Stephen Blake Mettee is the editor of ""The American Directory of Writer's Guidelines"" and ""The Portable Writers' Conference: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Published."" He is the founder of Quill Driver Books and theWriteThought.com. He lives in Sanger, California.

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"An insider's perspective on the nonfiction book proposal. Brief and accessible . . . the different parts of the query letter and the proposal are outlined. . . . [This book] provides a sample query letter, proposal, agency contract, and book contract." -- Reference & Research Book News (June 2012)

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"First-rate. . . . Mettee's knowledge and expertise is visible in every page. If you'd like to try writing a book but don't know how to start the process, you will need no other book than this." -- Technical Communication magazine (March 2013)