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“Writing a nonfiction book should primarily be about establishing credibility and authority in a specific domain.”
― Hassan Osman, Write Your Book on the Side: How to Write and Publish Your First Nonfiction Kindle Book While Working a Full-Time Job

“Writing a nonfiction book should primarily be about establishing credibility and authority in a specific domain. Your aim should be to become a published author and respected thought leader in your market. So focus on a “legacy-first” mindset over a “money-first” one, and the money will come later.”
― Hassan Osman, Write Your Book on the Side: How to Write and Publish Your First Nonfiction Kindle Book While Working a Full-Time Job

“Step 1 was about choosing a general topic for your book by listing ideas in four circles: Interest, Experience, Market, and Job-Related (optional, but recommended). The ideas that fall under the first three circles, and preferably all four, are the topics you”
― Hassan Osman, Write Your Book on the Side: How to Write and Publish Your First Nonfiction Kindle Book While Working a Full-Time Job

“A great title and subtitle should ideally do four things: grab attention, explain the outcome, define the audience, and contain keywords.”
― Hassan Osman, Write Your Book on the Side: How to Write and Publish Your First Nonfiction Kindle Book While Working a Full-Time Job

“should focus on. In Step 2, you take the general topics you came up with in Step 1 and niche them down by narrowing the audience and/or the outcome. You can accomplish that by looking at your own experiences, reading positive and negative reviews of similar books on Amazon, checking internet forums, and running surveys. The goal of this step is to write an output statement such as “My book will help ” so that you define the topic of your short book. In Step 3, you take that output statement from Step 2 and use it to create a few title and subtitle options for your book.  The”
― Hassan Osman, Write Your Book on the Side: How to Write and Publish Your First Nonfiction Kindle Book While Working a Full-Time Job

“An ISBN (International Standard Book Number) will be required for your physical book. You can get one for free using a CreateSpace-assigned ISBN, or purchase a custom universal ISBN for $99. I usually go for the free option.”
― Hassan Osman, Write Your Book on the Side: How to Write and Publish Your First Nonfiction Kindle Book While Working a Full-Time Job