"Writing a book is a really special experience," says Sabrina Imbler, science writer at Defector and author of How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures. "But it also felt very daunting."
Every science writer needs to be adept at finding and honing story ideas-but not all of those ideas would make for a good book. A book idea should be compelling enough that the general public will spend money to read about it and hefty enough to support 80,000 to 100,000 words, Mackenzie Brady Watson, a literary agent at Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency, wrote via email.
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