Sample Cover Letter for Book Proposal

According to Fry, you can borrow sections of your query letter for your book proposal's cover letter, which I have done below. In addition, the cover letter is accompanied by the actual book proposal and should only be sent at the request of the publisher/agent.

In other words, don't volunteer it if they didn't ask for it! By not doing so, it will save you time, money and other resources for the right publisher or agent that acutally does want it.

So, here's my sample cover letter:

Per your request, I've enclosed my book proposal for "Overcoming the House of Jezebel: How to Do It Right When You Learned It Wrong".

As you may recall, this is an inspirational, self-help book outlining real-life experiences of being raised in a single parent household where my maternal grandmother was my “parent”. Unfortunately for me, she embodied a personality that paralleled that of the biblical account of Queen Jezebel.

Starting with my present life and tracing back, I’ll share the story of key family members and how the house of Jezebel impacted their lives while also exposing negative family behaviors that would cause even “Leave it to Beaver” to be totally unprepared for adulthood.

Throughout the book, I will share negative family values associated with the house of Jezebel, how these “values” impacted me as adult-child survivor, followed by strategies and sound advice for replacing “Jezebellian values” for “faith-based values”. I also devoted an entire chapter to how these wrong values can “rack havoc” on one’s current family and future generations if left unresolved.

Let me know if you would like to see the entire book. I can conceivably deliver the completed manuscript to you by __________.

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