Remember, you're selling two
things in your book proposal: your manuscript and yourself as the author - expert.
Not exact matches
The background assumption of this
book means, finally, that so far as its content is concerned the best hope of saying
things of general relevance to persons involved
in all types of theological schooling today lies
in making some particular and fairly concrete
proposals that may turn out to be directly pertinent only to a few types of theological schools but may provoke and help other persons
in other types of schools to think through these issues for themselves.
Another
thing I did with Erika was communicate more of her credibility
in her query letter and
book proposal.
# 1
thing I see
in query letters and
book proposals: «I'm going to start a blog, get a FB page, start tweeting.»
If you've already written a
book proposal — or pitched your work and been told to go develop your platform — then you're probably thinking
in terms of, «How quickly can I build this
thing so I can go back to Ms. Agent with the numbers she wants?»
There was a detailed chapter breakdown
in my
book proposal, but
things didn't go according to that careful plan.