{"id":10153,"date":"2024-12-12T09:14:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T09:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qinprinting.com\/blog\/?p=10153"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:20:35","slug":"how-to-write-womens-non-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qinprinting.com\/blog\/how-to-write-womens-non-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Write Non-Fiction Books for the Women's Market"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Learn how to research and write non-fiction books for the women's market. We take you, step-by-step through what you need to know to get ideas, develop outlines, write, print, and self-publish non-fiction books aimed at one of the bestselling and most profitable markets in the world.<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Women's non-fiction: a lucrative market for independent writers<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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When did you last pick up a women’s magazine or look up “non-fiction women’s books<\/a>” in your favorite online bookstore? If you haven’t browsed the newsstands and bookstores for women’s non-fiction recently, you may not realize just how many of these titles there are and how well they’re selling; not to mention how much in this sector is written by independent, self-publishing authors. We just checked on Amazon in this category and it turned up over 100,000 titles. The sheer volume of high-quality, wide-distribution women’s books is amazing, but it’s not such a big category that there isn’t room for one more author to carve their niche in the market. Thousands of titles sell millions of copies daily. Yours could be one of them. Why not?<\/p>

Contemporary women’s non-fiction books \u2013 and you can validate this with your own research \u2013 are as varied in content, approach, and style as women themselves are varied in their interests and lifestyles. And while most women’s writers are women, you needn’t be a woman to write in this field. Many successful women’s writers are men. Whatever your passion or writing niche, you’ll find a space for it in the women’s non-fiction market. After all, half the people on the planet are women and women are smart, eager, voracious readers as a whole.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Even in our supposedly more enlightened times, there persists in some quarters \u2013 and it saddens us to say it \u2013 a popular misconception that writing for women is both easy and formulaic. But, to speak plainly, that’s just sexist nonsense. Writing for the women’s market is no less demanding than writing for any other. You must create fresh, original, well-written content tailored to your readership.<\/p>

The first rules for writing for the women’s non-fiction market are the same as for other markets:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Read the kind of books you want to write<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Research market indicators such as magazines, websites, blogs, YouTube channels and TV shows that cover the same topics<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Choose a targeted topic and give it a fresh angle<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Commit yourself to producing only your best writing, edited, proofread, and polished<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Research the women's non-fiction market<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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As we mentioned, the women’s non-fiction market is vast. Every day, books are printed, published, distributed, bought, and eagerly read by women (and many men) at every stage of life, of every political persuasion, of every economic, professional and relationship status. Women’s non-fiction books are not a homogeneous grouping. For this reason, it’s important to do a thorough job of researching your intended market within this sector before you start planning and writing.<\/p>

Checking the bookstores online and offline, visiting your public library, and checking the newsstands, you’ll discover a plethora of potential topics to write about. Just be aware that several subjects are already so well-covered by the staff writers of mainstream publishers that they may represent a more challenging niche for independent authors’ contributions. Fashion, cosmetics, beauty and fitness often fall into that category; although if you have a strikingly original take, you could still break into the market that way. But that still leaves a wealth of possibilities. To get you started on the right track, here are five niches within the women’s market that always seem to have room for more, based on our extensive experience in the book printing business.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Only a detailed and up-to-date analysis that you do yourself based on your interests, location, and other factors will show you what that topics are hot and which evergreen subjects are reliable sellers. But we know that five genres are perennially popular with women all over the world. They’re also the easiest for an indie author to break into with success.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Popular everywhere and always, ‘tragedy to triumph’ stories are true life (or true-to-life) accounts about people who have overcome terrible odds to achieve happiness, wealth, or the resolution of a family, personal relationship, or health issue.<\/p>

Unlike the ‘confessional’\u200a\u2014\u200awhich we’ll cover next\u200a\u2014\u200athese stories must be genuine and you may need to include evidence to that effect, such as photographs of the people involved in the design and layout of your book. While you may choose friends, colleagues, or family members with an interesting story to be the subjects of your book, you must always obtain their written consent. With historical figures and deceased persons, you shouldn’t have any trouble, especially if your book shows the person in a generous and sympathetic light.<\/p>

Good themes for this genre include the following:<\/p>