I am writing my proposal for my book I have recently written. As part of the proposal you suggest to include “competing titles/market analysis” I have found some books I could compare to mine, however, I cannot find out about their success, other then they are top in sales at Amazon in the category of personality. Is there a place where I can find out how successful they are such as sales, copies sold, etc?
My book is a self-help relationship book. Do you have an example of what this section of the proposal should look like?
Competing Titles/Market analysis for proposal
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Re: Competing Titles/Market analysis for proposal
Exact sales info isn't usually necessary, and publishers will have that information because they usually have access to Bookscan. It's more important to just mention some of the more well-known titles in your arena and how yours is similar/different.
Re: Competing Titles/Market analysis for proposal
Thank you Nathan! and I am new to your site and love the blogs and info.
In the blog about "formatting your manuscript" you mentioned a few things I didn't understand. (I posted there but not sure if you respond to old blogs)
My question is regarding the word "manuscript." Does that mean just fiction or is a self-help book called a manuscript as well?
More importantly, regarding spacing of the manuscript, does the double-space rule on format and submitting to agents go for self-help (non-fiction) books as well? (that would change my book from 180 pages to 360)
Also I have heard that in a non-fiction book proposal that the overview should be in single space but the rest in double-space. Do you know of any rule for this?
Thank you! Billy
In the blog about "formatting your manuscript" you mentioned a few things I didn't understand. (I posted there but not sure if you respond to old blogs)
My question is regarding the word "manuscript." Does that mean just fiction or is a self-help book called a manuscript as well?
More importantly, regarding spacing of the manuscript, does the double-space rule on format and submitting to agents go for self-help (non-fiction) books as well? (that would change my book from 180 pages to 360)
Also I have heard that in a non-fiction book proposal that the overview should be in single space but the rest in double-space. Do you know of any rule for this?
Thank you! Billy
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