Digital + printable planner for nonfiction authors
The Ultimate Nonfiction Book Planner
Turn your expertise into a book that helps readers and your business
Choose your format
What you get with the Goodnotes & PDF edition
- 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
- Recommended Resources for Authors PDF
A hyperlinked PDF for Goodnotes, Notability, Noteshelf and other PDF note apps on iPad or Android tablets. Tap the tabs and contents to jump between pages.
About this 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.
It comes as Goodnotes & PDF, Microsoft Word, Notion template, Scrivener template and E-ink edition, or as a printed, spiral-bound planner, so you can plan in the app you already use.
Sample pages
Take a look inside
Real pages from the Nonfiction Book Planner, in both designs. Tap a page to see it bigger.
What's inside
8 sections, 60 pages in the PDF
Idea6 pages
- The big idea & your reader
- The transformation
- Why you? & comp books
Structure8 pages
- The book promise
- Chapter maps & planners
- Frameworks & case studies
Research5 pages
- Research list & notes
- Interviews tracker
- Quotes & permissions
Write7 pages
- Plan of action
- Opening lines
- 100-day word tracker
Edit5 pages
- Nonfiction checklist
- Clarity pass
- Beta readers & editors
Business3 pages
- Your book funnel
- Speaking & media tracker
- Book proposal planner
Pitch & Blurb7 pages
- Logline & elevator pitch
- Hooks & taglines
- Blurb workshop & drafts
Publish7 pages
- Book details & cover brief
- Amazon keywords
- Categories & checklist
Section and page counts are for the Goodnotes & PDF edition; the other formats hold the same planning pages, arranged to suit each app.
Highlights
Inside the Nonfiction Book Planner
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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