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Aha moments in to kill a mockingbird series#

If there seems to be a consensus among the readers, meaning several compare you to the same writer, then you can say in your proposal: “Advance readers have said my writing/story/tone/voice (whatever) reminds them of _.”.This has to come from the readers, not from you.) (But do not give them any possible names of writers. If you enjoy _’s books, you’ll like this book. Or have them fill in the blanks, such as:

But include this as one of your questions:ĭid the writing, the story, or the tone remind you of any of your favorite writers?

When you send the manuscript to these folks, ask them to comment on whatever will help you best, be it pacing, character development, plot, word choice, dialogue…whatever.

Folks who don’t know you personally but who love to read. Instead, find readers through your social media, the local library or schools/universities, writers’ groups.

Put together a group of advance readers who agree to read your manuscript and answer a few questions.

But if you want to compare your work to someone else’s, don’t make that comparison yourself. Writers want to position their writing, genre, style in the agents’ or editors’ minds.

But there really weren’t overtones of EH, nor was there a marriage, nor was the story contained in the sample chapters “just like” a Ted Dekker book. It’s not that the proposals were terrible. Now, all of that is well and good if, indeed, those assertions are true. “My books are just like Ted Dekker’s, so my audience is the same as his.” “This book marries the power of To Kill a Mockingbird with the truth of Corrie Ten Boom.” “My work contains overtones of Ernest Hemingway.” What was that something? In their proposals, more and more writers are comparing their work to icons in publishing.

Aha moments in to kill a mockingbird series#

And I saw that something again just recently as I read over proposals during a series of 15-minute meetings with conferees at a writers’ conference. Awhile ago, I was reviewing a proverbial stack of nonfiction and fiction proposals.