few open spots on bookstore shelves.

There seem to be too few organizations dedicated to nonfiction authors, so if you write articles and nonfiction books, this organization is well worth joining.

I have a few authors throughout the states who talk about and recommend my books for authors when they are promoting their own fiction or nonfiction books.

Connie Dowell presents Yeah, Verily: Beware These Often Confused Words posted at Book Echoes Media, saying, «There are a few word mix - ups I see frequently that are particular to dialogue writing or conversational - style nonfiction.

Am nowhere near your numbers, but I did run a free book listing for my nonfiction memoir CONTACT a few months ago with Bookbub and got about 12,000 downloads which I thought was pretty amazing as not everyone wants to read a memoir of a soldier and combat etc...... I have run it free a few times before on the FREE TO LIST sites you mention and never did more than about 3000 downloads each time so that definitely proves the value of Bookbub in terms of sheer numbers.