One of the most common questions I get is, “How can I get a publisher to publish my book?”

Answer: “You have to write a book proposal an editor will read and say yes to.”

How do you do that?

You get “inside information” from someone who knows the publishing business.

My friend, Terry Whalin, has been in the publishing business for over 25 years. One of the keys (which no one controls) is making the right connection with the right person at the right time and the right place.

While you can’t control that element, you CAN be actively working to learn all that you can about how to make the best possible pitch.

Within the publishing community, the devil is in the details. For example, several years ago when he was a fiction acquisitions editor, he could only acquire a few novels each year. One of the key rejection tools that Terry used was the word count. If the writer didn’t tell him their word count,  the proposal was rejected. If their word count was outside of the typical range for novels, it was rejected. The writers received a polite “thanks but no thank you” rejection letter and never knew they had missed the mark. It wasn’t Terry’s task to inform them of what was missing.

Terry wants to help deepen your understanding of how editors and agents REALLY make their decisions about your proposals and pitches. Remember editors and agents don’t read manuscripts. They read book proposals.

He has developed a 12-week training course on how to write a book proposal. It is at
http://BookProposalsThatSell.com.

You can get the first lesson and start training today.

On Thursday, February 2nd at 8 p.m. EST or 5 p.m. PST, Terry is going to be answering your questions in a free 70-minute teleseminar. You can sign up and ask him any question about proposal creation and proposal marketing here.

In addition, Terry has created a special free Ebook for everyone who signs up at the teleseminar:  BOOK PROPOSAL BASICS. You can get this  24-page Ebook packed with content when you sign up.

If you can’t make the time of the call, please go ahead and sign up anyway. The entire teleseminar will be recorded and EVERYONE  who signs up will receive an email with the replay link. Also if you sign up, you will be able to download the FREE special report right away. This report is loaded with valuable advice. So sign up and learn from the publishing insider who has rejected–and accepted–hundreds of proposals and knows what sells!