Your Best-Earning NonFiction Book Formula, Part 4

ICYMI, read Parts 1 (your avatar), 2 (your formula), and 3 (the four cornerstones) so you're ready for today's installment.

Successful books have an almost predictable rhythm, and I shared the bones of it with you in Part 2. You might be interested to know I've written a book for first-time authors,?Write Your First Nonfiction Book: A Primer for Aspiring Authors, coming in June. I expand on the contents of this email, so if this is of interest to you,?join the advance reader team here.

The example I expanded upon there provides a solid outline you can use as a template for your book:

Front Matter

Introduction

Eight Chapters (this isn't a mandate, just a nice round number you can use as your guide)

• Chapter 1: Encouragement (your reader can create their desired results)
• Chapter 2: Stories and Examples
• Chapter 3: An overview of the process
• Chapter 4: Short Formula in the form of an acronym: overview
• Chapter 5: The Formula-in-action
• Chapter 6: Other tips, tools, resources, and ideas
• Chapter 7: How to get results in the best possible way
• Chapter 8: Call to Action

Back Matter. Your book's Back matter can include Author Notes (I talked about how awesome these can be?here), your bio, and a strong CTA (call-to-action).

Here's an example from my book,?Prosperity for Writers:

• Chapter 1: YOU Can Be a Prosperous Writer!
• Chapter 2: Prosperous Writers Believe They Can!
• Chapter 3: Your Journey to Becoming a Prosperous Writer
• Chapter 4: Get FAME for Prosperity
• Chapter 5: What's Your Money Story?
• Chapter 6: Practical Practices of Prosperous Writers
• Chapter 7: Accelerate Your Success
• Chapter 8: Your Time to be a Prosperous Writer is Now

To show how simple and effective this process is, allow me to outline an entirely new book, even as I write this, using my formula. I'll take?Building a Network in a New City from Scratch?for $200, Alex...

• Chapter 1: Welcome to Your New City!
• Chapter 2: Networking Super Stars Meet One Person at a Time
• Chapter 3: One Year from Now, You Will Know Everyone!
• Chapter 4: Learn how to MEET (Make new friends, Expect the best, Extend your network to others, Together everyone achieves more) for Ultimate Success
• Chapter 5: Become a True Connector
• Chapter 6: The Magic 3: Find, Build, Nuture
• Chapter 7: Each One, Teach One
• Chapter 8: Build Your Network, Starting Today!

Hope this gives you a guide you can use to put pen to paper and outline your book! I'll be back with the next installment in this series next week. You'll get your recap tomorrow, and until we meet again, happy writing!

Honorée Corder | I help professionals write, publish, market, and monetize their books.

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