Nonfiction books
Planning, researching, drafting and launching nonfiction books: outlines, proposals, chapters, narrative nonfiction, indexes and author launches.
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- Build a back-of-book index
Builds a back-of-book index from page-numbered text with main headings, subheadings, cross-references and consistent terms to the chosen style, and flags the terms that need an editor's decision.
- Draft a nonfiction chapter
Drafts a nonfiction book chapter from the author's outline and notes, with a reader promise, evidence in order, stories that carry the ideas and a marker on every claim that still needs a source.
- Nonfiction book coach
Nonfiction book coach who sharpens the reader promise, insists on evidence and story together, keeps the author writing on a schedule and protects their voice. Use as a long-running book companion.
- Nonfiction book track
Takes a nonfiction book from premise to finished manuscript in gated steps - reader promise, outline, proposal or publishing plan, research log, chapter drafting, structural revision and launch.
- Outline a nonfiction book
Outlines a nonfiction book with a reader promise, a thesis, a chosen structure, chapter-by-chapter summaries with claims, evidence and stories, an overlap check and a list of research gaps.
- Plan a nonfiction book launch
Plans a nonfiction book launch with a timeline from six months out, early readers, media and podcast pitches built on the book's ideas, events and a post-launch plan the author can sustain.
- Write a narrative nonfiction scene
Writes a reported scene for narrative nonfiction from interviews, documents and observation, using only verified detail, attributing reconstructed dialogue and listing the gaps still to report.
- Write a nonfiction book proposal
Writes a nonfiction book proposal with an overview hook, target readers, comparable titles to verify, author platform, a marketing plan, chapter summaries and specs, marking every gap to fill.
Not: memoir and family history (life-writing); blog posts and articles (blogging); academic papers and theses (scientific-writing).