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Let Richard Pachter, the Miami Herald’s business book reviewer, help you research successful nonfiction books

Filed Under Step 1: Plan

Monday’s planning tip for authors

Research can play an important role in planning your book’s success. You need to know what’s selling and what are the characteristics that book reviewers look for when reviewing books. An excellent starting point is to explore the writing of Richard Pachter, who reviews business and nonfiction books for the Miami Herald. Richard offers numerous articles, blogs, and resources at his website, www.wordsonwords.com. Richard Pachter’s resources include:

  • Reviews of the Best Business Books of 2007. You can easily access his detailed reviews of each title. You can also link to his lists of the Best Business Books of each of the previous 3 years.
  • Review Rap Blog of music and books, with an emphasis on business books intended for a broad business market. (i.e., no self-help, technical, business to business, etc.)

Miami Herald’s Business Monday Book Club
On his site, Richard includes a link where you can join the Miami Herald’s Business Monday Book Club. A limited number of readers, who join by submitting an e-mail containing their postal mailing address, are sent copies of books for review. They have 3 weeks to submit their reviews. Excerpts from their reviews are included in Richard’s review of the books. (See Details.) It’s a great way to expand your library at no cost while building your credentials as a published writer.

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