In order to get a publisher to buy your book, you have to
send in a book proposal.
Not exact matches
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.
Unlike
in fiction, where a completed manuscript is necessary when
sending out query letters, many non-fiction authors seal their contract using a
book proposal before their
book is even written.
Actually, you have to
send in several
book proposals, because the first publisher simply is not going to take it.
There are quite a number of
book publishing companies
in Boston for any author to
send their manuscripts and
proposals to.
I told them that it was part of my memoir -
in - progress, so they asked me to
send them my
book proposal.
This experience led me to
sending a factual
book proposal on a historical subject into a well known publisher which is
in final negotiation.
If you know that a particular acquisitions editor is actively acquiring
books in your field, you can skip the query letter and
send a
proposal, but it should still get right to the point.
I
sent out my first
book proposal in 2007, I think.
In nearly 20 years of legal publishing nobody has ever
sent me a
proposal for a
book on football and international law.
I never envisioned publishing encyclopedia entries on Islamic philosophers, writing about critical thinking pedagogy, investigating the doctrine of stare decisis, or
sending out
book proposals (as you might guess, it's the «jack - of - all - trades» syndrome, but I'm more interested
in the politics and ethics of intellectual responsibility than professional standing and status): nothing could have been further from my mind!