Another audience is crucial to consider as you compose your book proposal—the editor(s), agent(s), and marketing staff who may read the proposal. You may be so fortunate as to actually know the person or people for whom you are writing. If so, your task will be easier. If you are writing for an audience you [...]
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Writing a Book Proposal Pt 4
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Writing a Book Proposal Pt 3
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Who’s your audience? Especially during an economic downturn and at a time when print publishers are trying to figure out what’s next, conceiving and presenting a book proposal that is likely to garner a large audience could be the difference between being published or not. I think about this in two ways: 1) Writing for [...]
Writing a Book Proposal Pt 2
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Easley Blackwood, Jr., pianist and composer, was my instructor for an independent study course in composition when I was in college. He once told me that there were two ways to approach any art: one was having made as full a study as possible of all of the details, including what others in the field [...]
Writing a Book Proposal Pt 1
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Of my published books, some have been proposed by the publisher, and I competed with other authors for the opportunity to write them; some have been proposed directly to me with no other authors competing; and some have been based on original ideas of my own, written up in convincing proposals that led publishers to [...]
