I'm grateful for the book proposal advice as I am working on two right now--one for fiction and one for nonfiction.
Knowing some of your work and having read many of your Substack newsletters, I think your overview capture your intent. It certainly sells me. The only thing I might suggest is to occasionally vary your sentence length; yours are deep with eloquent and clearly expressed thoughts, but a short, punchy, well-placed one could do wonders. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to the TOC.
I appreciate the feedback, Melanie. In the book itself, which is about 95 percent finished at this point, I have already been doing that: going back through and, in some places, dividing/revising long, winding sentences into shorter ones to vary the effect. I'm sure you're right that the same attention to the proposal will improve it on the way to the final version.
Best of luck on the two you're presently creating!
Strong like! Looking forward to hearing more on how you’re gonna approach this
Thank you, Dan! I'm glad the description appeals. More updates, and also excerpts, are imminently forthcoming.
I'm grateful for the book proposal advice as I am working on two right now--one for fiction and one for nonfiction.
Knowing some of your work and having read many of your Substack newsletters, I think your overview capture your intent. It certainly sells me. The only thing I might suggest is to occasionally vary your sentence length; yours are deep with eloquent and clearly expressed thoughts, but a short, punchy, well-placed one could do wonders. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to the TOC.
I appreciate the feedback, Melanie. In the book itself, which is about 95 percent finished at this point, I have already been doing that: going back through and, in some places, dividing/revising long, winding sentences into shorter ones to vary the effect. I'm sure you're right that the same attention to the proposal will improve it on the way to the final version.
Best of luck on the two you're presently creating!