You can read his posts for what they are — an attempt to show what acquisitions editors want to
see in your book proposal.
Not exact matches
I am also hoping to put together another
book proposal for Princeton
in the next few months, but we'll
see about that, there are only so many hours
in the day.
For a more comprehensive look at the state's revenue and budget challenges,
see the Fiscal Policy Institute's 2018 - 2019 budget briefing
book, which includes a discussion of many other progressive pro-revenue tax
proposals which would generate billions of dollars that New York needs to remain competitive
in the future.
Intrigued, Finkel is soon off to visit Longo
in prison and
in no time he's pitching a
book proposal to a publisher,
seeing in telling Longo's story a chance to redeem his own journalistic career.
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While I am not an educator, I can
see the flaws
in the
book authors»
proposals.
If you look around our school on a typical afternoon, you will
see sixth graders studying botany and history by planting tomatoes
in our garden and building models of ancient aqueduct systems, third graders using research to design
proposals for more diverse
books in our libraries, and kindergartners buzzing as they return from interviewing local business owners
in downtown Durham.
I want readers of my The Frugal Editor that shows people how to edit their own material like
book proposals and media releases when they absolutely must and guides them
in finding editors when they should to
see this.
If you write nonfiction and have a stellar platform, meaning you speak regularly or
see large amounts of clients on a regular basis, you might be able to submit your
book with the three sample chapters
in your
proposal.
This is absolutely critical for nonfiction authors, and while an impressive following isn't as important
in fiction, we do look to
see if the author knows how to promote their
books and has included ideas, statistics, and examples
in the
book proposal.
I
see Too - Late Thirty
in a lot of query letters and
book proposals when they discuss promotion plans, and it sends chills up my spine — and not
in a good way.
# 1 thing I
see in query letters and
book proposals: «I'm going to start a blog, get a FB page, start tweeting.»
These are the # 1 elements I
see in a promo plan
in book proposals that make me want to toss myself
in front of a herd of rabid camels:
Publishers are
in business to make money and they want to
see that they will make a profit on your work — that's where your
book proposal comes
in.
«Researching Don't Even Think About It, which I
see as the most important
book published on climate change
in the past few years, George Marshall discovered that there has not been a single
proposal, debate or even position paper on limiting fossil fuel production put forward during international climate negotiations.