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Title: How to Write a Book Proposal by Michael Larsen ISBN: 0-89879-771-3 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.53 (32 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Compleat Guide to the subject
Comment: The one thing a book on this subject must have, above all else, is brevity. Michael Larsen's suitably thin volume has this and many other qualities, making it a very useful tool for the writer who seriously wishes to publish. I can't say whether it actually works or not, as I have not yet sent off a proposal based on this work. However, I have laboriously put together one proposal (for a book which missed its deadline and has become, at least for the moment, rather defunct) using this work as a guide. I can affirm that its wisdom is distilled in sufficiently short order so that it is possible to find your way about in it all, as you are trying to come to grips with the finer details (and not forget anything). A larger book would, in contrast, have you wallowing. In any case, Larsen has built this text from his own experience: he knows it works and he manages to convey that sort of confidence to the reader of "How to Write a Book Proposal." Anyone thinking of writing something publishable would do well to get this beforehand - much of the roadwork can be done on the way and it helps enormously to know what your chances are, before coughing up 200,000 words or more on a subject that no-one will publish anyway.
To anyone trying to publish a book in the future, I therefore say: good luck, and you can increase your chances by reading and understanding this book first.
Rating: 3
Summary: Helpful But Could Be Better
Comment: This book has a lot of good information but I was disappointed in the proposal examples. Everyone reading this book would not necessarily have published three or four books. I doubt that people who have written that many books would need to buy a book on how to write a proposal. It would have been helpful had the author included an example of a new, unpublished writer's proposal.
Rating: 5
Summary: A practical, step-by-step, 280-page "how to" guide
Comment: Now in its third edition, How To Write A Book Proposal by Michael Larsen is a practical, step-by-step, 280-page "how to" guide to creating a successful book proposal. Ranging from test-marketing the potential of a book idea; to choosing the best agents and editors; to creating a professional quality proposal package; to negotiating the best possible offer from publishers, and so much more, How To Write A Book Proposal is a superbly organized, highly accessible, "must-read" reference for aspiring writers and authors seeking to become financially successful professionals.
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Title: Write the Perfect Book Proposal: 10 That Sold and Why, 2nd Edition by Jeff Herman, Deborah Levine Herman ISBN: 0471353124 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 04 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Nonfiction Book Proposals Anybody Can Write: How to Get a Contract and Advance Before Writing Your Book by Elizabeth Lyon, Natasha Kern ISBN: 039952827X Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Literary Agents: What They Do, How They Do It, and How to Find and Work with the Right One for You, Revised and Expanded by Michael Larsen ISBN: 047113046X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 30 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Fast Track Course on How to Write a Nonfiction Book Proposal by Stephen Blake Mettee ISBN: 188495622X Publisher: Word Dancer Pr Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Shortest Distance Between You and a Published Book by Susan Page ISBN: 0553061771 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 12 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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