Wed, Sep 30
|Book Society
Expert to Author: Five Steps to a Published Nonfiction Book
Join us for an interactive workshop with book coaches Marisa Solis and Elizabeth Dougherty. They'll walk you through five surprising, often-overlooked things you can do now — even if you haven't written a single word — to boost your odds of finishing your nonfiction book and getting it published.
Time & Location
Sep 30, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Book Society, 2945 College Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705, USA
About the event
Most people who want to write a book do the same thing: they sit down and start writing. And most of them stall out.
Marisa Solis and Elizabeth Dougherty have spent decades as book coaches and editors watching this happen — and helping writers get unstuck. Their diagnosis is simple. Writing the manuscript is only about 60 percent of authorship. The other 40 percent — including knowing why you're writing, who you're writing for, how your book is built, and who's in your corner — is the part nobody talks about. It's also the part that determines whether a nonfiction book gets finished.
In The Complete Expert-to-Author Guide: Plan, Write, and Publish Your Nonfiction Book, Marisa and Elizabeth lay out the full path from idea to published book. At Book Society, they're bringing the first and most important stretch of it into the room for a hands-on evening. This is…