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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
People ask me all the time how to get a non-fiction book published – not in so many words, of course. In this and the next several blog entries, I will spell out exactly what I did. [...] August 28th, 2009 | Tags: author, book, first, non-fiction, published, schuster, simon, time, writer, Writing | Category: Non-Fiction | Leave a comment
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