Effective Book Authoring

Have you ever wanted to write a nonfiction book? This course is for you.

Why Write a Book?

Have you ever wanted to get a message across? 📣

Is there something inside you that you need to tell the world? 🌎

Writing a book can not only share your knowledge with the world, but it also can bring jobs, consulting engagements, and recognition. ⚒✉🏆

I'm Not an Author!

This course is for professionals. Writing a book was never something I set out to do. After teaching others at conferences, I figured I could incorporate this knowledge into a book.

A few months later, I was holding the book in my hand. This book opened doors for me.

Not only did it bring in passive income, but it also brought many opportunities to me.

I want to enable you to have these opportunities and grease the skids so you can focus on creating a great book.

Testimonials

The interviews are great. Writers kinda have to find their own way, their own voice. But having lots of perspectives really is useful and much more efficient than doing ones own search.

This is such a useful QuickStart to the strategy of book writing. It can save days of fuddling about. It provides great encouragement for considering things in a proper order. 

Bill T.

Matt Harrison's authoring course is THE place to start if you are thinking about writing a technical book.

Grounded and practical information for aspiring authors that aren't sure where to start.   The bonus author interviews with this course give you experienced insight available nowhere else.

John S.

Why Effective Book Authoring?

Your time is valuable. When I first self-published my work there was not a lot of material to assist me. I had to teach myself a lot.

Since then, I've self-published over a dozen books and have worked with two different publishers to create books with them as well.

I've put it a lot of time and I want to share my knowledge with you.

  • Decide the reason why you should write
  • Choose between going with a publisher or self-publishing
  • Advice on outlining
  • Tips for choosing tools to help you
  • What to do after you are done writing

What's included with Effective Authoring?

Over 15 modules with practical advice for you to apply and create your masterpiece

Why Write a Book?
Figure out if you really want to embark on this journey. Let's jump into some of the benefits both seen and unseen.

Choosing a Topic
Your topic can determine the success of your book. Let's talk about how to evaluate it. 

Outlining Your Book
Whether you are creating a proposal for a publisher or planning to go it alone, you will need an outline. Let's figure out what this will look like.

Writing Your Book
The meat of your project. This is packed with practical tips and advice to help you with this part of the process.

What Tools to Use?
Tooling can be really important. We will discuss many tools and their pros and cons.

Creating EBooks
How do you create an EBook? Where do you sell it? We will answer this and more.

Creating Physical Books
You will probably want something that you can show to your mom. Let's see how to create a real-life dead tree book!

Editing Your Book
Helpful hints and tricks for creating a great piece of knowledge.  Creating a professional book requires more than just a draft.

Creating a Cover
Don't judge a book by its cover is the worst advice. If you follow this you are aiming to fail.

Translating Your Book
There is more than just English. How do you attack these other markets?

Selling Your Book
Oh yeah, you probably want to make some 💲. Let's figure that out too.

and more...

Bonus Interviews

Author of multiple Python and programming books.

Al Swiegart

Author of multiple Python, statistics,  and engineering books.

Allen Downey

Worked in the publishing industry for most of his career.

Andy Oram

Author of Python Testing with pytest, and podcaster.

Brian Okken

Ex-AWS engineer and author of The Good Parts of AWS

Daniel Vassallo

Author of multiple data science and R books.

Julia Silge

Author of multiple Python books.

Michael Driscoll

Author of CPython Internals

Anthony Shaw

Author of multiple data science books.

Kate Stranchnyi

Author of multiple books now running micro-publishing business.

Nate Murray

Author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook and The Tech Resume Inside Out

Gergely Orosz

Author of The Coding Career Handbook.

Shawn "swyx" Wang

Author of Python Workout.

Reuven Lerner

Author of multiple published and self-published books.

Noah Gift

Create Your Masterpiece

Standard Version

Standard version is for those who want to commit to mastery through practice and exercises.
  • Up-to-date content on book ideation, writing, tools, and more
  • Author interviews
  • Worksheet for taking notes and planning your strategies
  • Retail price:  $99
  • Price: $79

Basic Version

Perfect if you want to learn the content but don't want to commit to mastery and personal application

  • Up-to-date content on book ideation, writing, tools, and more
  • Retail price: $59
  • Price: $39