Nina Amir shows how words can make a difference through books that spark change, start movements, and make this a better world. Change the World One Book At a Time will teach those who want to write for change how to produce books that serve as potent tools for transformation. Like Becoming a Citizen Activist meets Writing to Change the World , this nonfiction reference book will provide activists, coaches, healers, clergy, speakers, leaders, writers, and anyone who wants to write a book that makes a difference with a comprehensive guide to understanding the change process, building engaged communities around their missions, and writing books that move readers to action. Writing has the potential to effect change. Yet, until now, writers who want to inspire and motivate change with their books have faced a roadblock: a lack of guidance through the process. Nina Amir, seasoned Author Coach and San Francisco Writers Conference track coordinator, removes that obstacle.  Change the World One Book at a Time provides activists, coaches, healers, clergy, speakers, leaders, writers, and anyone who wants to write a book that makes a difference with a comprehensive guide to understanding the change process, building engaged communities around their missions, and writing books that move readers to action.  This essential resource details how to become a writer with the ability to produce books that serve as potent tools for transformation. “Authors of Change” make a difference by sparking change, starting movements, and fostering causes or missions with their published words. As a result, they make the world a better place.  While a variety of books have been published on how to become an author, none have focused on providing strategies specifically geared toward writers who want to inspire and motivate change... until now. These writers need a better-than-average manual on how to write and publish transformational books. Now they have one. As Lao Tzu once said, “a journey of ten thousand miles begins with a single step,” so Nina Amir guides authors to take their first decisive step, to follow in the footsteps of the committed and courageous in her inspiring new book, Change the World One Book at a Time. Amir scales this vast, daunting goal into milestones, achievable benchmarks, and directional guideposts, using tools and strategies that show how to complete a manuscript with the potential to move readers toward transformation. Her effective, three-step process of Activate, Motivate, and Write, begins with the author and ends with readers who seek the same goals in a creative interchange of words and ideas. For authors who feel called during these demanding times, Amir provides a roadmap to produce a book that wields the power of change, step by step. —Kate Farrell, author of Story Power: Secrets to Creating, Crafting, and Telling Memorable Stories and The Fairy Tale Heroine: Live and Create Her Journey "Change doesn't happen because you wrote something. It happens because you built trust before you asked for attention, because you saw your readers clearly enough to meet them where they are, and because you cared enough to do the hard work of actually understanding how transformation works. This isn't a book about writing. It's a book about mattering. The writing is just the tool." — Seth Godin, author of This is Marketing "For writers who wish to make a real difference, this comprehensive guide is a must-read. As author Amir acknowledges in the first chapter of this book, attempting to become an author of change can feel hugely daunting—but 'someone needs your book.' In Change the World One Book at a Time, she leads (and cheerleads) you through every step of the journey—from clarifying your message for yourself to putting it on the page in a way that will most effectively reach an audience—making what might otherwise feel like an overwhelming challenge accessible for all." — Brooke Warner, author of  Write on, Sisters!  and publisher of She Writes Press "Bookstores are filled with books that entertain and inform. Books that change lives and the world are harder to find, and many of them don’t ever have an impact. This book makes it possible for writers to understand their audiences, build communities around their causes, and become what Nina Amir calls 'Authors of Change.' This is a must-read if you are writing for change."— Scott Lorenz, Westwind Book Marketing "The best books inspire positive change. They guide us through times of turmoil in our lives and in the world. They inspire us to stay in there and write our way toward progress. Nina Amira’s Changing the World One Book at a Time is precisely that type of powerful book. Brava, Nina, for lighting the way to a new generation of revelatory writing!"— Nita Sweeney, bestselling author of Depression Hates a Moving Target "As Lao Tzu once said, 'a journey of ten thousand miles begins with a single step,' so Nina Amir guides authors to take their firs