Here's the proposal I wrote for this book:
...but don't take it as an automatic model. After a very happy ten-year relationship with Self-Counsel Press, I don't have to spell out everything when I pitch a book idea. In fact, I plan to expand on this proposal in the next few days so I'll have a better outline for the book.
If you're thinking about interesting a publisher before you start writing, or when you're in the early stages of the book, visit the Authors' Page for Pearson Education. Even if you're not planning a textbook, it will give you a range of guidelines for different publishers. Before you send a proposal to the two or three most likely publishers of your book, organizing it along the lines of a Pearson pitch will help you understand your own project in more detail. You'll understand what publishers are looking for, and you'll be able to adapt your concept to their needs...making your book more likely to be published.
So a book proposal really has two readers: the publisher, and the author.
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