WNFIN 2016 Videos
Browse the archive of the Write Nonfiction In November 2016 challenge videos.
Introduction: 31 October 2016
Why Take A Challenge and How To Meet It with Nina Amir
Nina Amir is an Amazon bestselling author of such books as How to Blog a Book, The Author Training Manual and Creative Visualization for Writers (October 2016). She is known as the Inspiration to Creation Coach because she helps writers, bloggers and other creative people combine their passion and purpose so they move from idea to inspired action and Achieve More Inspired Results. This helps them positively and meaningfully impact the world - with their words or other creations.
Nina is a hybrid author who has self-published 17 books and had as many as nine books on Amazon Top 100 lists and six on the same bestseller list (Authorship) at the same time.
As an Author Coach, Nina supports writers on the journey to successful authorship. Some of her clients have sold 300,000+ copies of their books, landed deals with major publishing houses and created thriving businesses around their books. She is the creator of a proprietary Author Training curriculum for writers and other coaches.
She is an international speaker and award-winning journalist and blogger as well as the founder of National Nonfiction Writing Month and the Nonfiction Writers’ University.
Nina also is one of 300 elite Certified High Performance Coaches working around the world.
For more information, visit www.ninaamir.com.
Video One: 7 November 2016
How to Boost Your Creativity with Ransom Stephens
Ransom Stephens, Ph.D., is a scientist, science writer, and novelist. He’s written hundreds of articles on subjects ranging from neuroscience to quantum physics to parenting teenagers.
In his first novel, The God Patent (47North, 2010), a troubled father is caught in the science-religion culture war and in his second, The Sensory Deception (47North, 2013), scientists and venture capitalists use the relationship between the senses and the mind to give people the experiences of endangered animals.
His first nonfiction book, The Left Brain Speaks but the Right Brain Laughs (Viva Editions, 2016), is an irreverent and accurate look at neuroscience for a lay-audience with emphasis on innovation in art and science.
Ransom has given thousands of speeches across the US, Europe, and Asia and has developed a reputation for making complex topics accessible and funny.
Video Two: 14 November 2016
How to Write a Book with Lisa Tener
Stevie Award winning book coach, Lisa Tener specializes in helping professionals, experts, enlightened entrepreneurs and others write and publish a compelling how-to book, self-help book or memoir. Lisa's clients have signed 5- and 6-figure publishing deals with top New York publishers and many of her clients - self and traditionally published - have won prestigious awards for their books. She teaches on the faculty of Harvard Medical School’s leadership and publishing course and blogs for the Huffington Post on writing and publishing.
Video Three: 21 November 2016
How to Become a Freelance Writer with Carol Tice
Since 2005, Carol Tice has been a full-time freelancer, for both publications and businesses. She’s been fortunate to work with a lot of terrific clients, from Forbes, Entrepreneur, and The Writer’s Market, to Costco and American Express. She also write the Make a Living Writing blog, where she teach freelance writers how to grow their income, and created the membership community Freelance Writers Den.
Before this most recent freelance phase, I spent nearly 7 years as a staff writer at the Puget Sound Business Journal, 
filing four articles per week on business doings in Seattle. She wrote about retail, ecommerce, restaurant, nonprofits, higher education and more. Interviewed Schultz, Nordstrom, Sinegal, Bezos, and many more.
Before Puget Sound Business Journal, Carol spent five years covering home improvement retailing for the trade publication National Home Center News (now Home Channel News).
Video Four A: 28 November 2016
How to Self-Publish with Carla King
Carla King started blogging in 1995, before the word “blog” was invented, by sending online dispatches to the internet from the saddle of a cranky Russian sidecar motorcycle.
Simultaneously, Carla test rode the art of the real-time internet travel report for technology publisher O’Reilly & Associates. Both endeavors succeeded, and her American Borders journey (now a book) was followed by other solo journeys to China, India, Europe, and Africa on a variety of unreliable indigenous motorcycles.
These experiences provided her with the material for many more years of books, online magazines and websites, but she’s still traveling, blogging, Facebooking and tweeting her way around the world.
Even before her first blog for O’Reilly, Carla self-published a guide to Cycling the French Riviera in 1995. Later, after many web experiments, she co-published in print the Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel anthology with her writing group. The book even met with a deal with a traditional publisher.
In 2010, after self-publishing five more books, Carla co-founded the Self-Publishing Boot Camp educational program of workshops, books, and blogs. She also founded Author Friendly dot com, to provide services to authors who need more hand-holding. She has blogged for PBS MediaShift, BookWorks, Bowker’s Self-Published Author, and also occasionally guest blogged for Nina Amir.
Carla’s book, the Self-Publishing Boot Camp Guide for Authors, is in its third edition, providing authors with clear actionable steps to successfully promote and sell books in print and every popular ebook format.
Today Carla splits her time between San Diego and Baja where she mixes her self-publishing consulting business with adventure travel journalism. Stories from her next book, The China Road Motorcycle Diaries, have been blogged, pre-published, and serialized in anthologies, magazines, and many social media sites. Wherever she is, you can find her at CarlaKing.com.
Video Four B: 28 November 2016
How to Traditionally Publish with Jody Rein
Formerly an executive editor with imprints of the Big Five publishers in New York, Jody now runs the boutique literary agency Jody Rein Books, Inc., and the “all things publishing” services providing company, AuthorPlanet.org. Agency projects include bestseller and film The Big Year by Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Obmascik; bestseller and sitcom 8 Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter by W. Bruce Cameron; the forthcoming Crazy Horse Weeps by Joseph M. Marshall III. JRB seeks nonfiction by writers who have deep subject matter and journalistic expertise, and the occasional upmarket crime novel or engaging work of literary fiction.
AuthorPlanet.org, provides editorial work, contract review, coaching, project management and marketing services for writers and companies, working collaboratively to create platforms, proposals, websites, social media, independent publication and career strategic plans.
Working with Author Planet is not a path to representation by Jody Rein Books. Each company operates independently.
Jody is a member of the Association of Authors’ Representatives and the Authors Guild, and is popular speaker at universities and conferences nationwide. She is the co-author of the forthcoming book How to Write a Book Proposal, Fifth Edition which will be published by Writer’s Digest Books in 2017.
www.jodyreinbooks.com; www.authorplanet.org; @authorplanet
