Your query letter helps you get the attention of a literary agent or acquisitions editor at a publishing house, but your nonfiction book proposal keeps these publishing professionals’ attention. This document sells both you and your book. It proves you are a good business partner for a publisher and that your book is a viable, or marketable, product. You see,…
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If your dream of authorship includes traditional publishing, at some point you will need to approach a literary agent to try and obtain representation. Only small, independent publishing houses accept what are called “unagented” submissions. The mid-sized and large published houses all require that book proposals arrive via “agented” submissions. That means your first job involves sending a query letter…
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You’ve almost hit the midpoint of National Nonfiction Writing Month (NaNonFiWriMo). Have you hit a mid-NaNonFiWriMo writing slump or are you still going strong? It’s not uncommon to feel fired up when you begin the Write Nonfiction in November Challenge (WNFIN) only to find your energy burning low about now. You may even find your fire has gone out. If…
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Did you ever think you might need a ghostwriter? Probably not—especially if your dream has always been to write a book and become an author. Yet, many writers hire “ghosts,” as they are called, and the reasons for this don’t all involve having someone else write an entire book for you. Today, on day #12 of National Nonfiction Writing Month…
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You’ve made it to Day #11 of National Nonfiction Writing Month (NaNonFiWriMo). When you decided to take the Write Nonfiction in November (WINFIN) Challenge, you probably had visions of writing daily and churning out 1,500-2,500 words in just an hour or two. It’s possibly, however, that you started out doing just that, but that now you’ve slowed down a bit….
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