#5 - Submit your book: Writing a proposal that $ells

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Welcome to Course #5 - Creating a powerful proposal that $ells
- Welcome to Writing with Suzie
- Your last building block -- your proposal!
- Objectives for Course #5: Creating a powerful proposal that $ells
- A few instructions before you begin
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Downloadable Documents for Course 5
- Instructions: Downloadable Documents
- Proposal Formatting Guidelines
- Blank Proposal #1
- Sample Proposal #2: Proposal that netted a contract - JoyKeeper
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Part 1: Who, what, and why
- What is a proposal?
- Summary: What is a proposal?
- Who should write a proposal?
- Summary: Who should write a proposal?
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Part 2 (a): Building your proposal
- Instructions: Parts of a Proposal
- Parts of a Proposal: Synopsis
- Parts of a Proposal: Overview
- Parts of a Proposal: Benefits and Promise Statements
- Parts of a proposal: Audience
- Parts of a proposal: Format, genre, and extras
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Pause: Realign with your reader
- Assignment: Realigning with your reader
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Part 2 (b): Let’s continue to build your proposal
- Parts of a proposal: Bio
- Parts of a proposal: Comparative Analysis
- Parts of a Proposal: Marketing #1 (a pep talk)
- Parts of a Proposal: 7 potential marketing points
- Parts of a proposal: Marketing - Endorsements
- Potential endorsements: Marketing - Endorsements What not to do
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Part 2 (c): Outline and chapter synopses
- Parts of a proposal: Your chapter-by-chapter outline
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Part 3: Checklist
- Checklist
- A word from Suzie
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Part 4: It’s time to create your sample chapters
- Proposal: Sample Chapters
- Formatting your chapters
- Example: Sample Chapters - Come With Me
- Checklist: Sample Chapters
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Part 5: Submitting your proposal
- Submitting Your Proposal: 3 Things You Need to Do
- Summary: 3 things you need to do
- Example: Online form from a publishing house (as referenced in 3 things you need to do)
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Part 6: Bonus Material
- Interview with Kim Bangs, Acquisitions Editor - Baker Books (Chosen)
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Do you need a one-to-one coach?
- Do you need a one-to-one coach?