How To Land a Six-Figure Book Deal

And why I believe anyone can do it

The theme of January’s Write With Me Club was ‘beginnings’ and we’re just a couple of days away from me revealing the theme for February – I can’t wait to see White Ink members next Monday for our next online get together. Upgrade here to come along and join us.

But back to beginnings, and the beginning of any book deal is going out on submission with your agent. And the beginning of that is writing a proposal.

The dream, of course, is writing a non-fiction book proposal that will not only get an auction going among editors — this is when many editors want to buy it and so they all bid to win your manuscript – but also that the auction itself results in that much-coveted six-figure book deal. AKA the stuff of dreams.

But how do you land yourself a six-figure book deal?

As someone who has managed to achieve this three times — on both sides of the Atlantic — I am going to share with you below my magic formula for how you can make this happen.

And, I would add, I actually think that anyone can achieve this because any writer is only as good as their last book.

So how did I do it? Let me explain in ten simple points: