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Nina Amir - Short Bio

Nina Amir is a seasoned journalist, nonfiction editor, author, consultant, and writing coach and publishing mentor with more than 30 years of experience in the publishing field as well as the founder of Write Nonfiction in November, a blog and writing challenge. Currently, she also serves as the national Jewish Issue Examiner and a staff writer at Grocery Headquarters magazine. She also is a popular speaker on topics related to publishing and writing.

Amir holds a BA in magazine journalism from Syracuse University’s S.I Newhouse School of Public Communication with a concentration in psychology. An award winning journalist, she has edited or written for more than 45 local, national and international magazines, newspapers, e-zines, and newsletters on a full-time or freelance basis producing hundreds of articles. Her essays have been published in five anthologies and can be found in numerous e-zines and Internet article directories.

She also has a proven track record as a book editor; one of Amir’s client’s books (Enlightened Leadership) was self-published and then purchased and re-released verbatim by Simon & Schuster (Fireside) and another (Radical Forgiveness) won the 1998 Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Award (Inspirational category), received a contract from William Morrow but remained self-published and went on to sell over 115,000 copies; recently Radical Forgiveness was purchased by Sounds True. Another of her client's books (Finding Heaven Here) recently was purchased by O-Books, a fast-growing British publisher. Her clients' proposals regularly get them contracts with agents as well.

As a publishing mentor, Amir teaches workshops, teleseminars and classes on how to get published. She also speaks to organizations, writing groups and at conferences on topics related to writing, getting published, building platform, and realizing the dream of becoming a published author. She works with individual aspiring authors not only on their manuscripts but on staying inspired as they maneuver their way through the sometimes long and arduous path to becoming published.

 Nina Amir - Long Bio