The Fast Track Course on How to Write a Nonfiction Book Proposal

Stephen Blake Mettee is president and publisher, Quill Driver Books/Word Dancer Press, Inc., a California-based publisher of nonfiction books. Mettee is the editor of The Portable Writers’ Conference: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Published, a Writer’s Digest Book Club selection, and has published scads of nonfiction articles on subjects ranging from parenting to business. He is currently working on a book on nonprofit fund-raising for the amateur. Mettee serves on the board of directors of Writer’s International Network-Writer’s Inter-age Network. He was director of WIN-WIN’s annual William Saroyan Writer’s Conference from 1992 to 1997 and continues as chair of the conference. Mettee has taught classes on writing and publishing in a number of venues including the University of California, Davis extension program, the California Library Association’s annual conference and the San Francisco Bay Area Book Festival. He was evaluated as a “highest rating” presenter at the California Writer’s Club Asilomar conference. QDB/WDP is recognized by industry periodical Book Marketing Update as one of the “Top 101 Independent Book Publishers” in the United States. Writer’s Digest magazine identifies QDB/WDP as one of the “100 Best Book Markets for New Writers.” Mettee is always in the market for nonfiction books, particularly California regional titles; writing titles; practical, upbeat encouraging works that enhance the lives of people over 50, for QDB/WDP’s trademarked Best Half of Life series; and concise, clear, how-to books for QDB/WDP’s Fast-Track Course series.