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