Book Proposals

What Materials are Submitted to an Agent? - article

Once you have written a book and you have made it as strong as you can, you are ready to submit the manuscript to agents. You may know you book is fabulous. Every agent...
- Molly Blaisdell
The 10 Most Common Reasons Book Proposals are Rejected - article

Hearing a “no” from a literary agent or editor for a publishing house is never easy. Very often, however, hopeful authors misinterpret brief personal notes added to...
- Marcia Yudkin
Tips for a New Author Approaching a Publisher for the First Time - video

Are you looking to get published for the first time? Lee Klancher, publisher at Octane Press, provides publishing tips for new authors. Key to get in the door is a...
- Lee Klancher
Tips for a New Author Approaching a Publisher for the First Time - podcast

Are you looking to get published for the first time? Lee Klancher, publisher at Octane Press, provides publishing tips for new authors. Key to get in the door is a...
- Lee Klancher
Nailing Your Booktalk - video

Ironically, authors aren't the best people to define the hook in their book--they are too close to the characters and story, that's why Ingrid Emerick, CFO and CEO...
- Ingrid Emerick