How to Choose a Uranium Stock
Now that the uranium bull market has gone to a new level, a number of exploration stocks made spectacular percentage gains after the International Investment Conference held in San Francisco in late November 2005. We turned to Kevin Bambrough, Market Strategist, and Jean-Francoise Tardif, Portfolio Manager, at Sprott Asset Management for their advice on how to navigate through the more than 250 uranium exploration, development and producing companies available across the global investment landscape. Who better to ask than a fund that has invested aro

Saving with the Lump Sum Method
There are so many things that we need to be saving for. You need to have an emergency savings, special goals saving, long term saving and all the other savings accounts for your future. These savings can result in a lot of different accounts. Besides, most people find that they have a hard time getting to where they need to be with just one savings, not five.Most advisors will tell you to spread your savings out among all of your different needs. This can result in a lot of savings accounts. And yet, you still have the same amount of money.You’ll find lots of books on the bookstore shelf about how to write book proposals for traditional publishers. They’re often written by agents who sell to acquisition editors. But what advice would those editors give about writing a winning book proposal?

Says Matt Holt, Executive Editor at John Wiley & Sons, “Remember, the decision to publish a book isn’t often made by an acquisition editor alone; it’s made by a committee of people who represent marketing, publicity, and sales. Knowing this alone should give you insight into crafting a proposal that is compelling to these different parties.

“Publishing is a business. As such, your project ultimately has to make sound financial sense. Editors can like you personally, but if they can’t make the business case for publishing your book, in all likelihood a major house won’t publish it.”

What Goes Into a Proposal?
Below are the standard sections of a proposal as Holt suggests them (although the order frequently varies). Keep the publisher’s business purpose in mind as you write each one of them:
Author’s Biography or About the Author
Book Description or Overview
Sales “Handle”
Competitive Books
Marketing and Promotion
Table of Contents and Sample Chapter
Author’s Biography or About the Author

This section explains why you, the author, are qualified to write this particular book. You want to include the background, accomplishments, and education that are relevant to

ohn Wiley & Sons, “Remember, the decision to publish a book isn’t often made by an acquisition editor alone; it’s made by a committee of people who represent marketing, publicity, and sales. Knowing this alone should give you insight into crafting a proposal that is compelling to these different parties.

“Publishing is a business. As such, your project ultimately has to make sound financial sense. Editors can like you personally, but if they can’t make the business case for publishing your book, in all likelihood a major house won’t publish it.”

What Goes Into a Proposal?
Below are the standard sections of a proposal as Holt suggests them (although the order frequently varies). Keep the publisher’s business purpose in mind as you write each one of them:
Author’s Biography or About the Author
Book Description or Overview
Sales “Handle”
Competitive Books
Marketing and Promotion
Table of Contents and Sample Chapter
Author’s Biography or About the Author

This section explains why you, the author, are qualified to write this particular book. You want to include the background, accomplishments, and education that are relevant t

ties.

“Publishing is a business. As such, your project ultimately has to make sound financial sense. Editors can like you personally, but if they can’t make the business case for publishing your book, in all likelihood a major house won’t publish it.”

What Goes Into a Proposal?
Below are the standard sections of a proposal as Holt suggests them (although the order frequently varies). Keep the publisher’s business purpose in mind as you write each one of them:
Author’s Biography or About the Author
Book Description or Overview
Sales “Handle”
Competitive Books
Marketing and Promotion
Table of Contents and Sample Chapter
Author’s Biography or About the Author

This section explains why you, the author, are qualified to write this particular book. You want to include the background, accomplishments, and education that are relevant t

ow are the standard sections of a proposal as Holt suggests them (although the order frequently varies). Keep the publisher’s business purpose in mind as you write each one of them:
Author’s Biography or About the Author
Book Description or Overview
Sales “Handle”
Competitive Books
Marketing and Promotion
Table of Contents and Sample Chapter
Author’s Biography or About the Author

This section explains why you, the author, are qualified to write this particular book. You want to include the background, accomplishments, and education that are relevant t

ks
Marketing and Promotion
Table of Contents and Sample Chapter
Author’s Biography or About the Author

This section explains why you, the author, are qualified to write this particular book. You want to include the background, accomplishments, and education that are relevant to the subject of the book, and leave out details that aren’t. In this section, you answer this question: Why are you the one qualified to write this book?

Book Description or Overview
In the Overview section, focus on what’s remarkable about your topic and define why people would want to know more. It answers the question: What is your book about? It also grabs the editors’ attention and answers a second question: Why should readers care about that?

Sales “Handle”
Also called an “elevator speech,” this pithy sales synopsis elicits interest in the short time span of an elevator ride. Ideally, it puts strong, short statements into the mouths of the publisher’s sales reps who only have 10 to 30 seconds to interest their buyers in your book. The book’s sales handle answers the question: Why would this book sell and who would buy it?

Competitive Books
This section shows that you’ve done enough research to say, “Similar books on this topic have value, but mine provides ____ (more, better, different, new). Summarizing three to five similar books gives decision-makers something to compare your book against while explaining its uniqueness and reinforcing yo