Nina Amir

San Francisco Writer's Conference co-producer Nina Amir shows how words can make a difference through books that spark change, start movements, and make this a better world. Change the World One Book At a Time will teach those who want to write for change how to produce books that serve as potent tools for transformation. Like Becoming a Citizen Activist meets Writing to Change the World, this nonfiction reference book will provide activists, coaches, healers, clergy, speakers, leaders, writers, and anyone who wants to write a book that makes a difference with a comprehensive guide to understanding the change process, building engaged communities around their missions, and writing books that move readers to action.

Why write a nonfiction book in a month? To get the first draft done, that's why. Maybe you have lots of ideas that you haven't gotten down on paper, published, and into the hands of eager readers. Perhaps you think you don't have the time or the skills to become an author. All too often, perfectly capable writers have such misconceptions, and they end up taking years to finish their book-if they finish at all. Don't let that happen to you. Get your brilliant idea out of your head and onto the page...in 30 days, so it can be read by those who need it. This guide will help you: - Fine-tune your idea for maximum effectiveness in the market - Find the time to write - Prepare, structure, and organize so you write smart, not hard - Spark your creativity (or memory, if you're writing memoir) - Maintain your energy, enthusiasm, and drive - Not get distracted or discouraged - Finish what you start - Create supportive writing habits - Write a great first draft in a month- Remain productive and consistent The revised and expanded edition of the Write Nonfiction NOW Guide to Writing a Book in 30 Days includes seven new chapters. Plus, several original chapters have been revised and expanded.The Write Nonfiction NOW Guides are edited by Nina Amir, an author, blogger, journalist, author coach, transformational coach, Certified High Performance Coach(R), and founder of the Write Nonfiction in November Challenge and Nonfiction Writers' University. Each guide includes tips from bestselling authors, seasoned writing coaches, and publishing experts and teaches a unique aspect of becoming a successful nonfiction author. The series informs and motivates aspiring and published authors, businesspeople, and even non-writers to create publishable products based on their expertise and passion.

Creative Visualization for Writers is designed so that readers can pick up the book and use it for a day, a week or a month - whatever time frame works for them. They can pick and choose from more than 150 interactive exercises, which include everything from stormwriting and coloring, to drawing and diagramming. With so much variety, every writer will find numerous exercises that speak to them. And they can use the book over and over again whenever they need inspiration, relaxation, a way to work on or bring an idea into the world, or a creative boost. The book provides a prescription any time the reader feels stuck, stressed, low energy, frustrated, lacking in confidence, or simply experiences a light bulb go on for a new idea-or needs a light bulb to go on. By using the book in this way, readers will change their ways of looking at themselves, their works-in-progress and their ability to make those creative dreams realities. They will emerge with a new perspective, new habits, and many new ideas and goals designed to enhance or move forward their writing careers. The book will be divided into five primary sections, including self-exploration, goals, creativity, visualization, and focus. Working through these sections will help writers to:* Improve creativity by using both the right and left side of the brain.* Ideate with ease.* Relax with coloring therapy.* Gain clarity about themselves and their creative goals.* Focus on ideas and how to get from inspiration to manifestation.* Use affirmations and visualization to help make dreams and ideas reality.* Find joy in the creative process.

Anyone can publish a book and become an "author," but if you want to become a successful author with a profitable publishing career, you need a clear, step-by-step guide to help you develop book ideas that sell. In The Author Training Manual, expert editor and book coach Nina Amir reveals the exact process successful authors have used to create business plans and proposals for their books and teaches you how to view your ideas through the eyes of acquisitions editors and literary agents. Whether you write fiction or nonfiction, plan to traditionally publish or self-publish, The Author Training Manual provides you with the tools you need to achieve your goals and become the author publishers want. Inside you'll find concrete steps, evaluations, sample business plans, in-depth training activities, editor and agent commentaries, and much more--all designed to help you stand out, from the slush pile to the shelf. "Among the myriad of books written about the business of writing and publishing, Nina Amir's The Author Training Manual is the first I've seen that combines all of the elements necessary to learn how to be an actual (rather than 'aspiring') writer." - Brian Felsen, President, BookBaby "The Author Training Manual teaches you to produce a business plan for your book and to evaluate that plan through the lens of acquisitions editors--essential knowledge for any aspiring author." - Rick Frishman, best-selling author of the Author 101 series "This excellent book is loaded with practical, proven techniques you can use continually to become a 'high-earning' author as well as a top seller." - Brian Tracy, author of Unlimited Sales Success

Only four out of five people who go to the trouble of setting New Year's goals ever achieve them. Interestingly, we call these New Year's "resolutions," but it seems few of us really resolve to accomplish them. Do you want to actually achieve your New Year's goals and resolutions this year? If so, Get Ready, Aim, Shoot, and Hit Your Target, a spiritual New Year's guide and workbook written for anyone from any religious tradition or background, will help you set and accomplish them. Both the secular New Year and the Jewish New Year, called Rosh Hashanah, mark the end of one year and the beginning of another, although each commemorates the old and brings in the new in a slightly different manner. Yet, each has one thing in common - a focus on developing New Year's resolutions or goals. Whether or not you are Jewish, Judaism's way of looking at the New Year and the goals we set at that time, provide a helpful guide for actually achieving these goals and creating lasting change in our lives. If you are Jewish, you'll enjoy reading Get Ready, Aim, Shoot, and Hit Your Target and taking a deeper look at how your religion can help you create change in your life. If you follow another religion, or if you are not religious at all, simply take what you can from the ancient wisdom and philosophy included in Get Ready, Aim, Shoot, and Hit Your Target's pages and put it to use in your life. Get Ready, Aim, Shoot, and Hit Your Target provides wisdom, tools, principles, and exercises pertinent to Jews and non-Jews, to anyone from any religious or spiritual background that can be put to work in your life this year. In fact, put them to use right now. You'll be amazed at the results you'll achieve. Inside Get Ready, Aim, Shoot, and Hit Your Target, you'll find the following information: - Why It's Sinful Not to Set a Target and Try to Hit the Mark - How a Missed Mark Improves Your Aim - How to Seal Your Fate by Visualizing Hitting the Bull's Eye You'll also use the following exercises: - Evaluating Your Aim Last Year Looking at Where You Missed the Mark - Improving Your Aim - Setting New Targets - Writing Yourself into the Book of Life - Visionary Descriptions of Targets Hit - Discovering What Stops Us from Hitting the Mark