Pitching to book publishers
Pitching to book publishers
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- bigtrick0
martin -- when pitching a luxury cocktail book to publishers last year, we ended up printing a small set of promotional 'teaser' books through blurb that we sent out to publishers, which contained our proposal package as well as some sample content. we had our agents tell the publishers to expect to receive it. we used the same set of a dozen or so books for several dozen publishers - if a publisher rejected the proposal and sent back the book, we'd have it sent on to the next publisher on the list.
it definitely worked as far as getting their attention - every single publisher paid us notice. as for interesting them enough to give us a go... that was not so effective (: so your mileage with this approach may vary.