Guest: NAIWE’s Nonfiction Expert Amy Waters Yarsinske

Interested in writing nonfiction books? Learn from one of the best! In this webinar, Amy Waters Yarsinske, who has published over 85 nonfiction books, shares the ins and outs of the nonfiction world. She tells her personal story as well to show how she has always been a writer at heart, even though she went on an adventurous path before she began writing full time.

Here’s what you can expect to learn in this class:

  • Tips for researching and performing interviews

  • Personality characters that benefit writers

  • What to talk about when working on a manuscript

  • Benefits and challenges of artificial intelligence

  • Advantages of going through the traditional publishing process

  • The importance of networking and building connections

Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes

Amy Waters Yarsinske is the author of several best-selling, award-winning nonfiction books, published regionally, nationally, and internationally. Amy’s proposal technique was featured in literary agent/author Peter Rubie’s Telling the Story: How to Write and Sell Narrative Nonfiction; she also did a National Press Club panel with Rubie during the No One Left Behind press tour. She has been a regular contributor with international, national, and regional media, to include continued guest spots on national radio. An American in the Basement: The Betrayal of Captain Scott Speicher and the Cover-up of His Death won the Next Generation Indie Book Award for General Non-fiction in 2014, and No One Left Behind: The Lt. Comdr. Michael Scott Speicher Story earned her literary awards, an incredible press tour, and national/international recognition. With over 30 years in the publishing industry, Amy has published over 85 nonfiction books, most of them spotlighting current affairs, the military, history and the environment with a few biographies and corporate histories interspersed. Amy graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she earned her bachelor of arts in English and economics and the University of Virginia School of Architecture, where she earned her Master of Planning and was a DuPont Fellow and Lawn/Range resident.