Day: May 16, 2011

The tyranny of book proposals: some guesses about where they came from but no excuses…

If you want to sell a non-fiction book, you have to hand publishers a thirty to fifty-page document which, if done right, provides an overview of the book, summaries of every chapter, a sample chapter, author bio and a section that explains exactly what the market for the book is. The book proposal is painstaking […]