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Laura Portwood-Stacer, "The Book Proposal Book: A Guide for Scholarly Authors" (Princeton UP, 2021)

The Academic Life

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The One Liner for the Book Proposal

The one liner is what i call the elevator pitch when i talk to many of the authors that i interview. So mine is a step by step guide to crafting a compelling, scholarly book proposal and seeing your book through to successful publication. It tells you what's going to be in the book, how the information is presented. And thenyou know, it interpolates a certain kind of reader who can now see, well, yes, i need to know how to do that. so i want to get this book. That is a brilliant summary of exactly what the book does. I'm working with some scholars right now in my book proposal accelerator, and there, you know, working on their

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