Book Proposal Review

The book proposal review is for aspiring authors who have already written part or all of their book proposal and need a temperature-check before sending it out to agents and publishers.

I will read your proposal and provide my comments in a video. You’ll get my thoughts and questions in response to your proposal but no written comments and no editorial work.

Description: A practical video-based response to your draft book proposal that identifies potential red flags and other issues that might limit literary agents and/or book publishers’ interest in your book project.

Who is this for: Aspiring nonfiction authors who want to make sure that their book proposal meets publishing industry expectations and practice, before submitting it to literary agents and book publishers.

How it works:

1. Following purchase, please send your draft book proposal to hello at lloydliterary.com. (Maximum of 30 double-spaced pages.)
2. I read your proposal and respond to it using a confidential video, providing you with my sense of its strengths as well as suggestions for its further development, and identifying anything that appears to be missing from the proposal.
3. I send you the link to the video.

Outcomes:

• a clear sense of what else needs doing to strengthen your proposal prior to agent or publisher submissions
• specific and constructive suggestions to help you maximize the potential of your book idea
• an understanding of the commercial considerations that go into assessing book projects, to help refine your project
• a direct connection with a publishing professional with a strong track record of client results who can answer most of your publishing-related questions