• Define your nonfiction goals
• Pick a legal subject and turn it into a book
• Understand the nonfiction publishing business
• Choose timely topics
• Develop story ideas for nonfiction articles
• Get paid for writing non-fiction
• Turn your book idea into a successful nonfiction book
• Write a successful nonfiction proposal
• Find the right agent for you
• Write compelling nonfiction
• Understand what it takes to write nonfiction books
• Write articles for periodicals and on-line media
• Understand and use the submission process to your advantage
• Make the perfect pitch of your work
• Motivate yourself to write
• Research and write works of nonfiction
• Find time to write
• Use the correct writing style for your piece of nonfiction

Dave Freedman has worked as a writer, editor, author, and publishing consultant since 1978. He has served on the editorial staffs of professional, business, trade, and consumer magazines and newsletters. As a freelance writer, he has written more than a thousand articles for magazines, newsletters, and newspapers (including online publications), mainly in the fields of law, personal finance, and business management. Dave has also ghost-written more than 100 articles for lawyers and financial advisers. Dave is the author of two non-fiction books, one of which was based on a $100 million civil rights lawsuit: Death of an American (Continuum, New York, 1983). He is the editor of a forthcoming book (due out January 2004) on information management compliance, coauthored by a lawyer and a management consultant.

Katharine Sands is a literary agent with the Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency in New York City. She represents a wide range of authors in a broad range of categories including legal nonfiction, literary fiction, and dysfiction. She has represented the literary estate of Norman Wexler, Academy Award-nominated for Saturday Night Fever, XTC: SongStories, and Under the Hula Moon by Jocelyn Fuji (as co-agent). Katharine has been a guest speaker on writing and publishing topics for lawyers and other writers, The American Society of Journalists and Authors, New York University and the New York State Council on Arts. Her books have appeared in Publishers Weekly and the New York Times Book Review. 

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