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. [...]
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With my completed proposal for a non-fiction book and a query letter in hand, I set out to find a literary agent. I went no further than the Writer’s Market, the gargantuan doorstop of a reference book for all things writerly. It even came with a CD so that I didn’t have to keep lifting it. Today, there’s even a web site. [...] 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
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