Giggle of the Day: world’s worst book proposals

When you’re selling a nonfiction book on proposal the proposal needs to make sense.

The letters in More World’s Worst Book Proposals By Angela Hoy just don’t make sense:

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p>Is there a way to supplement the submission process that might allow me to send in a representative sample chapter instead? I am confident you will be able to judge the quality of my work from such. In addition to submitting a representative sample, I could provide a letter from my lawyer supporting the quality of my writing…”

Read the entire article. Great stuff.

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