The Great First Impression Book Proposal: Everything You Need to Know About Selling Your Book in Twenty Minutes or Less

Amazon, 2007, Digital

Product Description

As time goes on, learning to write a proposal is becoming more important for more kinds of writing. In today's rushed world, no one wants to spend lots of time learning to write a proposal. Learning to write a proposal that works is essential. âThe Great First Impression Proposalâ tells writer everything they need to know about selling a book or article idea in one, quick Amazon Short.

Product Details

Title: The Great First Impression Book Proposal: Everything You Need to Know About Selling Your Book in Twenty Minutes or Less
Sales Rank: 327944 in Books
Author: Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Publisher: Amazon, 2007-10-19, Digital, 18 pages

Customer Reviews

Extremely Disappointing: I'm VERY surprised that there were 12 reviews raving about this text. I find it hard to believe that they were all objective reviews by people unknown to the author (although I recognize that's certainly possible). I normally would not even take the time to write a review if I did not think that, in this case, it's warranted.
First of all, the… More reviews

The Great First Impression Book Proposal: Everything You Need to Know About Selling Your Book in Twenty Minutes or Less: I've always thought that fiction writers don't need to write book proposals, but according to Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of The Frugal Book Promoter and The Frugal Editor - some publishers now ask their novelists to write them especially if they're under contract for more than one novel, genre novels and novels that are part of a series. Remind… More reviews

The Queen of Tips Turns to Book Proposals: Carolyn Howard-Johnson has made a career of taking complex topics, boiling them down to their essence,and providing the core information to recalcitrant writers like me. In this short, she tackles the topic of book proposals.
Yawn!
Book proposals?
Okay. Carolyn's smart. Carolyn's experienced. Carolyn's well-known in the industry. Carolyn knows stuff.
Like a teenaged… More reviews

The Great First Impression Book Proposal: Writing a good book proposal is crucial. You can sit down and write the most well written, thought provoking book ever conceived. Your novel might be so noteworthy that it is going to eliminate global warming, bring universal peace, and heal the ozone layer all in one fell swoop. But, unfortunately, if your proposal isn't up to standard, your work will… More reviews

An excellent guide to writing a book proposal: As writers, many of us have been faced with the prospect of writing a book proposal. To some of us this is a stressful chore. "The Great First Impression Book Proposal" helps to make this task less mind numbing. Howard-Johnson lays out the essentials needed to write a book proposal that will not only get read by the gatekeepers but hold their attention. More reviews