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7 Days To Easy-Money:
Get Paid To Write A Book
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All
non-fiction books are sold on proposal. A book proposal is much
easier to sell than a complete book.
Here are some of the reasons:
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It's easier to read a 20 or 30 page
proposal than a 400 page book;
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It's easier to make changes in the book's
concept at the proposal stage;
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With a proposal, the publisher, in the
person of your editor, can take ownership of the book. It's
like bespoke tailoring: the editor feels that the book has
been specifically written for the publishing house.
Even
if you decide to write your book first, you'll need to create a
proposal once you've written it. No agent or publisher is
interested in reading an entire book to assess its viability.
That's the proposal's job: to ensure that your book has a niche
in the marketplace. As you do your research for the proposal,
you'll work out whether or not your book is likely to sell. You
can shape the book at the proposal stage, much more easily than
you can when it’s a huge stack of print or a giant computer
file.
Sometimes you may get an idea for a book, but the
idea is amorphous, it doesn’t have a real shape. You may want to
write several thousand words to see whether the book becomes
clearer in your mind. But write the proposal before you write
more than ten thousand words, because your book must target a
specific group of buyers.
You
write a proposal step by step. In this ebook, we'll work on your
book proposal together. Each chapter has tasks for you to
complete. Once you've completed all the tasks, you'll have a
book proposal which has an excellent chance of selling.
Here's what we'll cover:
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(Day One) Getting an idea for your book.
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(Day Two) Developing the idea and
expanding on it. Assessing the market. Who needs this book?
What's the competition for the book?
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(Day Three) Writing the blurb. Outlining
your book.
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(Day Four) Researching your book
proposal, and fleshing out your outline.
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(Day Five) Writing a proposal query
letter. Sending your query letters to agents and publishers.
(You send the queries while you're working on the proposal.
This helps you to gauge reaction to your work.)
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(Day Six) Writing the proposal.
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(Day Seven) Writing the sample chapter.
Revising your proposal.
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