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September 9, 2014 by Nina Amir 4 Comments

How My Blog Saved Me From the Publishers’ Slush Pile

For years—as in a lot of years—I tried to land a traditional book publishing deal. No luck. Not that I didn’t get great feedback on my ideas, writing, book titles, and book proposals. I did. Every bit of positive feedback, however, came with that dreaded word: “But.” It was followed by six more words: “But…you […]

Filed Under: Landing an Agent or Traditional Publisher Tagged With: agent, proposal, publisher, Query Letter, slush pile, traditional publishing

June 22, 2010 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

Market Your Blogged Book to an Agent or Publisher

  Okay, so you’re a traditional publishing holdout, and this blogged book exercise managed to get you to write your whole manuscript but didn’t get you discovered. Now it’s time to get that proposal written and approach an agent or a small to mid-sized publisher. In this case, you must do two things: write a […]

Filed Under: Landing an Agent or Traditional Publisher, Query Letter, The Proposal Tagged With: agent, contract, proposal, publisher, Query Letter

April 23, 2010 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

Creating a Platform for You and Your Book

The publishing world has changed dramatically over the last decade. No longer can you simply present an agent or a publisher with a good idea and good writing and expect to get a contract in return. You must prove that you already have people ready and waiting to purchase your book as soon as it […]

Filed Under: Parts of the Proposal, Platform Tagged With: platform, platform building, Promotion, proposal, publicity

April 22, 2010 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

Are You on a Mission?

I’d just like to mention today that if you are writing a proposal, you want to include a mission statement after your author’s bio. You’ve already worked on that. Remember this post? Not every book on writing a book proposal includes the “Mission Statement” section; in fact, most don’t. It’s a fairly new section. However, […]

Filed Under: Mission Statement Tagged With: book proposal, buyers, mission, Mission Statement, proposal, publishers, purpose, readers

March 7, 2010 by ninaamir 3 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Parts of the Proposal, The Proposal Tagged With: parts of a proposal, proposal, sections of a proposal, w

March 3, 2010 by ninaamir 5 Comments

How to Begin Blogging Your Book: Identify Your Book’s Theme (part 4)

(Note: A post was added after part 1 of “How to Begin Blogging Your Book.” That’s what happens when you blog a book in real time. Sometimes you realize you’ve written something in the wrong order.”) Lest you wonder why I’m focusing so much on your blogged book’s subject, theme, etc., let me explain. Part […]

Filed Under: How to Begin Blogging a Book Tagged With: idea, proposal, subtopics, theme, topic

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