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I took this book as a Bible. The book's title is a bit narrow; there's lots of good information about how to use the proposal to connect with a literary agent.When I meet authors who are frustrated about their inability to get published, I usually hear that they've skipped one or two steps. I followed every step. The result was great--I'm published.It's not a short process to create a proposal, but going through it helped me write a better book. Don't. Follow through on all the steps.
As a writer friend said to me when she recommended it to me, "this is the best book out there, it walks you through the steps in the order you mentally need to. THE book for a beginner."
I purchased this book hoping for information for my book proposal. I was not disappointed. This book has valuable information and I am happy with my purchases.
Follow it step by step, chapter by chapter, and your book proposal will look quite differently than what you wrote before. If you have started to look for a literary agent, buy this book first. After reading this book, I re-wrote my entire proposal, because the suggestions in this book gave me a better understanding of what I wanted to write, and how to convey my vision of my book to outside parties. If your proposal has been rejected by agents, buy this book. I thought I had read good proposal books until I read this one. If you are having problems outlining your book, defining your chapters, writing a query letter that will impress an agent in the first two sentences, buy this book. How To Pick The Best Tenant Jump Start Your Book Sales: A Money-Making Guide for Authors, Independent Publishers and Small Presses
Whether the glue is poor quality or another problem with the paperback spine, I really wish this much read book had held together better. Explanations help shape the user's thinking about how to develop their book proposal. From one to a few pages, to chuncks of pages, have separated. That said, the book is completely informative, with numerous examples and step by step directions. I wish the writer covered the proposal in order, but I understand her reasoning for covering sections out of order. The book doesn't give much help about how new writers can pad their "About Author" and beef up their personal selling points when they have never been published.Overall, the book is packed with useful info.
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