A proposal is a sales document read by a professional who reads forty each week. The proposal needs about a page to provide evidence that the book exists, that there is an audience, and that you are the right person to write it. The rest essentially confirms what was already said.
Everything is scrutinized. Comparative titles are investigated, platform claims are checked against your numbers, and chapter summaries are read to see if you can write. Things are getting checked. Comparative titles get investigated, platform claims get checked against your numbers, and chapter summaries get read to see if you can write.
Readable overviews begin with a clear, concise answer to an editor’s commercial question: who buys this, and why now. We lose the reader instantly when we lead with the author’s journey and proposals. We place the market and the hook first, followed by the author’s credentials and then the evidence, which describes the order in which the reader will engage with the proposal.
Generative AI proposals get found out through comparative titles. Models generate books that seem appropriate, yet do not exist, or that do exist, but are tied to a different publisher and/or year. Agents start by checking the comparative titles because it’s the quickest part of the proposal to verify and a fabricated one ends their review immediately.
We create the market case before the creative case. That means finding comparable titles, reading a good chunk of those titles, and getting the actual numbers for your list size, speaking dates, and following from you (as opposed to taking the more “conservative” estimates). The overview is written last because there has to be something for it to summarize.
It’s easy for the overview to claim it will provide a practical guide, while the chapter summaries describe a memoir. It is also easy for the single sample chapter to feature a voice that the rest of the document does not. This pass aims to describe the same book in the same order of priorities by all three elements: overview, chapter summaries, and sample chapter.
One rate, whatever the format: $10 per 100 words. You are paying for the writer’s time and judgement, so the price scales with the words rather than with a package tier.
| Typical book proposal | Words | Writing | Fee (1%) | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Concise | 1,500 | $150 | $1.50 | $151.50 |
| Standard | 3,500 | $350 | $3.50 | $353.50 |
| Full submission | 7,000 | $700 | $7 | $707 |
The writer receives 100% of the writing price. Our 1% fee is added on top of it, and 0.5% is donated to tree planting. Full pricing breakdown.
A named human writer with a background in this kind of work. No model drafts, outlines, edits or researches any part of it, and nothing is run through an AI humanizer. Every draft is checked against multiple detectors before it reaches you.
A named human writer with a background in this kind of work. No model drafts, outlines, edits or researches any part of it, and nothing is run through an AI humanizer. Every draft is checked against multiple detectors before it reaches you.
No, and be careful with those who take that road. Acquisition is a tricky market, and some people decide to call it a day after platform traction and the tastes of one person align. That’s why we view this as the avoidable reasons for rejection. What we care about is that the document is accurate, well argued, and formatted correctly, which we have control of.
It is priced by the word. Usually around 350 words. With the proposal, you would want to have the pitch in the letter as overseen directly in the overview to avoid having to pitch it again as they read the two separately and compare.
Completely. Copyright transfers to you on delivery, with no attribution requirement and no licence back to us. Nothing written for you is resold, repurposed or republished.
Reviews from completed, paid orders in this category.
I’m glad I to compared books that I thought flattered me. The writer offered three books that match what I wrote and explained the logic an editor would use when reviewing the list. That section alone made the purchase worthwhile. I am happy to say that two agents asked for the full manuscript.
My novel took four years, and the back cover took three sentences and had me stumped for six weeks. The writer must have read the full manuscript (instead of the synopsis) which I know because the copy references a scene from chapter fourteen.
Chapter seven got me stuck for almost a year, and the suggested structure finally helped. Great outline, but the email with it was a two-sentence filler. I had to ask for a paragraph explaining the order of the chapters.
We do not ask you to take the no-AI promise on trust. Each draft is run through these platforms and the reports are attached to your delivery email.
Originality.aiAI detection + plagiarism
GPTZeroAI detection
TurnitinAI detection + similarity
CopyleaksAI detection + plagiarism
Winston AIAI detection
ZeroGPTAI detection
SaplingAI detection
Content at ScaleAI detection
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