The Scribe Method: The Best Way to Write and Publish Your Non-Fiction Book

positioning is about answering the question readers ask about every book: “Why should I read this book?”

Imposter Syndrome is when someone—even a very accomplished person with a lot of experience and credentials—believes they don’t actually know what everyone thinks they know. They believe their ideas are either wrong or invalid, or that everyone already knows what they know.

When I say small and niche, I mean literally ask yourself, “Who makes up the smallest group of people that my book is specifically designed to reach and influence?”

Question #1: How do you want your book to serve your readers? What will they get out of it? While your book can get you myriad benefits, the content of the book is not for you—it’s for the reader.

Be as vulnerable as you need to be to write the most impactful story for the reader.

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.” —Theodore Roosevelt

The fear of judgment is crippling to many authors, and prevents them from either writing their book, or from writing the book that they really want to write, or telling the stories they want to tell in their book. Here’s the simple fact about books: if no one at all disagrees with what you are saying, then you aren’t saying anything worth putting i

Now, most books are published outside of the old, traditional models, and most nonfiction books are not monetized directly. Here is modern reality: most nonfiction authors make the majority of their money from other things that a book gets them, and not from sales of their books.

Most authors try to combine everything they know into one book because they think they don’t have enough information for one book. They’re insecure about the book and try to compensate by cramming it with everything possible.