Naima B. Robert – 4 Types of Books that Muslim Women Could Write and Publish Muslimah Author Project

I have a question for you.

When you think of writing a book, a

non fiction book,

what type of book comes to mind for

you? Is it, an autobiography?

Is it a self help book? Is it

something else entirely?

How much do you know about the types

of books that you could be writing in

order to get your story,

message, or knowledge out into the world in

order to create a legacy and gain sadaqa

Well, my name is Naima b Robert, and

I am the award winning author of almost

30 books for children, teens, and

adults. And I'm on a mission to create

222

Muslimah authors by the end of the year.

And so in this video,

I'm gonna be talking to you about the

types of books

that you could potentially be writing inshallah.

In a

essentially and in a nutshell,

I'm gonna go over 4 different types of

books

that most of our clients end up writing

when they want to share a story, message,

or knowledge. And the first one is a

story based book.

This is what we call a memoir.

This is the story,

stories from your life. A lot of people

think that,

a memoir is

just the same as an autobiography.

The way I like to break it down

for my clients is that an autobiography

is a story of your life, whereas a

memoir

is the stories

from your life.

So basically, a memoir can be themed around

all sorts of things. It could be just

a a chapter of your life. It could

be, you know, a situation that you went

through, an experience that you went through. It's

not I was born here and then everything

that happened up until now. So that's the

story based book. That's the memoir.

Certain skills are needed in order to be

able to do memoir well,

and I will let you know how you

can find out more about that at the

end of this inshallah. But the second type

of book is the guidance based book.

We call it guidance based.

It ends up being a self help book

or a transformational book. This is the type

of book that a lot of my coaches

like to write because it helps them to

take the reader on a journey

of transformation, of self discovery. That will be

more your self help book, your transformational book.

We're all familiar with the self help genre.

And if you are a coach,

you know, or you're somebody who helps people

go through some kind of transformation, obviously, that's

the right book for you.

The 3rd type of book is the expertise

based book. Okay? So that's the instructional book.

That's the kind of book where you share

your knowledge

straight, where you share your systems, where you

might share, you know, the tools that you

use in order to achieve a particular outcome.

This is really great for my experts out

there,

for my teachers and my trainers out there.

If what you teach is more about, you

know, kind of tools and, even habits and

and a system

where you could do step 1, step 2,

step 3, and, and it's more physical based,

then this is the type of book for

you.

That's number 3.

Number 4, I call it the community based

book. And it's basically the anthology.

This is the type of book where you

have a theme and

you

base the content of the book on the

community. So you get other people to write

whether it's poetry, whether it's essays, whether it's

whatever it is. In to make up this

book, this is an anthology

so it takes from, you know, all the

people, you know, who are relevant to the

story, relevant to what it is that you

want, the story, the message, or the knowledge,

and you put them all together in one

book with you as the editor and you

probably will write a piece for that as

well.

All 4 types

of these of all four types of books

are nonfiction.

Okay?

But

each one of these 4 types of books

requires

a certain skill set.

They are not all the same.

They don't all require the same skills, and

they don't all achieve

the same goals in the same way.

Now I hope that doesn't sound confusing.

I have helped

my clients to write all these types of

books.

And the way that we get them to

understand

which type of book is perfect for them

is by getting them to go through our

brilliant book road map. Okay? Our brilliant book

road map is the basically the way that

we allow get our clients to get clarity

on the book, on the audience, and on

what exactly it is that they're going to

be writing.

And I would love to share that resource

with you. So click on the link around

this video wherever you're watching it or comment

book roadmap

and we will get a copy out to

you. It's a free gift from my team

and I.

We want you to have this resource so

that you too can get clarity on the

type of book that you could be writing.

And if you already know that you want

to be one of those Muslim authors that

we celebrate at the end of the year,

simply go to naimarobert.com/services,

and you will see the other authors that

we've helped. And you can click on the

link simply to apply to work with my

team and I. We would love to celebrate

your book with you at the end of

the year. Insha'a

Until the next one.