After signing a contract with literary agent Jane Dystel, my first task was to rewrite my non-fiction book proposal for her. I received in the mail an example of what she was looking for and also some specific changes in the proposal that I had originally sent to her. It was a pretty extensive rewrite. [...]
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September 3rd, 2009 | Tags: agent, book, dystel, jane, literary, non-fiction, proposal, rewriting, writer, Writing | Category: Non-Fiction | Leave a comment
From the outset, my query letter met with some amount of success. I’ll take some credit for having written a solid query, but it was also the right topic at the right time. The popularity of tattoos was soaring, many of the books that had been published about tattoos were older, and the tattoo book glut had yet to begin in earnest. [...] You may have noticed in my last post about how I wrote my non-fiction book proposal that the class that I took was ten weeks long but it only took nine to write it. That’s because the last week of the class was devoted to writing a query letter. Why write a book proposal if you’re not going to actually try to get a book published? [...] August 31st, 2009 | Tags: agent, author, book, first, industry, letter, literary, non-fiction, proposal, publisher, publishing, query, time, write, Writing | Category: Non-Fiction | Leave a comment
Now that you have a fabulous idea for your non-fiction best seller, Step 2 is to write the proposal. It took me exactly nine weeks to write the first draft of my proposal and the reason I know that is because I took a class to do it. [...] August 30th, 2009 | Tags: author, book, class, download, extension, non-fiction, online, pdf, proposal, sample, ucla, writer, Writing | Category: Non-Fiction | Leave a comment
Step 1 in getting a non-fiction book published is having an outstanding idea for a book. In fact, having many ideas is even better. I maintain a database where I file ideas, plans, and/or outlines as they occur. And while I think I’ve come up some good book ideas, they have not (yet) become books. [...] August 29th, 2009 | Tags: author, book, fantabulous, greg, idea, ideas, james, non-fiction, proposal, publish, tattoo, writer, Writing | Category: Non-Fiction | Leave a comment
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