📖Write useful books: a modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction
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- authors
- Rob Fitzpatrick
- year
- 2021
- On writing well
- self-publish your first 10,000 copies and then you can negotiate with publishers from a strong position
- p.12 useful books are problem-solving products
- p.13 make the promise so clear so that people can decide they don’t need it (they won’t be lured and won’t write negative reviews)
- p.14 testing title: try to describe book in one-two sentences in a conversation, and see how people (mis)interpret it
- p.49 add word count to the ToC to visualize reader experience
- Austin Kleon, Show your work