Friday, August 30, 2013

Book Proposal

Read Jeremiah 43-45

Jeremiah 42:2 "And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the Lord thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:)"

We send a book proposal to a publisher or agent to whet their appetites. If they like what we send, they may ask to see more and may offer a contract.

For a novel, they will want the book to be written first. Unless we already have a good fiction track record, no one is likely to take a chance on us being able to do what we say we will do in the proposal.

Nonfiction is different. It is possible to get a contract based on the proposal alone—we just need to be persuasive enough.

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