Links to Proposal Samples

[wgjones3]

Okay, there was the thread by Nighthawk with the link to the Thomas Nelson article on writing a proposal. I found another sample at the Alive Communications website.

http://www.alivecom.com/SampleProposal/fictionproposal.htm

I thought if anybody else found one, they could post to this thread and we could have a resource for writing book proposals.

[wgjones3]

And another one:

http://freelancewrite.about.com/library/samples/blbkpropix.htm

And another:

http://freelancewrite.about.com/cs/howto/ht/htprepbkprop.htm

[wgjones3]

And another (with some links at the bottom of the screen):

http://www.humorwriters.org/BookProposal.html

[wgjones3]

Last one. This is for fiction:

http://www.customline.com/wordware/bringing.proposalsF.tmpl

[waterfallbooks]

Here's one that the authors sold to Bethany House in seven weeks:

http://www.rsingermanson.com/assets/pdf/O2Proposal.pdf

I haven't read the book yet (as I've 16 reviews to write this month - AAAHHHH!), but I did find an autographed copy at the half-priced bookstore - is that a deal or what?

[wgjones3]

That's great. I've been looking all over for a fiction proposal like that. I was beginning to think you couldn't find one on the net without paying for it. :D

[Mr. Otis]

That's great stuff. Thanks for starting the thread, WG!

[wgjones3]

You're welcome. So far, I'm finding that writing an intellegent novel proposal is almost harder than writing the novel itself. :eek:

[Merry]

Yes, excellent information on here, William, thank you very much. Hope the book proposal is going well!

Merry

[venavino]

Wow! Thanks for this info-- this totally answers a question that I have been struggling to answer all afternoon. I should have checked here first :) There's a lot of info out there on nonfiction book proposals, but I'm happy to see these ideas for fiction.

[paulchernoch]

I have been reading up on the topic of writing book proposals. For fiction, that generally means a query letter, a synopsis and sometimes sample chapters. For non-fiction it means a query letter and chapter summary (in place of the shorter synopsis). Here are some of the articles I have read:

Query letter

http://www.agentquery.com/writer_hq.aspx
http://www.jennybent.com/letter/
http://www.stevelaube.com/guidelines.htm
http://www.simegen.com/romance/query.html

Synopsis

http://www.absolutewrite.com/novels/dreaded_synopsis.htm
http://www.writing-world.com/publish/synopsis.shtml
http://www.simegen.com/romance/query.html
http://www.fictionwriters.com/tips-synopsis.html
http://www.writing-world.com/publish/leblanc.shtml

Whole books have been written on the subject of writing book proposals, but I have not yet read any of them. Has anyone any recommendations?

- Paul