How to Write a Nonfiction Book Proposal

OK. So you’ve got this great idea and you just know it will make a best-selling book; even a movie (few writers can resist the movie-thing temptation, myself included). But before you write that first word just after “Chapter One” there are certain things you must do. Think query before the article, job before the house, horse before the cart, etc. You need a book proposal – selling the book concept rather than the book itself. (Fiction books are a different animal as most publishers prefer to see the entire manuscript. Not so with nonfiction material). Be grateful for the time, headache, and heartache a proposal can save you. Think of it as practice for your book – which you can keep producing as your proposal wends its way to the right publisher.

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