A Point of View...about book proposals

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Within the last 24 hours I've been talking about book proposals with different people and also came across an article about proposals from book publisher, Fine Print Lit (FPL). You can  read the article sometime when you start to refresh a proposal and want to compare yours with other ideas.  

Beyond content of the Fine Print Lit article, however, I have some thoughts about it and recommend that your proposal avoids the following attributes:

•  Very long

• Not formatted for fast reading
• No sharing options (Twitter, Facebook, other)

  Now, tips about article presentation, which would be more appealing if it included:

1. bullet points
2. bold fonts
3. indents or double-line spacing other than for paragraphs
4. links. 

Nevertheless, the content is worth taking a look.
Let me know what you think about it?

Jean Purcell
info@opinebooks.com
Now Open-Opine eStore and Book Cafe blog

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