Super-Powered Book Proposals Secret #4: Give the Publisher Room to Negotiate

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This post is part of a series I'm writing on how to super-power
your nonfiction book proposal. For the majority of nonfiction book ideas (except possibly
memoir), you should prepare a book proposal first, rather than write the manuscript. To
find out if you should write a book proposal, click here.








Secret #4: Give the Publisher Room to Negotiate


It used to be very common in a book proposal to give details related to:



the specific length of the book (remember, if you're...