How to Write an Email Well Enough to Land a Book Deal | Literary Hub

Many nonwriters who are sure they have a great book idea-but (sorry to say) do not-are not thinking about their idea as one within a marketplace of other ideas. They are-and I do not mean this in a nasty way, but a technical one-thinking selfishly. They are thinking about how fascinating their grandfather who fought in World War II is, or how interesting their own divorce has been. And that's fine! It may be there is a fascinating history or memoir there. But if you have an idea for a book, the key question is not about whether a topic is interesting to you, but whether or not someone might want to spend thousands of dollars on this idea to make it into a physical object for readers. And the answer to that question lies in whether or not others might want to spend money to read it.