Book Proposals: The Essential Guide

You’ve written a great book. It deserves publication and a wide readership. But you have no idea how to find a publisher.
This guide will help with the presentation of your book and the route towards an interested publisher or agent. It is important to get every step right to give your book a successful opportunity of being published.

The proposal has to be your best writing, show your ingenuity, your individuality, your particular talent. The book proposal is your unique advertisement and your one chance to catch an editor’s attention.

But it’s a minefield out there. Watch out for unexpected traps and pitfalls. Use this book to defuse them. Make this book your personal canon, make notes all over the blank pages! That’s what they are for. So fingers crossed, best of luck and acres of four-leaf clover.

‘A day without writing is a day wasted. Our writing, whatever genre, generates inner strength and contentment.’ Stella Whitelaw