How To Get a Non-Fiction Book Deal

Me not so modestly posing with an entire row of my books at Book Passage in San Francisco’s Ferry Building.

“We wouldn’t give the best author in the world a book deal if they didn’t have a platform”.

These are the words of an executive from a top ten publishing house. He told me this whilst I was courting publishers for my first ‘real’ book, Employee to Entrepreneur: How to Earn Your Freedom and Do Work That Matters. I say ‘real’ because I had…