One of my favorite chapters in Writer Mama, How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids, is the last chapter. Because this is the chapter I would have wished to read before I attended my first writer’s conference. It’s called, “Pitch a Nonfiction Book Concept” and it’s unique because most conference pitching prep focuses on writing a book proposal (usually 30-50 pages and a lot of work!). In Writer Mama, I tell you how to pitch a “book concept” instead of a proposal, thereby helping you save your time and energy for other important stuff—like socializing and network with other writers!
And if you get a bite on your concept at a conference, you can always work on the proposal afterwards, from a more informed perspective. If you’d like to learn more about pitching a book concept, everything you need to know is in chapter 23 of Writer Mama (but you might want to read the first 22 chapters first, more about those later).
What a huge, time-saving, energy-saving gift! What I love about your classes — and I know I’ll love about your book — is how you take concepts like “proposal” off of their pedestal and make the whole publishing trajectory seem so POSSIBLE.