Your Novel Proposal from Creation to Contract

by Blythe Camenson (Author), Marshall Cook (Author), Marshall Cook (Author), Blythe Camenson (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $15.41

  The only guide of its kind created just for fiction writers. Drawing upon the insights of experienced authors, editors and agents, it provides writers with the crucial information needed to get published in today's rapidly-changing fiction industry. Using examples from real novel proposals, this guide illustrates all the do's and don'ts of pitching a manuscript, including how to:
  target the right publishers
  find a great agent
  network and make important industry contacts
  send a query letter that gets attention
  avoid editors' and agents' 'Top 10 submission pet peeves'
  master the elements of a strong synopsis and killer cover letter