Book Proposals
July 19th 2007 15:39
Good morning everyone,
Hope everyone is good today. As I have mentioned numerous times before, I have written a children's book and am working on a non-fiction book. For a non-fiction book you need to create a book proposal first. I have to say, that between the proposals and the query letters, I am having a tough time. I think the query letter is looking decent, but I don't think the proposal is coming along nicely at all. I want it to be the best possible proposal, obviously, because you only get one shot with editors or agents. I have thought about posting the job of writing a proposal for me on Guru.com . It is a site that I have had a little bit of success on with hiring an editor to look over my manuscript. I haven't hired somebody to do the actual work. Guru is great, but you have all levels of professionals on it. I have heard from some people that they hired people to do things that didn't turn out as good as the job they would have done. On the other hand, I have heard about some good success on there as well. Who knows? I will try it for myself and see, but if worse comes to worse, I might try it on Guru. I also agonized yesterday, that I made some big mistakes recently. I opened my mail box and saw a large brown envelope. I was at first excited, because I have started sending out query letters. But before I even reached in, it occured to me that they wouldn't send anything in a large envelope, they would use the SASE that I included. I took it out and realized that it was the same envelope that I sent. It was returned for insufficient postage. I sent out a lot of them and now I will have to see them all coming back for the same reason. I will have to resend everything, pushing back my wait time even longer than I thought. Just depressing, but what can I do. Gotta keep my head up. Anyway, that's it for now. Have to go do my online class. Hope you all have a great day.
Later,
Jonathan
Hope everyone is good today. As I have mentioned numerous times before, I have written a children's book and am working on a non-fiction book. For a non-fiction book you need to create a book proposal first. I have to say, that between the proposals and the query letters, I am having a tough time. I think the query letter is looking decent, but I don't think the proposal is coming along nicely at all. I want it to be the best possible proposal, obviously, because you only get one shot with editors or agents. I have thought about posting the job of writing a proposal for me on Guru.com . It is a site that I have had a little bit of success on with hiring an editor to look over my manuscript. I haven't hired somebody to do the actual work. Guru is great, but you have all levels of professionals on it. I have heard from some people that they hired people to do things that didn't turn out as good as the job they would have done. On the other hand, I have heard about some good success on there as well. Who knows? I will try it for myself and see, but if worse comes to worse, I might try it on Guru. I also agonized yesterday, that I made some big mistakes recently. I opened my mail box and saw a large brown envelope. I was at first excited, because I have started sending out query letters. But before I even reached in, it occured to me that they wouldn't send anything in a large envelope, they would use the SASE that I included. I took it out and realized that it was the same envelope that I sent. It was returned for insufficient postage. I sent out a lot of them and now I will have to see them all coming back for the same reason. I will have to resend everything, pushing back my wait time even longer than I thought. Just depressing, but what can I do. Gotta keep my head up. Anyway, that's it for now. Have to go do my online class. Hope you all have a great day.
Jonathan
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