| If you are having a tough time preparing a book | | | | if you're going to go through a book agent, you need |
| proposal, then what I'd like to do is recommend a | | | | to make a professional looking proposal package. If |
| very good book on how to write a book proposal. | | | | you make it too plain, it may get thrown out, if you |
| It's a book that I personally own, and highly | | | | make it too flashy, all you're going to get is laughs |
| recommend. The book is; | | | | and giggles from the editors and publishers who are |
| "How to Write a Book Proposal" by Michael Larsen, | | | | reading it and they will be thinking to themselves; |
| 2003. | | | | "who in the hell does this person think he is anyway?" |
| Have you ever wondered how to put together a | | | | The author also explains how to submit sample |
| book proposal to send to an editor or book | | | | chapters, or samples of your work. He also explains |
| publisher? The reality is that these folks are not | | | | the need to create an outline, and most of all he |
| interested in buying books they are interested in | | | | explains the changing industry of the publishing sector. |
| what the book can do in the market to make them | | | | He explains that things are not as they used to be, |
| money. Therefore, your book proposal is really a | | | | that we are in a new publishing paradigm, and how |
| business plan/marketing-sales proposal. Indeed, the | | | | you have to deal with that and still compete with all |
| author wants to make sure that you consider this. He | | | | the other proposals. |
| also explains the value of test marketing, and how to | | | | Indeed, if you truly want to get a book deal, you |
| choose the very best literary agent in going about | | | | need to read this book, and purchase this book and |
| getting a book deal. | | | | put it in your writing library. Please consider all this. |
| He explained if you're going to do it yourself, or even | | | | |