hemingwaywantabes

Why are some people so thickheaded that they will not listen? Why do they think they know more than ones who have experience and understand how success in the publishing arena is achieved? Why do they want to forge ahead on their own destroying any chance to become published.

Hemingwaywantabes, I am mystified by this but it occurs every day. This is especially true with those aspiring authors who decide, despite advice to the contrary from experts, either to send a manuscript to literary agents and/ or publishers or simply a query letter? With the former, the manuscript normally goes right in the dumpster because agents and publishers don’t have the capacity or the interest to read a manuscript.

Regarding query letters being sent alone to agents or publishers, this is quite risky since it is very difficult to completely describe a book concept in one page, and that is all permitted. Instead, a professionally written query letter should be accompanied by a professionally written book proposal. This despite some agent and publisher websites that request simply a query letter.

The book proposal permits an author to really detail the book concept her or she has in mind. You may look at samples for both fiction and non-fiction from the book presented above by either downloading it or simply copying the appropriate pages. Take a look – and then work to optimize your chances at publication by preparing first the book proposal, and then a query letter based on the text in the proposal. When you do so, then you have a complete sales package, one that clearly defines your book idea.

Don’t be stubborn. Don’t be stupid. To sell your book, you need the query letter and the book proposal. Now get to work