If you have received communication from us requesting a formal proposal, the following suggestions will help us to properly consider your proposal. It is recommended that your proposal contain:

1. The most exciting or important feature of your book.
2. Basic book information: author(s), editor(s), artist(s), length, proposed schedule, illustrations.
3. Detailed market information describing the profile of the book's buyers.
4. Front and Back Matter: list of figures, foreword by a well-known person,  appendices, glossary, bibliography, index.
5. Biographical information relevant to the book and marketing, writing credits
6. Interviews, experts, and others who are willing resources for the author.
7. Competing books and media and how the book will be different or better.
8. The Table of Contents
9. Detailed outline of each chapter
10. A handful of sample chapters, taken from different parts of the book.
11. Your promotional ideas, availability, and prior experience with promotion, including media experience.