Comments on: Writing a Killer Book Proposal http://rockyourwritingcareer.com/writing-a-killer-book-proposal Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:15:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: RockYourWritingCareer.com – A New Resource for Novelists | GENREALITY http://rockyourwritingcareer.com/writing-a-killer-book-proposal/comment-page-1#comment-93 RockYourWritingCareer.com – A New Resource for Novelists | GENREALITY Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:31:17 +0000 http://rockyourwritingcareer.com/?p=737#comment-93 [...] four part Writing a Killer Book Proposal [...] [...] four part Writing a Killer Book Proposal [...]

]]> By: Laura Resnick http://rockyourwritingcareer.com/writing-a-killer-book-proposal/comment-page-1#comment-89 Laura Resnick Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:44:24 +0000 http://rockyourwritingcareer.com/?p=737#comment-89 Joe wrote: "No previous sales history from any other publisher meant they had to take a chance and none of them wanted to commit to doing so. " Yep. A friend of mine always says: Every publisher wants to be the SECOND house to publish The Hot New Thing. None of them want to be the FIRST one to publish it, because being first implies risk, and publishers are risk averse. Every publisher sees the ideal position as being the first house on the bandwagon after another house has been the first to -discover- the Next Big Thing. Joe wrote: “No previous sales history from any other publisher meant they had to take a chance and none of them wanted to commit to doing so. ”

Yep. A friend of mine always says: Every publisher wants to be the SECOND house to publish The Hot New Thing. None of them want to be the FIRST one to publish it, because being first implies risk, and publishers are risk averse. Every publisher sees the ideal position as being the first house on the bandwagon after another house has been the first to -discover- the Next Big Thing.

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