A traditional deal usually starts with a proposal, not a finished book. These articles cover writing the proposal that lands an agent or editor. What they look for, what makes them say no, and how to give them a reason to say yes.
Author PlatformMost book-proposal advice assumes a big platform. If you have a small audience but real expertise, the proposal has to carry the weight a platform usually would. Here is exactly what changes, what publishers actually look for from low-platform authors,…
AudiobookThe writer's fee is the biggest line item in a ghostwritten book, but far from the only one. A real budget folds in editing, design, publishing, and the optional-but-valuable extras, proposal, marketing, audio. Authors who plan only for the fee…
Amazon & KDPClients usually know they want a book and have barely thought about how it reaches readers, but that choice decides control, speed, money, and whether the book does its job. Three paths are worth weighing. Here is traditional, self-publishing, and…
Book ProposalA professional ghostwriter can turn your expertise into a finished manuscript with your name on the cover, but finding the right one takes effort. Here are 14 questions to ask during your consultation, and what the answers tell you.
Book ProposalGhostwriting is simpler than people assume: you supply the ideas and vision, a professional turns them into a finished book, and your name goes on the cover. That is the whole arrangement. Here is how it works in practice, who…
Book ProposalAfter 54+ books I have fielded every objection to ghostwriting, and most are not real concerns, they are myths that keep qualified people from ever writing the book that could change their career. You lose control. It is only for…
Authority Through AuthorshipAfter ghostwriting 54+ books, the patterns are clear. Certain decisions produce books that generate speaking invitations and consulting leads; others produce books that disappear. Here are the dos and don'ts that make the difference.
Authority Through AuthorshipNothing loses a reader faster in a political book than campaign-ad language, the sweeping promise, the slogan that means nothing. Voters have heard it and been let down, and a book that reads like a stump speech gets treated like…
Book ProposalDecades of experience only become a readable memoir with structure. How to choose an organizing principle, decide what stays, and shape raw memory into a book someone wants to read.
Book ProposalAt seventeen I wrote my first memoir, my grandfather's, a Navy cook captured at Corregidor who survived the POW camps and a march through Manila. The family's version was secondhand and partly wrong, so I interviewed him for dozens of…
Book ProposalMost people picture a book as a product you sell. In business, a book is a tool you use, and the royalties are the least interesting thing about it. The real value is credibility, visibility, and turning strangers into clients.
Book ProposalA book proposal is not a summary of your book; it is a business case arguing that the book will sell, the readers are real, and you are the one to write it, the document that lands a traditional deal.…
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