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Today I continue my long-standing (er, 2-week) struggle to complete my Author Questionnaire for my publisher's marketing & sales department. Current task is to write 25–50 word summaries of each chapter, and I'm gonna tweet them as I write them in case you want to follow along
Introduction
Explains who the book is for and how readers can use it
(This was an easy one)
Explains who the book is for and how readers can use it
(This was an easy one)
Chapter 1: Know the Process
Explains how a book proposal passes through the acquisitions process and the importance of fit when selecting target presses. Tasks help readers identify, research, and evaluate target presses.
Explains how a book proposal passes through the acquisitions process and the importance of fit when selecting target presses. Tasks help readers identify, research, and evaluate target presses.
Chapter 2: Write for Publication
Explains what publishers value in scholarly book projects and how to tailor the proposal to show off those features. Tasks help readers generate raw material for project descriptions and draft a letter of inquiry to introduce the project.
Explains what publishers value in scholarly book projects and how to tailor the proposal to show off those features. Tasks help readers generate raw material for project descriptions and draft a letter of inquiry to introduce the project.
Chapter 3: Find Your Place
Explains what publishers are looking for when they ask for a list of competing or comparable works. Provides tips on selecting the most appropriate comparable works for your book project.
Explains what publishers are looking for when they ask for a list of competing or comparable works. Provides tips on selecting the most appropriate comparable works for your book project.
Chapter 4: Identify Your Audiences and Market
Breaks down the four major audience categories for scholarly books. A task guides readers through recognizing their existing platform as a way to identify probable readers for their books.
Breaks down the four major audience categories for scholarly books. A task guides readers through recognizing their existing platform as a way to identify probable readers for their books.
Chapter 5: Showcase Your Core Thesis
Explains why a pitch for a scholarly book needs to articulate a clear central argument and how a strong argument can expand a book’s readership. Tasks guide readers in distilling their book’s argument in a single paragraph and logline.
Explains why a pitch for a scholarly book needs to articulate a clear central argument and how a strong argument can expand a book’s readership. Tasks guide readers in distilling their book’s argument in a single paragraph and logline.
Chapter 6: Assemble the Overview
Provides a template for compelling project descriptions that convey a book’s argument, contribution, stakes, evidence, methods, narrative arc, and audience.
Provides a template for compelling project descriptions that convey a book’s argument, contribution, stakes, evidence, methods, narrative arc, and audience.
Chapter 7: Expose the Structure
Explains how to write effective chapter summaries that reveal & justify the proposed book’s structure. Emphasizes the imptc of building argument & narrative arc across the bk’s body chs. Defines other bk parts such as prefaces, codas, & appendices
Explains how to write effective chapter summaries that reveal & justify the proposed book’s structure. Emphasizes the imptc of building argument & narrative arc across the bk’s body chs. Defines other bk parts such as prefaces, codas, & appendices
And now it's time for my childcare shift. I'll continue this thread later. Maybe!
