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Finding Your Writing Nonfiction Niche and Understanding Why This is So Important Why specialize? It's a question many nonfiction authors face. Author Rick Lauber explains how focusing in on one subject can help your writing create a bigger impactâand even widen your audience. Author: Apr 29, 2021 When nervously venturing into the world of freelance writing many years ago, I began by accepting any story assignment … I was pleased to write, see my name in print, and collect tear sheets of my published work. By casting my net wide, I became a generalist and thought that my being able and ...
Bonnie Marcus: On Being Vulnerable in Nonfiction Award-winning entrepreneur and executive coach Bonnie Marcus shares what it was like to write her prescriptive nonfiction book Not Done Yet. Author: Bonnie Marcus, M.Ed., is an award-winning entrepreneur, Forbes contributing writer, and executive coach, who assists professional women to successfully navigate the workplace and position and promote themselves to advance their careers. With 20+ years of sales and management experience, her extensive business background includes CEO of a ServiceMaster company and VP of Sales at Medical Staffing Ne...
6 Tools for Writing Nonfiction That Breathes Nonfiction author Liz Heinecke gives her top 6 tips for crafting a nonfiction book that will really capture your subject. Author: Feb 27, 2021 Although I love good narrative nonfiction, if given the choice, I generally reach for the novel on my nightstand. From the moment I decided to write a book about the intersecting lives of Marie Curie and Loie Fuller, my head was filled with visions of Loie swirling on a stage and Marie waltzing through a radium-lit laboratory. To construct my colorful idea for the narrative while accurately relating events i...