Book Proposal: How to Write It and When to Use It
A Publishing Starting Point: "How to Write the Perfect Book Proposal" Jeff Herman and Deborah Levine Herman
How Do You Get Your Book Published?
In 2007, I decided to write the book that had occupied space in my head for years. It was a book about motherhood. The book would be honest, helpful, pragmatic and funny – all the things that I was looking for in a book when I had my first baby. My first step was to write the darn thing. Well, at least 80% of it. My next step was to find a publisher.
The one thing that I did not want to do was to buy a book to teach me how to publish a book. However, after months of scouring the internet in order to teach myself without luck, I finally relented and purchased the book that had popped up again and again in my internet searches.
That book was titled Write the Perfect Book Proposal by Jeff Herman and Deborah Levine Herman. Buying it was one of the best decisions I ever made. I had selected the perfect book to help me in my publishing endeavor. To my surprise the book was so much more to me than a proposal writing guide.
So Little Can Yield So Much
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