Nonfiction Manuscript Consultatioin with Sonia Shah
Nonfiction Manuscript Consultatioin with Sonia Shah
Do you have ideas or writing you’d like to turn into a creative non-fiction book? Over the past twenty years, I’ve published five award-winning nonfiction books and two edited collections, have edited dozens of books as an editor/publisher and have served as a judge for the National Book Awards in Non-Fiction. I think in books! Meet with me on zoom for up to 2 hours to talk through your book concept. We can discuss how to develop your idea into a book-length project, how to organize and structure it, find research and reporting opportunities, and publishing strategies, upon request. $500
Need feedback to turn your book-in-progress into a polished manuscript ready for submission? Send me your pages. I’ll provide a 3-4 page written response on structure, organization, clarity, originality, and publishing strategies and meet with you on zoom to discuss. $2000
Sonia Shah is an investigative journalist and author of critically acclaimed and prize-winning books on science, human-animal relations, and international politics. Her next book is Special: The Rise and Fall of a Beastly Idea, awarded a 2023 Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant. Her most recent book, The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move (Bloomsbury, 2020), was a finalist for the 2021 PEN/E.O Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and was selected as a best nonfiction book of 2020 by Publishers Weekly, a best science book of 2020 by Amazon, and a best science and technology book of 2020 by Library Journal. Her New York Times magazine article, “How far does wildlife roam,” was included in the collection, Best American Nature and Science Writing 2022.
