Tag Archive: book proposal

Is Your Big Idea Big Enough For a Book?


How many times have you been perusing the latest non-fiction at a bookstore or at Amazon and thought, “Man, I could have written that one!”?  I know I sure have.  A title catches my eye and it is soon followed by a Homer Simpson “Doh!” and a slap to the forehead.  Lessons learned.  Now I [...]

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This little piggy went to market


The last in a series of how to put together a killer book proposal In part 2 of this series I discussed which components were important to include as part of your nonfiction book proposal.  Two of the key components I mentioned were Competitive Title Analysis and the all important Market Analysis. Competitive title analysis [...]

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How to write the killer book proposal


Part 2 in a series on how to build a perfect book proposal Head on back to see part 1 here. In the first part of this series I made the point that the strategy for publication of a nonfiction book is pretty different from your standard Great American Novel strategy. This really should not [...]

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Sell your book, then go ahead and write it


This is the first post in a series of How to build a perfect book proposal Uh-oh.   What is that crazy Tumblemoose guy up to now?  He’s puttin’ stuff backwards again. I guess I can’t blame you for being a bit gun-shy.  I know I’ve got a habit of turning things upside down in order [...]

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