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Thanks for a helpful post and sriees on finding a nonfiction publisher. Your style is careful, but speaks to peers. You evoke trust. If you will permit a quibble, then I would fold a clear and compelling title into the second item (a concept that fits the publisher's market). I find too many authors get locked into their title and balk later in the agreement-signing process. More than a few publishers with whom I have worked ask the author for five or six different title-subtitle combinations.Near the bottom of your list (perhaps after a proposal that follows the publisher's guidelines), I would insert: Include at least three like-type books that are subject peers with your book. Too many authors claim that there is no book like theirs probably thinking that this will make their proposal more attractive. In my experience, publishers react in just the opposite way. If no one has ever published in this subject, then there is probably no market for it.Use your one sentence summery of each peer and your second sentence contrast how your book differs as a way to position your book among other, similar-seeming titles. And it really helps if some of those peer titles sold lots of units as captured on Nielsen Bookscan.
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Sarah
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