A Great Query (and Pitch) The Key to Get Your Book Seen and Sold
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Query and Book Proposal – Get to Know These Terms
There are two book marketing terms that are important to understand regardless of how you decide to publish your book, either to traditionally publish or self-publish. The two terms are “query” and “book proposal.” In this article, we focus on query.
Once you write your book, either fiction or non-fiction, you may decide to submit your book to an agent or a publisher to traditionally publish your book. There are two kinds of traditional publishers: publishers that accept unsolicited submissions and publishers that only accept submissions from an agent. In either case, they do not want your entire manuscript. They simply want a query.
Note: Even if you decide to self-publish, it is still a good idea to prepare a query. For one, a query and may be needed to secure book distribution. Two, the process of writing the query will aid in the preparation of your media kit (marketing materials) which may include: a press release, back book cove…
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