In addition to a sample chapter, a nonfiction
book proposal typically includes an Overview as well as Competitive
Books, Audience, Specifications, Chapter - by - Chapter Outline, and Bio
sections.
A strong
proposal weaves those separate pieces together
in creative and compelling ways, and the Marketing / Publicity
section of your
proposal is where you bring together the best of those with some creative ideas of your own for making your
book a success.
It's a clichéd story for those of us who have been
in publishing for more than five or ten years, but we really did used to write
proposals that included a marketing
section that said something along the lines of «author is willing to go on
book tours and will make themselves available for TV and radio interviews.»
Cardboard box containing 1 exhibition catalogue and 17 artists
books / artists publications: Mel Bochner, Misunderstandings (A theory of photography); Christo, Packed Tower - Spoleto (
proposals & projects); Jan Dibbets, perspective correction - 5 piles; Tom Gormley, Red File Cabinet; Dan Graham, Two Parallel Essays: Two Related Projects for Slide Projector & Photographs of Motion; Douglas Huebler, Location Piece # 2, New York City - Seattle, Washington; Allan Kaprow, Pose, March 22nd, 1969 continued 1970; Michael Kirby, Pont Neuf: the localization of a tetrahedron
in space; Joseph Kosuth, Notebook on Water; Sol LeWitt, Schematic drawing for Muybridge II, 1964 (7/69); Richard Long, Rain Dance; Robert Morris, Continuous Project Altered Daily; Bruce Nauman, LAAIR; Dennis Oppenheim, FLOWER ARRANGEMENT FOR BRUCE NAUMAN; Robert Rauschenberg, Revolver; Ed Ruscha, Babycakes; Robert Smithson, Torn Photograph from the 2nd Stop (Rubble)(2nd Mountain of Six Stops on a
Section); Bernar Venet, Exploited Subjects; Andy Warhol, Portraits.