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Label: Amazon Manufacturer: Amazon Number Of Pages: 18 Publication Date: October 19, 2007 Publisher: Amazon Release Date: October 19, 2007 Studio: Amazon Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: As time goes on, learning to write a proposal is becoming more important for more kinds of writing. In today's rushed world, no one wants to spend lots of time learning to write a proposal. Learning to write a proposal that works is essential. “The Great First Impression Proposal” tells writer everything they need to know about selling a book or article idea in one, quick Amazon Short. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The Great First Impression Skepticism...Must admit that I was a bit skeptical when I read the title The Great First Impression Book Proposal: Everything You Need to Know About Selling Your Book in Twenty Minutes or Less. When one sees such a title, offering the reader the suggestion that one might find all they need to know about anything, can contribute to the raising of an initially dubious eyebrow. The imagination can shift to the early morning infomercials that one finds on television during a night when sleep is elusive. Read More Rating:  - Extremely DisappointingI'm VERY surprised that there were 12 reviews raving about this text. I find it hard to believe that they were all objective reviews by people unknown to the author (although I recognize that's certainly possible). I normally would not even take the time to write a review if I did not think that, in this case, it's warranted. First of all, the supplementary pages should not have been counted in giving the text length. I thought I was getting 18 pages on how to write a book proposal, so ... Read More Rating: - The Great First Impression Book Proposal: Everything You Need to Know About Selling Your Book in Twenty Minutes or LessI've always thought that fiction writers don't need to write book proposals, but according to Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of The Frugal Book Promoter and The Frugal Editor - some publishers now ask their novelists to write them especially if they're under contract for more than one novel, genre novels and novels that are part of a series. Remind me not to write a sequel then, for the prospect of writing a book proposal fills me with dread. But, Carolyn has just written her very helpful first Amazon ... Read More Rating: - The Queen of Tips Turns to Book ProposalsCarolyn Howard-Johnson has made a career of taking complex topics, boiling them down to their essence,and providing the core information to recalcitrant writers like me. In this short, she tackles the topic of book proposals. Yawn! Book proposals? Okay. Carolyn's smart. Carolyn's experienced. Carolyn's well-known in the industry. Carolyn knows stuff. Like a teenaged boy charged with carrying out the garbage, I read Carolyn's short because I knew ... Read More Rating: - The Great First Impression Book ProposalWriting a good book proposal is crucial. You can sit down and write the most well written, thought provoking book ever conceived. Your novel might be so noteworthy that it is going to eliminate global warming, bring universal peace, and heal the ozone layer all in one fell swoop. But, unfortunately, if your proposal isn't up to standard, your work will remain forever unpublished. The Great First Impression Book Proposal is a short article that provides some guidance on writing book proposals. ... Read More 
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