Why Didnt I Write That - Chapter 1 Bestselling Nonfiction Books You Could Write

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Why Didn't I Write That? - How To Make $100,000 Writing Nonfiction Books

How Ordinary People Are Raking In As Much As $100,000 A Year, Making Money Writing Books From Home

Notes on Chapter 1

Come of the books listed include:

• Celtic needlepoint, Alice Starmore, 50K copies
• Mark of the Grizzly, Scott McMillion?Create, 50K copies
• Your Baby and Child, Penelope Leach, over 50K copies annually
• Stetching (fitness), Bob and Jean Anderson, over 55K copies annually
• The Joy of Meditating, Salle Redfield, 58,000 copies sold.
• The Flat Tax, Richard Armey, 59K copies sold
• How to live with a neurotic dog, Stephen Baker, 60K copies sold
• Woe is I: The Grammarphone's Guide to Better English, Patricia O'Conner, 60K copies sold
• Surviving the breakup (effects of divorce on the family), Judith Wallerstein, 60K copies sold
• Miracles Happen When You Pray: True Stories of the Remarkable Power of Prayer, Quin Sherrer, 61.4K sold
• Been there, should've done that: 505 tips for making the most of college, Suzette Tyler, 62K sold
• Lies my teacher told me: Everything your American History Textbook Got Wrong, James Loewen, 62K sold
• The Quotable Star Wars, Stephen Sansweet, 63K sold
• Paint Your House With Powdered Milkm, and Hundreds More Offbeat USes for Brand-Name Products, Joey Green, 63K sold
• Fingerprints of the Gods (evidence of a lost civilaciton), Graham Hancock, 65K sold
• You mean I'm not lazy, stupid, or crazy?!: A self help book for adults with attention deficit disorder, Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo, 65K sold
• 101 Best Home Based Businesses for Women, Priscilla Huff, 65K sold
• Breaking the Rules, last Ditch Tactics for Landing the Man of Your Dreams, Laura Banks and Janette Barber, 67.2K sold
• Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus, Lee Strobel, 68K copies sold
• Raising a Daughter, Jeanne and Don Elium, 69K sold
• Do What You Are: Discover the PErfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type, 2nd Ed., PAul Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger, 69K sold
• Almost Vegetarian (cookbook), Diana Shaw, 70K sold
• 199 Great Home Business You Can Start For Under $1,000, Tyler Hicks, 70K sold. This is one of many similar home business titles that Hicks has written, with total sales in the millions.
• The Bindy Body Art Kit (instruction book, bindi paint, and removalbe, self-stick jewels for 12, 13 and 14-year-olds), Beth Margetts, 70K sold
• The Patient's Guide To Prostate Cancer, 70K sold
• The Complete Potter's Companion, Tony Birks, 70K sales to date, 10K annually
• Panic to Power (Anxiety Control), Lucinda Bassett, 72K copies sold
• Civil War Curiosities, Web Garrison, 73K sold
• A Woman's Guide to Tantra Yoga, Vimala McClure?Create, 75K sold
• Smart Love: The Compassionate Alternative to Discipline that Will Mak You A BEtter PArent and Your Child a Better Person, William J. Pieper and Martha Heineman Pieper, 75K sold
• 1001 Sex Secrets Every Woman Should Know, Chris Allen, over 75K sold
• DK Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia, 76K copies sold
• You Know You're Anonymous in Washington When..., Anonymous, 78K sold
• Wonderful Ways to Love A Child, Judy Ford, 78K sold
• Starting on a Shoestring: Building a Business without a Bankroll, Arnold Goldstein, 80,000 copies sold
• The World's Dumbest Criminals, Daniel Butler and Alan Ray, 80K sold
• Life's Little Frustration Book, Jerry McTigue?Create, 80K sold
• The Next Place (A juvenile title on death and dying) Warren Hanson, over 80K sold
• 97 Ways To Make Baby Laugh, Jack Moore, 81K sold
• Polish your Furniture with Pantyhose, Joey Green, 85K sold
  • This is a book about alternate uses for household products. Note that he is also the author of Paint Your House With Powdered Milk, publishers love spinoffs
• Make Your own Time Capsule, Steven Caney, 88,000 copies sold
• Reading People, Jo-Ellan Dimitrius, 89K sold
• American's Dumbest CRiminals, Daniel Butler, 91K sold
• Places Rated Almanac, David Savageau, 92K sold
• Keys to Drawing, Bert Dodson, 95K sold
• Sports Illstrated (lampoon of Sports Illustrated), Richard Sandomir and Rick Wolff, 100K sold
• Are You normal? Bernice Kanner, 100K sold
• Woms East My Garbage (self published title on composting), Mary Appelhof, 100K sold
• Galileo's Daughter: Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love, Dava Sobel, 100K sold
• How To Clean PRactically Anything, Edward Kippel, 100K sold
• When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals, Susan McCarthy?Create and Jeffrey Moussaieff-MAsson, over 100K sold
• Baby Signs: How To Talk To Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk (sign language for babies) Linda Acredolo, and Susan Goodwyn, over 100K sold
• Simply handmade, 365 Easy Gifts and Decorations that You Can Make, Carol Dahlstrom, over 100K sold
• The Physics of Star Trek, LAwrence Krauss, 100K sold
• 35,000 Baby Names, Bruce Lansky, 100K sold
• The Straw Bale House, Athena Swentzell Steen, over 100K sold, eventhough the publisher, Chelsea Green Publishing, says only 2000 of these houses have been built.
• Homemade Money: How to select, start, manage, market, and multiply the profits of a home based business, Barbara Brabec, over 100K sold
• The Bible Jesus Read, Philip Yancey, over 100K copies sold
• Raising Cain: PRotecting the Emotional Life of Boys, Daniel Kindlon, over 100K sold
• Creative Cash: How to Profit from Your Special Artistry, Creativity, and Hand SKills, and Related Kow-How, Barbara Brabec, over 100K sold
• Letters of the Century, Lisa Grunwald and Stephen Adler, over 100K sold
• The New Drawing on the Rigth Side of the BRain, Betty Edwards, over 100K sold
• Never Be Lied To Again, David Lieberman, 101K sold
• Dogs Never Lie about Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs, Jeffrey Moussaieff-Masson, 103K sold
• My Old Man and the Sea: A Father and Son Sail Around CApe Horn, David and Daniel Jayes, over 100K sold
• Surfing the Himalayas, A Spiritual ADventure, Frederick Lenz, over 100K copies sold
• The Complete Book of Juicing, Michael Murray, 100K sold
• 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said, Kathrun and Ross Petras, over 100K sold
• Anatomy of the Spirit: Seven Stages of Power and Healing, Carolyn Mysss and Norman Shealy, over 100K sold
• Guide My Feet: Prayers and Meditations for Our Childre, Marian Edelman, over 100K sold
• Attention Deficit Disorder: Thom Hartman, over 100K sold
• Prospering Woman: A Complete Guide to Living the Full, Abundant Life, Ruth Ross, over 100K copies sold
• You Can Heal Your Life, Louise Hay, 100K annually
• Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, Deepak Chopra, 100K annually
• Wine for Dummies, Ed McCarthy?Create, over 100K sold
• Beer Lover's Rating Guide, Bob Klein, 102K sold
• The Truth s Out There: The Official Third Season Guide to the X-Files, Brian Lowry, 103K sold
• Love Coupons, Gregory J. P. Godek, 104K sold
• A Hummingbird in my House (hummingbirds and their behaviour) Arnette Heidcamp, 105K sold
• The Ditches of Edison County (parody), Ronald Roberts, 105K sold
• Totally Garlic Cookbook, Ellen Siegle, 105K sold
• The Duct Tape Book (humor) Tim Nyberg and Jim Berg, 107K sold
• 365 Outdoor Activities You Can Do With Your Child, Steve and Ruth Bennett, 108K copies sold
• Jesus CEO: Using Ancient Wisdom for Visionary Leadership, Lauri Beth Jones, 113,000 sold
• 1001 Ways to Energize Employees, Bob Nelson, 114K sold
• Don't Squat with yer spurs on! A Cowboy's Guide TO Life, Texas Bix Bender, 114K sold
• Positive Discipline A to Z, Jane Nelsen, 115K, (one of a series with total sales over 1,000,000 copies)
• The Very Best Baby Name Book in the Whole Wide Wide, Bruce Lansky, over 115K copies sold
• The Tao of Inner Peace, Diane Dreher, 118K copies sold
• Drinking: A Love Story, Caroline Knapp, over 120K sold
• The Barbecue Bible, Steven Raichler, 120K sold
• The Complete Book of Essential Oils and AromaTherapy?Create, Valerie Worwood, over 120K sold
• The Complete Book of Bread Machine Baking, Lara Pizzorno, 125K sold
• The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, John Maxwell, 130K sold
• Top Secret Restaurant Recipes, Todd Wilbur, 130K sold
• The Self-Publishing Manual, Dan Poynter, 130K sold
• Fat-Free and Ultra Lowfat Recipes, Doris Cross, over 130K sold
• The Unnofficial Guide to Walt Disney World, Bob Schlinger, 131K sold
• How To Study, Ron Fry, 132k Sold
• Overcoming Depression, Demitri Papolos, 135K sold
• China Moon Cookbook, Barbara Tropp, 135K sold
• Taxes for Dummies, 1999, Eric Tyson and David Silverman, 137K sold
• What Would Jesus Do? (children's) Helen Haidle, 139K sold
• How To Become A Successful Consultant In Your Own Field, Hubert Bermont, 140K sold
• Amazing Grace: Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, Jonathan Kozol, 140K sold

Other examples in the book:

• Leonardo Di Caprio: Modern-Day Romeo and a second title, Leonardo: A Scrapbook in Words and Pictures, sold 500,000 copies each in just their first year of release.
• Hanson: An Unauthorized Biography sold 785,000 copies within months

Why Didn't I Write That? - How To Make $100,000 Writing Nonfiction Books

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