Picking up where I left off, you now need to take long hard look at any other blogs that might compete with your blogged book. You do this to ensure not that you are the only one blogging on your topic but that you are blogging on the topic from a unique angle. You want […]
Promotion: This Means Getting Social
For a blogged book, promotion means, “What are you going to do to tell the cyber world your blog exists?” How will you sell your blog? This is where you add your social hat to your business hat, because to gain readers you must promote yourself and your blog via social networking. Otherwise, how will […]
Subsidiary Rights and Spin-Offs
If you were submitting to an agent or publisher, the next part of a proposal you would write would be the one called subsidiary rights. When you sell your book to a publishing house, the publisher acquires primary rights. This enables them to sell the book as is or in adapted or condensed form. To […]
Markets: Who Will Read Your Blogged Book?
On to the next proposal section included under the “Introduction” heading: Markets. As I mentioned in my last post, you now need to make sure you are wearing your business person hat. No writer’s hats allowed. It’s time to meet your readers or to discover how many readers your blog might be able to […]
Overview: The Features and Benefits of Your Book
Now that you have a pitch, it’s time to actually write the overview of your book. Typically, an overview begins with a paragraph or two that hook the reader. This isn’t much different from an article; the beginning of the overview could be considered your “lead.” Next, insert your pitch. This is followed by a […]
Overview: Write a Pitch for Your Book
Now that you have a title for your book and you know what your book is about, it’s time to write a pitch. This is your “elevator speech,” the one you’d give to an agent or an acquisition editor if you happened to meet them in an elevator or at a conference. Writing a pitch […]
Overview: Create a Title for Your Book
Your blogged book (or any book) needs a title, and possibly a subtitle, that entices readers into its pages or posts. Sometimes books have creative titles; however, many nonfiction books have tell-it-like-it-is titles that let readers know exactly what they will find within a book’s pages. To come up with a great title, you need […]
The Overview: Your Book’s Message
The first section of your book proposal, your overview, includes a lot of information. If you actually write the proposal and submit it to an agent, this section will have a hook (like the lead to an article), a pitch, details about page numbers, illustrations, etc., and a possibly a brief look at your markets. […]
The Parts of a Proposal
You can find many books on how to write a book proposal. Lots of information exists on the Internet as well. In my experience, the following list, which is divided into two sections—Introduction and Outline, includes the fourteen vital sections of a book proposal Sometimes these sections are included in a different order; some books […]
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