Books about health, mind, and body comprise a major genre but they also cross over into the self-help and spiritual categories. So, for example, a book titled A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (by Eckhart Tolle) can be found in the health/mind/body section of the bookstore and also where books about spirituality and self-help are located.

The health/mind/body genre contains many subdivisions, including: mental health, death and grief, psychology and counseling, diet and weight loss, exercise and fitness, nutrition, and sex. If you want to write a book in this genre, you will find it helpful to have some degree of expertise. For example, if you want to write about nutrition or weight loss, you should be a nutritionist or in the medical field. If you want to write about grief recovery or breaking addiction, you should be a mental health professional. Of course, if your research, interviews, and possibly even your own real-life experiences are impressive, you may qualify to write such a book without a formal degree.

As you'll see in Chapter 10, books in this genre are written in a style similar to self-help books. In other words, you'll adopt a friendly, conversational tone while informing and instructing and, like self-help books, they are enjoyable to write. Consider some of the bestselling titles in this category: