Sell Your Nonfiction Book

The personal experience examines something in your life with wide relevance to others, for instance, coping with a rare or extremely common burden, or responding to a very ordinary or very bizarre experience.

The personality profile

The travel article

If you’re planning a book on how to sell your own home, a series of service articles on different parts of the process could appeal to many readers.

Finding Ideas
Here are some examples of types of articles and suggestions on how to find ideas for them.

This will widen your potential book market still more, and the honorariums may be substantial. (Your keynote speech or panel presentation may also be a good way to develop material for another chapter or two.)

Even more agreeably, when you develop a reputation among your readers as an entertaining authority, you may be invited to address meetings and conferences for the profession

especially if you show you can keep producing them to a deadline.

Suppose, for example, you’re writing a history of your town. The local weekly is likely to grab everything you offer it, especially if you supply it in well-organized articles of 500 to 1,200 words.

Other markets, however, are quite open to new writers with something special to say — as long as it doesn’t cost them anything