{"id":4258,"date":"2024-10-31T06:16:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T11:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4258"},"modified":"2024-10-31T06:16:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T11:16:36","slug":"notes-on-hungry-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2024\/10\/notes-on-hungry-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on &#8220;Hungry Authors&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thoughts on writing and publishing a non-fiction book. This book strongly recommends having a plan for the business and a plan for the book&#8217;s content.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recently finished &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hungry-Authors-Indispensable-Publishing-Nonfiction\/dp\/1538187329\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2JULLXEJ09DC8&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-5Ud8BmmvunvDTz-HmBfqNul7z0W9Xi5veDWzgpA32DelX6e286HdMVoItgcyKcBLaC5bn0nBt4KTCijxvvw5uvdj5Dj5K4L3FeBZtoVxWEq42cKIa20kBuyptj3ZwTOoFOYebAOOMghpAV8btqZf4R3xizvgm6znR3FN8vIckX-xYmnkl8jPbrZH1AFPRQzKAbZNvSZtOCII1JnyzYu3DwyEK_lioBzzk-2JSD0qZo.IUuVLIqnArpyM8TnO-Dbd38lDVK3S3PVJWED-B2V3ow&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=Hungry+Authors&amp;qid=1730118064&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=hungry+authors%2Cstripbooks%2C342&amp;sr=1-1\">Hungry Authors<\/a>&#8221; by Liz Morrow and Ariel Curry, Rowan and Littlefield, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like the book. It focuses on knowing why you are writing a non-fiction book, knowing who will read it, and how you will meet the needs of the reader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you don&#8217;t like planning and planning in detail and planning in more detail, you won&#8217;t like this book. Plan for the market place. Who will read this book and why will they read it? Focus on those things. The book should serve those readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Know the genre of the book. Know comparable books. Study those things. Write accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Key points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I am writing to a person who fill-in-the-blank.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I can best serve the person who fill-in-the-blank.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then their is the book map and book plan. If you write by the seat of your pants, forget this method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is almost become too mechanical\u2014almost but not quite. I like this book. It helps me focus on the next book and the next half-dozen books which I will probably write. It&#8217;s worth the $25 and the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Thoughts on writing and publishing a non-fiction book. This book strongly recommends having a plan for the business and a plan for the book&#8217;s content. I recently finished &#8220;Hungry Authors&#8221; by Liz Morrow and Ariel Curry, Rowan and Littlefield, 2024. I like the book. It focuses on knowing why you are writing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,293,12,15,97,5],"tags":[154,294,135,137,212,128],"class_list":["post-4258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-concepts","category-design","category-notebook","category-planning","category-writing","tag-communication","tag-concepts","tag-design","tag-notebook","tag-planning","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4259,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions\/4259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}