Parts, chapters, sections, and  subsections: how to organize your nonfiction book

Parts, chapters, sections, and subsections: how to organize your nonfiction book

You’ve written (or plan to write) 40,000 to 70,000 words of brilliant prose. Publishers — and readers — will bring a set of expectations regarding structure to the work. Publishers expect you to know how books are organized, but they rarely discuss those conventions explicitly. So let’s break down how nonfiction books are organized. Chapters…