“Your Book Writing Qualifications Have Arrived! --An Expert's How to Write a Book Step-by-Step Guide”
Ever wonder if you have the right credentials for writing the book you've always wanted to pen? Here's your answer, and here's how you capitalize on exactly what you DO have to prove your expertise!
by Steve Manning
Have you ever sat in a darkened room and wondered not if you had the talent to write your book, but if you had the qualifications, the accreditation, or the background, that would allow you to write your book? It's as if every would-be author is extraordinarily worried about being asked if they can prove to the reader that they have the academic accreditation or professional position to provide useful information. Want to write a book about weight loss, you have to be a doctor, right? Or any book about health requires that the author be a Physician. Nothing less will do. Here's how you overcome this challenge…
The last thing you want to have happen is to be in the middle of an interview and be asked why you are qualified to write this book. Well here are a couple of ideas that should put your mind at ease. And should market you to becoming a successful author regardless of your paper qualifications… or lack of them.
Of course this doesn't happen with works of fiction. An author can always say, truthfully, that they did research into what the paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine chapel actually look like. But with nonfiction, you may be a bit more hesitant.
Start by establishing your qualifications, whatever they are, right at the beginning of your book. Make no apologies. Starting from a position of weakness doesn't work. Statements such as, "I never received a doctorate," or "I'm not a teacher but…" won't help you at all.
Instead emphasize what you do have: "the work you're about to read is the result of my personal journey through the halls of medical recovery from this affliction, as well as the countless comments and personal experiences of others who have found themselves in similar circumstances. For more than five years, my family fought a never-ending battle to ensure that precise and accurate medical attention and treatment was given to our son. Some of the situations you're about to discover may sound nothing short of astounding. And yet their truth has been verified time and time again. My personal notes were made immediately after situations arose, so time could not be given the chance to fog the mind, temper the reaction or dull the memory."
Okay, nowhere did I say I was a doctor and nowhere did I make apologies for that fact. If you don't have the academic qualifications you'd like to have, too bad. Don't let that stand in your way. Instead, go after the fact head on and really emphasize the qualifications you do have. There's nothing saying you can't write a book about something just because you don't have the 'credentials' to justify your putting pen to paper. The two have absolutely nothing to do with one another.
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There are many non-fiction authors who try to fudge or obscure the situation. The relationship 'doctor' who got his degree from a degree mill. The individual who wears a lab coat to every interview but has never done anything scientific. You're much better off never mentioning that you are or pretending to be 'qualified' academically when you're not.
You might even want to go the opposite way. I know one author who makes it a point to start every interview with the statement that he's not a lawyer. His life has just made him really familiar with a specific aspect of the legal world.
Again, don't apologize for your experience, your talent, your skills, your ability, your insight, or your obsession with helping others. But if the question ever comes up, turn what you might think is a disadvantage, into an advantage by realizing that the proof of the pudding is in the eating, not in how qualified the cook is.
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