WritingHow Many Words Should Your Book Be? A Genre-by-Genre Guide for First-Time Authors
A 30,000-word business book and a 90,000-word memoir are both “full books” — for different readers. The typical ranges by genre, and how to pick your target.
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WritingA 30,000-word business book and a 90,000-word memoir are both “full books” — for different readers. The typical ranges by genre, and how to pick your target.
WritingYou already explain your expertise every week — to clients, in workshops, on calls. How to gather that material, shape it into chapters, and finish a first book.
Book MarketingThe ten mistakes that quietly bury first books on Amazon — from unedited manuscripts and wrong categories to launching to nobody and misunderstanding KDP Select — and what to do instead.
Editing & FormattingA practical self-editing checklist for first-time authors: the rest period, developmental pass, line edit, proofread, consistency checks, beta readers, and when to hire an editor.
WritingA practical chapter-by-chapter framework for outlining a nonfiction book: the reader's transformation, the book thesis, a three-part spine, and a worked founder example.