GenresNon-fiction
Career
Work as a long game, not a job advert.
A career book helps someone think about work as a long stretch rather than as the job they are panicking about this month. Searching, changing fields, going freelance, or trying to get a fairer deal inside a profession all belong here. The reader is practical and a little wary. They have read promises before. Tell them what the advice assumes about education, location, caring responsibilities, and money, because a strategy that ignores those is a strategy for someone else.
Information dates quickly in this subject, so lean on principles you can illustrate with current examples, and say when a tactic depends on a particular market. Stories of dramatic reinvention are fine in small doses. Most readers need the next conversation, the next piece of work, the next way of describing what they can already do. Include the politics of workplaces. Pretending that merit is the only thing that happens in an office is a good way to write a book that sincere people will try, and then blame themselves for.
The kinds of book inside it
Job search
Applications, interviews, and the messy way hiring actually works, written so that the reader can do something different this week.
Career change
Moving fields is the problem, and the book should be honest about time, money, and the skills that transfer, as well as the ones that don't.
Freelance
Working for yourself is explained with clients, cash flow, and isolation included, not only with the freedom that looks good in the introduction.
Women at work
The particular bargains and barriers women meet at work are the subject, and the advice should not assume a life with no one else depending on it.
When you want a first sketch, Storywell can draft a contents list in this vein. You are still the one who writes the book. Compose an idea.