The Ultimate Nonfiction Book Planner

Turn your expertise into a book that helps readers and your business. The Nonfiction Book Planner has 8 sections: idea, structure, research, write, edit, business, pitch & blurb and publish.

Choose your format below. Each format is an instant download, and every format comes with the Recommended Resources for Authors PDF.

• Goodnotes & PDF: 60-page digital planner with clickable tabs, contents and back links; two designs: Classic and the colourful Pop design; printable US Letter versions of both designs.
• Microsoft Word: Editable Word document (.docx) with clickable contents; worked examples showing how each page is used; prints on A4 or US Letter.
• Notion template: Notion template you duplicate into your own workspace; linked dashboard and pages, with built-in databases and tracker tables; works on the free Notion plan, on desktop, tablet and phone.
• Scrivener template: Scrivener 3 project template; the planner's pages set up in the binder, beside your manuscript.
• E-ink edition: Hyperlinked PDF made for e-ink tablets; larger text and high-contrast pages.

What's inside

8 sections, 60 pages in the PDF: Idea, Structure, Research, Write, Edit, Business, Pitch & Blurb and Publish.

One big idea, one reader

• The Big Idea: the one argument or method behind your book
• Describe the one specific reader you are writing for
• Map where your reader starts and where the book leaves them
• Why You?, comparable books and title & subtitle pages

Chapters that deliver

• The Book Promise: your contract with the reader
• Chapter maps, plus in-depth planners for four chapters
• Sketch and name your own framework or model
• A bank of stories, case studies, exercises and worksheets

Make the book work for you

• Research list, research notes and an interviews tracker
• Quotes & permissions and a fact-check log
• Your Book Funnel: what you offer readers inside the book
• Speaking & media tracker and a book proposal planner

Write, edit and publish

• Plan of action and a 100-day word count tracker
• A Nonfiction Checklist and a chapter-by-chapter clarity pass
• Logline, hooks, taglines and a blurb workshop
• Amazon keywords, categories and a cover brief

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