Book Proposal Depot

Your stop for book proposal, manuscript, and publishing success.

About Lori Lisi

Lori was born in Fort Worth, Texas and has never even seen a turnip truck, much less fallen off of one. She attended the University of Texas of Arlington for much of the 90s and signed up for a bachelor's degree plan in Public Relations sometime early in that decade. Even with the realization that the Public Relations degree plan was under the jurisdiction of the Journalism sector of the Communications Department, she still doesn't understand why the institution wouldn't actually print the words, "Public Relations," on her diploma instead of awarding her with a piece of paper that said, "Journalism."

After that much money, you'd think you could have whatever you wanted printed on pretty much anything, much less have it match your actual degree plan.

Nonetheless, it didn't seem to matter. After performing the function of public relations (and a few other roles) in several industries, such as biotech, film, and advertising and public relations agencies, she lucked upon serving an internship as a public relations assistant for a company that focused on promoting authors. Coupled with a few writing assignments here and there, such as broadcast writing, desktop publishing, and magazine articles, it all seemed to naturally roll over to the arena of book publishing—her original love anyway.

So, after joining the Editorial Freelancers Association, the National Writers Union, the Public Relations Society of America, the International Webmasters Association, and the Freelancers Association for Recovering Tester Association Addictions (FARTAA), she set to work at helping authors get published—from book editing to query letters, synopses, book proposals, and promotion plans to even screening bogus agents from real, live, bona fide, strictly commission-working representatives of authors' interests.

She's been a professional writer/editor/publicist for over ten years, with over 60 manuscript projects to her credit. Among those, nearly 30 have become published authors. Her work on those projects may have included book editing, writing submission materials, researching agents, or providing promotional guidance or publishing advice. Her goal, since she entered this industry in 1995, was to help authors all along the way of getting published.

As for her own muse, she wrote her first short story at twelve and has been a writer and bibliophile all her life. She may otherwise be found having a life with her husband and daughter in Fort Worth, Texas—where there are no turnip trucks.

For more information about about Lori Lisi, please feel free to download her CV. (Current through 2006.)

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Free Proposal Consultation or Sample Edit

After reading the articles (or even before, if you'd like), I'd be happy to provide you with a free initial consultation or provide a sample edit for a manuscript. To set up either, simply:

1. Fill out the Contact Form to request a phone appointment (from Lori Lisi).
    
2. Include the status of your manuscript and any submission materials.
    
3. Include several possible time frames to set up a phone appointment.
    
4. If you have a draft of your proposal and/or the first two chapters of your manuscript, please upload that into the form as well.
    

You will be contacted within 24 to 72 hours. This will allow me the time to review the materials and information you might send before we set up the phone appointment. Please be sure to include times you might be available to set up the appointment.

I'll look forward to speaking with you!

Book Proposal Services

If you prefer that I write the book proposal for you, please review the Writing service.

If you would like to write the book proposal yourself and primarily want guidance for doing so, please review the Coaching service.

If you already have a book proposal and would like a critique of it, please review the Critiquing service.

Manuscript Services

If you would like general feedback regarding your manuscript, please check out the Book Critique service.

If your manuscript would be better served by an edit, check out the Book Editing service.

If you are uncertain, simply request a Free Sample Edit for an initial assessment of the editing level that might be needed.

Literary Agents and Query Letters Services

Do you have your manuscript and/or book proposal ready and need to know what to do next? We research literary agents and write query letters specific to your project. See our Literary Agents Research and Query Letters services.

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