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Jim Canfield on Launching a New Career with a Book
How an author rewrote a classic business book and changed his life. The CEO’s CEO Jim Canfield has spent much of his career helping business owners and entrepreneurs from diverse industries succeed....
The No-Excuses Guide to Writing a Business Book
Establish yourself as an expert. Increase credibility. Attract a following. Will this help you move your career forward? Entrepreneur Brian Marcel has had a wildly successful career. As one of the...
Business Book Author Brian Marcel: Niche Experience, Broad Appeal
With a career’s-worth of experience, this barcode industry entrepreneur created a marketable nonfiction book with The Book Professor®. Finding Opportunity in a New Technology Brian Marcel felt...
The Book Professor’s® Complete Guide to Writing Your Nonfiction Book
A lot of us suddenly have a surprising amount of free time on our hands. If you want to start your manuscript today, here’s my process, start to finish. It’s Time to Stop Stalling [Note to...
A life coach’s memoir finds hope amid tragedy
Nancy Jo Nelson’s “little book about big stuff” confronts the mystery around grief for a suicide victim with help from Nancy Erickson, The Book Professor®. Trigger warning: This post deals with...
The Key Ingredients of an Effective Memoir
Are you an Overcomer? When author Lindsey Jacobs came to work with me, she had an incredible story. She went through a divorce but found her way, bit by bit, as she trained for a triathlon. That...
How One Triathlete Turned Her Blog into a Memoir
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Lindsey Jacobs found her voice as an author while going through one significant life change after another. She transformed her story into a nonfiction book with a...
Overcoming Writer’s Block Part 4: Structure Is the Secret Sauce
Are you one of these people? As The Book Professor®, I meet aspiring authors all the time. They say things like: “I have a big idea that would make a difference. I wish I could figure out how to...
How a business coach turned “creative chaos” into a 5-star non-fiction book
As someone with an English degree, Beth is no stranger to the writing process. She writes the blog for TrainerTainment and, since 2006, a monthly column for RePlay Magazine called “The Party Professor.” She thought that writing a book would comfortably fall inside her skill set without much outside help. So, at the beginning of 2018, she decided to collect her stories and wisdom into a book. She unplugged from work and set aside two weeks to churn out as much as possible. By day two, she realized she needed help.