Agent Query Review
When agents receive a written submission from a potential client, their first thoughts are, “Is this a book that I want to handle and can I sell it?” Despite instructions on their Web sites etc., a large majority of the contacts agents receive are surprisingly not about books or subjects they handle. “For all authors, [...]
Writing a Proposal for Your Non-Fiction Book
When I started writing Marines in the Garden of Eden, my goal was to have it published by a traditional publishing house and stocked in every major bookstore in the United States. I signed a publishing contract with Berkley Publishing Group, part of the Putnam/Penguin global publishing giant. Marines in the Garden of Eden appeared [...]
Query Letter Writing Fact and Fiction
Fact: Query Letter Writing is an Art Form. Make no mistake about it, writing queries that produce results is a craft. Fact: A Query Should Not be Written Like a Synopsis. I devoted an entire article to this, yet writers who have read the article continue to send me sample queries that ignore this premise. [...]
Book Proposals That Sell
The subtitle of W. Terry Whalin’s Book Proposals That Sell promises 21 Secrets to Speed Your Success. In fact, those 21 secrets are just a portion of the valuable information in this book. Whalin has been on both sides of the editor’s desk. He not only has experience as an editor at a publishing house, [...]
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