Nina Amir
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Nina Amir, Your Inspiration-to-Creation Coach, inspires writers to create the results they desire--publishable and published products and careers as writers and authors. Amir inspires writers to combine their purpose and their passion so they Achieve More Inspired Results.
The author of the forthcoming book, How to Blog a Book: How to Write, Publish and Promote Your Work One Post at a Time (Writer’s Digest Books, May 2012), Amir is a nonfiction editor, consultant, and writing, book, blogging, and author coach with more than 33 years of experience in the publishing field; she offers these services through her company, CopyWright Communications. She also is the founder of Write Nonfiction in November, a yearly writing challenge accompanied by a blog. She writes four other blogs, including Write Nonfiction NOW! and How to Blog a Book, and two national Examiner.com columns and speaks weekly about writing and publishing on the popular radio show, Dresser After Dark (www.dresserafterdark.com).
Amir holds a BA in magazine journalism from Syracuse University with a concentration in psychology. Amir has edited or written for more than 45 local, national and international publications on a full-time or freelance basis producing hundreds of articles. Her essays have been published in five anthologies, and she has self-published nine short books, including the popular workbook How to Evaluate Your Book for Success.
As a book editor, Amir also has a proven track record. One of her clients' books (Enlightened Leadership) was self-published and then purchased and re-released verbatim by Simon & Schuster (Fireside); the book has sold over 230,000 to date. Another (Radical Forgiveness) won the 1998 Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Award (Inspirational category), went on to sell over 115,000 copies, and recently was purchased by Sounds True. Her clients' proposals regularly get them contracts with agents as well.
A popular speaker and workshop leader at California Writer’s Club branches, the San Francisco Writers Conference, and other West Coast writing events, Amir serves on the board of her local chapter of the California Writer’s Club (South Bay Writers), as well as being a mentor for its Publishing Pathways program. She is also a member of the Bay Area Independent Publisher’s Association (BAIPA) and the San Francisco chapter of the Woman’s National Book Association (WNBA).
Amir lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California with her husband. She has two children who now both study in New York City.
[/caption]Nina Amir, Your Inspiration-to-Creation Coach, inspires writers to create the results they desire--publishable and published products and careers as writers and authors. Amir inspires writers to combine their purpose and their passion so they Achieve More Inspired Results.
The author of the forthcoming book, How to Blog a Book: How to Write, Publish and Promote Your Work One Post at a Time (Writer’s Digest Books, May 2012), Amir is a nonfiction editor, consultant, and writing, book, blogging, and author coach with more than 33 years of experience in the publishing field; she offers these services through her company, CopyWright Communications. She also is the founder of Write Nonfiction in November, a yearly writing challenge accompanied by a blog. She writes four other blogs, including Write Nonfiction NOW! and How to Blog a Book, and two national Examiner.com columns and speaks weekly about writing and publishing on the popular radio show, Dresser After Dark (www.dresserafterdark.com).
Amir holds a BA in magazine journalism from Syracuse University with a concentration in psychology. Amir has edited or written for more than 45 local, national and international publications on a full-time or freelance basis producing hundreds of articles. Her essays have been published in five anthologies, and she has self-published nine short books, including the popular workbook How to Evaluate Your Book for Success.
As a book editor, Amir also has a proven track record. One of her clients' books (Enlightened Leadership) was self-published and then purchased and re-released verbatim by Simon & Schuster (Fireside); the book has sold over 230,000 to date. Another (Radical Forgiveness) won the 1998 Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Award (Inspirational category), went on to sell over 115,000 copies, and recently was purchased by Sounds True. Her clients' proposals regularly get them contracts with agents as well.
A popular speaker and workshop leader at California Writer’s Club branches, the San Francisco Writers Conference, and other West Coast writing events, Amir serves on the board of her local chapter of the California Writer’s Club (South Bay Writers), as well as being a mentor for its Publishing Pathways program. She is also a member of the Bay Area Independent Publisher’s Association (BAIPA) and the San Francisco chapter of the Woman’s National Book Association (WNBA).
Amir lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California with her husband. She has two children who now both study in New York City.
