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WRITE A TRANSFORMATIONAL NONFICTION BOOK THAT SOLVES AN URGENT PROBLEM
Why should someone buy your transformational nonfiction book? Because you’re going to solve an urgent problem of theirs. Back when I was an in-house editor at G. P. Putnam’s Sons and HarperCollins, I used to evaluate book proposals (selling tools used to try to get editors like me to give authors book deals). . . .When you write a transformational nonfiction book that solves an urgent problem for readers, you’re promising readers information and strategies.
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As you structure your transformative nonfiction book, whether it’s a self-help book, business book, life lessons book, or something else, here’s a tip: Don’t forget to keep a list of contents at the beginning of the manuscript in all drafts.
The list of contents (no longer called a “table of contents” but just “contents”) belongs at the beginning of your manuscript even before you begin writing chapter one. Why? Because you want to offer a roadmap to where you’re going.
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