![]() ![]() ![]() So you need to try to make the proposal as accessible as possible. ![]() In most cases, editors and publishers (the publisher is the business person who runs the publishing house – s/he’s the editor’s boss) are often very young, often in their 20’s or 30’s. You can’t be subtle and can’t be modest: if you are, at least half the people reading your proposal just won’t get it.Īccessibility. A proposal is a sales tool that the agent uses to sell the book to the editor – the editor uses to sell the book to the publisher and other editors, to the marketing people, possibly to booksellers and other publishers (for foreign sales), and so forth. Keep the following issues in mind when you’re actually sitting down to write your proposal: We’re not talking about a long document – anywhere from 10 to 60 pages – but it’s a crucial one. Instead of the book, then, you write a “proposal” – a business plan that tells the publisher how you propose to write the book. When selling nonfiction, you don’t have to write the entire book: in fact, it’s often preferable not to, since that way the editor and publisher can put their own “spin” on the project, provide their own input to make it as marketable as possible to the audience that they (and you) intend to target. ![]()
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