If you’re creating a nonfiction book collaboratively, a good collaboration design will save you endless hours of work. An unwise collaboration design is not only wasteful, but will generate a poor result. Today, I look at the actual costs and benefits of good or poor collaboration design. What is collaboration design and why does it…
Life is simple is you write a nonfiction book all on your own. There’s nobody to check with and nobody to slow you down. But for books that make an impact, it’s usually a team effort. I just turned in a manuscript to a publisher for a book project that included a ghostwriter (me), an…
Any nonfiction book with more than one contributor needs a carefully designed collaboration process. Not all tools are appropriate for all authors. So before you begin, plan how you’re going to move from ideation to research to drafts to completion and how everyone will contribute or approve content all along the way. To demonstrate how…