Five Ways to Become a Dream Author
Interpersonal relationships are at the heart of how authors work with book editors and literary agents. Every communication builds…
March 26, 2022Interpersonal relationships are at the heart of how authors work with book editors and literary agents. Every communication builds…
March 26, 2022It’s easy to feel overwhelmed when you consider over 4,500 new books are published every day (including the…
February 25, 2022“The publisher will never use my title.” Or “It doesn’t matter what I call my book because the publisher…
January 25, 2022The world of publishing is always changing. Editors change houses. Publishers change what they publish and much more. These…
December 26, 2021For over nine years, I’ve been an acquisitions editor at Morgan James Publishing, a New York publisher. The two…
November 25, 2021Many writers overlook a critical section in their book proposals: the competition section. After reading thousands of book proposals…
October 25, 2021For decades, I’ve been an editor meeting with authors and reading their book submissions. Many of these submissions are…
September 25, 2021When writers take personality tests, the majority are introverts. They prefer to write more articles or books instead of…
August 25, 2021“Don’t Bury the Lead” is a common instruction to new writers. Literary agents and editors receive high volumes of…
July 25, 2021What is it and why should we write this way? One of the trends in writing today is the…
June 25, 2021So, it’s Christmas and we’re all still dealing with Covid. Who would have imagined a year ago when we…
December 22, 2020We live in a “hurry up” culture. If someone doesn’t answer their email or text you back right away,…
November 25, 2020Writing is a solitary profession and the majority of writers are introverts. Book proposals are a powerful business tool…
September 25, 2020We’re all struggling in this craziness, but one thing is sure, we are writers! We push on and don’t…
August 25, 2020Recently I met one of my long-term friends, a publisher of a well-known book company. Speaking about how I…
July 25, 2020Do you procrastinate when it comes to creating a book proposal? You aren’t alone and it is common among…
May 25, 2020Well, here we are. Or … here I am, and there you are. We’re social distancing. This is new…
April 25, 2020From reading many submissions, I’ve seen numerous misspellings of my first and last name. This small but significant mistake…
March 25, 2020I remember those days of whining to myself. “But it’s good. Everybody says so, especially all my friends and…
February 25, 2020A New Year always brings a chance to start over and begin in a new direction. This year (2020)…
January 25, 2020We’ve written the book, isn’t that enough? Now they want us to write a query, a pitch, a proposal,…
December 25, 2019From my experience in publishing, editors and agents are often slow to respond to submissions. This time lag…
November 25, 2019I wrote about fifty books with traditional publishers, including two proposals that got six figure advances—before I began working…
July 25, 2019The tension hung in the air so thick it felt like you could cut it with a knife. I…
May 25, 2019Cherrilynn Bisbano is an award-winning writer. She founded The Write Proposal after reading hundreds of book proposals with avoidable…
April 25, 2019