I have a friend who's shopping a YA novel around to literary agents, and yesterday he got a request for a "proposal." He'd already sent this agency a query with a very short synopsis, and he's thrown off by this new request.
Has anyone ever heard the term "proposal" applied to a YA novel? I've heard of that in non-fiction, but never in novels.
If you have heard that, do you know what the said proposal would contain? I told him I assumed it would be the writer's platform, a short synospis, and perhaps a market analysis. He told me, however, that the original query had a short synopsis, so it would seem redundant to put another one in this proposal.
He's already asked for clarification once and the agent used the word again: "Just send a proposal," she said. So he doesn't want to be a nuisance. Any help you can give, then, would be greatly appreciated.
Has anyone ever heard the term "proposal" applied to a YA novel? I've heard of that in non-fiction, but never in novels.
If you have heard that, do you know what the said proposal would contain? I told him I assumed it would be the writer's platform, a short synospis, and perhaps a market analysis. He told me, however, that the original query had a short synopsis, so it would seem redundant to put another one in this proposal.
He's already asked for clarification once and the agent used the word again: "Just send a proposal," she said. So he doesn't want to be a nuisance. Any help you can give, then, would be greatly appreciated.