ANSWERS from a best selling author.

[GordonJ]

Originally Posted by Bozo

I bought the book with the proposal guidelines, and I have a few questions about it.

1. Nothing was mentioned about what's in it for me. Like % of royalty, or outright payment for a book. Maybe it's negotiated on a per book/author basis?

2. Must the book be completed before submitting the proposal, or can we make a proposal and then write the book only if GTP is interested in it?

3. "Dollars In Your Mailbox" outlines how to publish on your own, so my question is again must the proposals be for an existing and already sold book?

4. Is there a minimum or maximum length, either word count or pages, or is the book judged solely by the value of the information therein?

Thanks,
Bud Riggs

Bud,

These are excellent questions.

1) It varies and depends. GTP has some "professional" types, MD.s and Ph.D.s and they negotiate their agreements. If it is a book to be tested on spec, in other words, the book can be printed on demand to fulfill, without having to have a large amount run...then it could be on a royalty...and Bud, there is no standard, but I think everyone could be safe if they figured at 5% on the retail price of the book, they'd be safe. So for a 24.95 book, that would be 1.25 on each one sold. But, again, you'd have to reach your agreement with GTP and each one is different.

It is not uncommon for even the smallest of books to sell into the tens of thousands of copies.

2) You can do both. Dien's book is 95% written because he has been publishing the Hidden Biz Ideas for a couple of years, he just has to double check links etc. We've already rec'd proposals for books to be written. In this case, I'll do a market research on the subject. There have been times when an advance is offered, but, I'm going to suggest GTP not do this unless necessary...for some, it will be...but for most, it will be a basic commission only arrangement.

By all means submit IDEAS for books, and we'll help you flesh out the market and see what GTP "team" thinks of the market.

3) They can be for existing work, or for something totally new. IF you have been selling a book, perhaps a digital download, and it has mass market appeal, we'd consider it and weigh things out, on the benefits of having a real book. OR it may fit into the digital books that GTP will publish.

So either new or already written books will be considered.

4) Right on. Solely on content. They have published some very short books, shorter than most of the reports I've written, some only 30-50 pages. Most of their books are under 100 pages, and I don't know about word count, I don't think it matters, unless it gets too long, then we have editors for that. So, short and sweet or a couple hundred pages, all are welcome.

Thanks Bud for those questions.

Gordon Jay Alexander