So that you wish to publish the following nice e book! To take action you first want a e book proposal.

Again in late 2011, I spent hours placing collectively a e book proposal for my severance negotiation technique e book, How To Engineer Your Layoff.

After engineering my very own layoff three months earlier, I had hoped to get a literary agent, land a e book deal, and spend the following yr writing the e book. Writing a e book was at all times on my bucket listing. And what higher time to take action than after retiring on a seaside in Hawaii?

Alas, destiny had different plans. I submitted my e book proposal to about 15 brokers and did not get a single reply again. Undaunted, and with the assistance of my dad and spouse, I made a decision to self-publish my e book anyway.

I had been writing about retiring early since 2009 when Monetary Samurai started. Throughout this time interval, I handled my struggles of strolling away from a gentle paycheck at a younger age. I additionally met a whole bunch of others on-line who struggled with the identical points.

We talked about overcoming the another yr syndrome to do one thing new. We even mentioned methods on learn how to persuade our spouses to work longer so we might retire earlier! I failed in that division.

Then it hit me. What if extra folks might stroll away from their jobs with a departing monetary reward? A severance bundle would assist ease the transition into early retirement, entrepreneurship, parenthood, training, or perhaps a new profession.

I knew I simply needed to publish the e book.

My Rejected Guide Proposal Turned Out Superb

One of many the explanation why I write from firsthand expertise is as a result of I wish to know what’s significant and what’s not. Negotiating a severance bundle gave me the liquid braveness to stroll away from a six-figure job I disliked at age 34.

A severance bundle modified my life for the higher.

Now not do I endure from power decrease again ache, sciatica, and TMJ because of the stress of working in finance. My hair stopped falling out and greying. My spouse and I have been lastly in a position to have kids after years of making an attempt. And I acquired to pursue my artistic facet whereas being free!

How To Engineer Your Layoff has gone on to generate over $550,000 in earnings since 2012. When the gatekeepers do not provide you with an opportunity, do it anyway! Don’t be deterred by rejection. Embrace it!

In the course of the first couple of years, HTEYL solely generated about $10,000 a yr in revenue. However after constantly increasing and revising the e book, earnings have grown by 5X.

Positive, you are not residing it up on $50,000 a yr earlier than tax. You’ll be able to’t even comfortably deal with a household of 4 with solely $50,000 both. However to me, $50,000 is an glorious supply of passive earnings that was created from nothing.

As well as, if I have been to have gotten a e book deal again in 2012, I most likely would have accepted a e book advance of as little as $25,000. Phew!

New Alternatives Come up If You Stick Issues Out Lengthy Sufficient

Eight years of writing later, on the finish of 2019, I lastly acquired a e book take care of a significant writer: Portfolio Penguin Random Home. I did not go searching for one so no e book proposal was vital. The provide got here to me by means of a chilly e-mail outreach.

As soon as the pandemic started in February 2020, I made a decision to put in writing my subsequent e book, Purchase This Not That,

Wanting again, I recognize all of the rejections I’ve had in my life. The rejections make any success you have got all of the sweeter. Rejections are additionally extremely motivating to show your rejectors unsuitable! I like them.

If you wish to grow to be a printed creator, beneath is my rejected e book proposal that ought to have been accepted. I have never learn this e book proposal in 11 years. I simply occurred to have discovered it in my Google Drive paperwork after I was looking for one thing else.

Upon re-reading the e book proposal, I discovered it to be fairly good! Alas, I am biased.

Instance Of A Rejected Guide Proposal

Title: How To Engineer Your Layoff: Make A Small Fortune and Stay The Life You’ve At all times Needed

Submitted by

Sam Dogen

Tackle

E-mail

Introduced on June 15, 2012

I.  THE CONTENT

A.  Premise

In a latest research by Manpower Inc, 44% of respondents say they’re “unhappy” with their jobs. With roughly 138 million taxpayers in America, at the least 61 million People are searching for one thing extra significant to their jobs. 

Go over to China, and that quantity is probably going within the a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands. Sadly, folks really feel caught of their jobs due to payments to pay and debt obligations to satisfy. There’s a unending quantity of nervousness skilled by hundreds of thousands of staff.

Until one plans to work till loss of life, there’s at all times a backstop the place one not needs to work. Because of this, this e book just isn’t solely focused to the disgruntled employee, however to all staff. 

How To Engineer Your Layoff will educate folks learn how to strategically negotiate their layoff by constructing key relationships and deploying numerous methods to make sure most return. 

B. Distinctive Promoting Proposition

There are many books that present you learn how to get a job, however there are none that present you learn how to exit a job with a wholesome severance bundle. 

It’s just like the age outdated consumer grievance to his stockbroker that they at all times get suggestions on when to purchase, however by no means to promote. As an govt who has engineered his personal layoff, readers of this e book will:

1)    Understand workers have unbelievable authorized rights and aren’t simply discarded rag dolls in an ever rising world of company energy.

2)    Discover ways to efficiently negotiate with giant firms with out the necessity for costly authorized council.

3)    Examine success tales of particular person individuals who have engineered their layoffs.

4)    Suppose critically about their monetary future in order that when the time involves separate, they are going to be greater than able to take the leap of religion.

5)    Plan for all times after work.

C.  Guide Overview

The manuscript might be divided into 16 chapters consisting of a number of matters.

Introduction

Desk Of Contents

Chapter 1: Take Again Your Life

Chapter 2: Your Worst Enemy Is Additionally Your Greatest Pal

Chapter 3: Time For A Coronary heart To Coronary heart With Your Boss

Chapter 4: When All Else Fails, Convey In The Huge Weapons

Chapter 5: What To Look For Throughout Severance Negotiations

Chapter 6: Case Research Of Individuals Who Have Efficiently Been Let Go

Chapter 7: Negotiating A Separation Package deal When Becoming a member of A Competitor

Chapter 8: Grey Space Separation Maximization Methods

Chapter 9: Why I Left My Job

Chapter 10: Life After Separation

Chapter 11: Rediscover Your Numerous Earnings Streams

Chapter 12: Causes Why You Ought to Not Engineer Your Personal Layoff

Chapter 13: Causes Why You Ought to Engineer Your Layoff

Chapter 14: How To Retire Early And By no means Have To Work Once more

Chapter 15: Making Your Financial savings Work For You

Chapter 16: The Privilege Of Giving Again And Sharing Our Data

Conclusion

Sources

Acknowledgements

D.  The Manuscript

1. Manuscript Standing: I’ve written 30,000 phrases to this point. With the framework in place, I’m ready to put in writing 55,000 extra phrases to complete the e book. Moreover, I’ve over 100,000 phrases written in numerous weblog posts from which I can draw info.

2. Particular Options: The chapters will comprise subheads, lists, bullet factors, and a evaluation field of key factors for environment friendly studying. 

3. Anticipated Size: 60,000-85,000 phrases.

4. Anticipated manuscript completion date: Roughly 60 days after receiving a dedication from the writer.

II.  THE MARKET

A. Traits

There are 138 million taxpayers in America immediately. Roughly 44% of staff within the newest survey by Manpower Inc revealed they’re “unhappy” with their job, and one other 20% who’re borderline. 

In different phrases, greater than 60 million People want to do one thing else extra significant with their lives and logically engineer their very own layoffs. 

The target market isn’t simply the disgruntled employee. Sooner or later, all people will cease working. With the decline in pensions and a fickle economic system, all people wants a information to determine learn how to maximize their separation. 

B.  Motivation

The viewers for this e book is made up of people that don’t have the talents, data, or braveness to face their superiors and negotiate their freedom. It’s as if the US workforce is one massive zombie wasteland, begrudgingly following orders to stroll off a cliff till no extra. 

C. Scalability

How To Engineer Your Layoff might be written in a method that’s scaleable throughout all cultures, and throughout a number of industries in numerous international locations. 

The e book touches concerning the softer facet of human feelings and negotiation ways that transcend all areas. 

Do you actually assume your landlord will increase your lease after you get them tickets to your favourite opera? Will the Human Sources supervisor hearth you in case you introduced her a shawl again from her favourite island of Santorini? 

I’ll write my e book in a method that’s translatable and relevant in many alternative languages. I grew up in six totally different international locations and have visited 30 different international locations. Because of this, I’ve the flexibility to narrate to a big number of audiences.

D. Platform And Affinity Teams

1.     150,000+ month-to-month guests to FinancialSamurai.com

2.     3,000 Twitter followers of @FinancialSamura

3.     The eye of a whole bunch of essentially the most influential private finance bloggers on the net because the founding father of the Yakezie Community of PF and Way of life Blogs.

4.     Yakezie Community’s potential attain is round 750,000 pageviews a month.

5.     The burgeoning early retirement / FIRE neighborhood which I helped kickstart in 2009

6.     The hundreds of Occupy Wall Road protesters who needs to take again their lives and battle for his or her rights in opposition to giant firms.

7.     The hundreds of thousands of staff in extremely cyclical industries equivalent to semiconductor, banking, consulting, capital items, communications, power, and transportation who expertise employment whiplash each time the economic system goes by means of a increase and bust

E.  Comparable Books

I’ve by no means come throughout on-line, or within the bookstore a e book on learn how to get laid off and negotiate an exceptional severance bundle. All of the books are about learn how to get a job, learn how to interview, how to decide on an trade that matches you and so forth. 

Getting laid off is massive enterprise, with massive payoffs. Doing a fast search on Amazon, I’ve discovered the next three books. The most recent e book was printed in 2010 and is a comedy.

1.  How To Get Fired!: The New Worker’s Information To Perpetual Unemployment by Jeff Havens (Writer: Huge Pow! Books; 1st version (April 1, 2010)).  Guide is a comedy and doesn’t provide the instruments to barter actual cash severance.

2. Getting Fired: What to Do if You are Fired, Downsized, Laid Off, Restructured, Discharged, Terminated, or Compelled to Resign by Steven Sack (Grand Central Publishing (January 15, 2000)). Outdated.

3. Fireplace Me, Please! 101 Methods to Get Fired from Your Depressing Job by David Cordell (Dreamcan Books (December 27, 2004)). Outdated. Solely 96 pages.

My e book might be distinctive as a result of:

1. Dwelling my e book in real-time. I managed to work for 13 years on Wall St., construct a internet price of three million {dollars} by age 34, construct a well-liked private finance weblog, and engineer my layoff that paid for 5 plus years of regular residing bills.

2. A strong platform. With the creation of Monetary Samurai and the Yakezie Community, I’ve a big platform to market and distribute my e book.  Not one of the authors have the identical platform and presence on-line. 

3. Scaleable. The e book might be written in a method that may join throughout staff in Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, and Asia. The e book won’t be restricted to only the 138 million staff in America.

III. THE AUTHOR

A. Background

I’m a 13-year veteran of Wall St. who turned a Vice President on the of 27, and a Director at 30. I managed a multi-million greenback enterprise in San Francisco for one of many main funding banks.

In 2012, on the age of 34, I spotted my dream of working for myself by efficiently engineering my very own layoff.  I obtained my undergraduate diploma Magna Cum Laude from The School of William & Mary and my MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas Faculty of Enterprise.

I grew up in six totally different international locations (Philippines, Zambia, US, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia) and might communicate Mandarin. My hobbies embrace investing in the true property and inventory markets, enjoying poker, tennis, snowboarding, golf, mountaineering, and touring. 

In 2009, I began the private finance weblog, Monetary Samurai, which has grown to be one of the vital extensively learn private finance blogs on the net with over 150,000 pageviews a month. Monetary Samurai has a Pagerank of 4, mozRank of 5.5, an Alexa Rank of 30,000, and a Area Authority of 66. 

In December, 2009, I began the Yakezie Community, which now has 100 of the perfect private finance and life-style bloggers on-line as Members. The potential attain of the Yakezie Community is within the 1 million+ pageviews a month.

B. Private Advertising and marketing

• I’ll faucet my complete Community of bloggers inside the Yakezie Community to assist promote and grow to be associates of my e book. The utmost potential attain is over 750,000 readers a month.

• I plan to talk at Fincon 2012, Weblog World and another convention who can have me.

• I’ll create video content material on my website, and visitor put up on at the least 10 different extremely rated blogs.

• I’ll do at the least 10 podcast interviews from throughout totally different genres, and totally different international locations to get the message out.

• I’ll contact base with all my ex shoppers and colleagues within the trade to assist them unfold the world.  I’ll ship private e-mails to associates in cyclical industries to additionally assist spotlight the e book.

IV. Pattern Content material

Chapter 1: Take Again Your Life

Welcome to the start of the top! You’re sick of your job and don’t know learn how to get out. Day-after-day that passes seems like one other ounce of distress crushing your soul. 

You have been as soon as once more handed up for promotion as your boss makes your life hell. You’ll be able to not stand your co-workers, particularly the one who retains whistling some tune you may’t stand and the slob who cracks hard-boiled eggs at his desk for breakfast.

Your commute is so lengthy you’re certain child pandas are dying due to your air pollution. In the meantime, you may’t assist however marvel if even a monkey can do your job. You didn’t go to high school to join this!

Thousands and thousands of persons are caught in work conditions the place they really feel trapped. A Could 2012 research by Proper Administration a Manpower subsidiary, discovered that solely 11% of individuals have been happy with their jobs and that 16% have been “considerably happy.”  A full 44% have been dissatisfied.  However you already knew this! 

With payments to pay and dependents to feed, how can we be irresponsible and voluntarily abandon a gentle paycheck? With unemployment charges at 8%-20% ranges all over the world, there’s no assure we’ll ever discover one other an analogous paying job once more!

What do you worth extra? Freedom or the hypnotic attract of cash? I think in case you’ve bought this e book, the reply is freedom.  For many of us, work is a method to an finish.  Work to dwell relatively than dwell to work. 

Think about A Completely different Surroundings

Think about somebody providing you with $20,000 to not work. Or how about $50,000, $100,000, and even $500,000? Greater than possible, you’ll be ecstatic and take it, particularly in case you have been considering of leaving anyway.

Let’s flip issues round and picture a situation the place your organization says you need to pay $20,000, $50,000, $100,000, $500,000 with a purpose to stop your job. 

This proposition is just like a slave having to work off his debt to achieve freedom. It’s absolute horseshit, however in actuality, quitting your job with out something in return may be very related. Positive, you may achieve your freedom by quitting your job, however you’re additionally dropping all of your earnings!

Many individuals are afraid to method their boss a few separation settlement. Much more folks don’t notice workers have highly effective rights. When you realize your rights, you’re in a position to maximize your returns. 

One pal managed to carry off getting laid off for for 2 years in Seoul, South Korea. He discovered that workers can’t be terminated with out extreme monetary penalty to the corporate except an worker volunteers or conducts gross negligence. In these two years, my pal was in a position to present for his household, save a ton of cash, and go away with a separation bundle valued at 2X his wage.

Know you’re serving to your boss make the troublesome determination of whom to let go. Some obtain $5,000 for leaving, whereas others might obtain $500,000. No matter sum you obtain is healthier than zero and all gravy. Better of all, bonus cash provides you a pleasant cushion to embark on the brand new life you’ve chosen. 

I, the Monetary Samurai, am right here to assist make what you think about a actuality.

The Largest Push Backs To Negotiating A Severance

I’ve talked to over 100 less-than-satisfied workers concerning the topic of engineering their layoffs as a substitute of simply quitting.  I at all times inform them that as a substitute of complaining, to do one thing about their scenario!  The commonest excuses I get are:

• “I discover it disingenuous to scheme learn how to get let go.  It’s extra honorable to stop.”
• “I’ve a number of delight in my work and might’t see myself taking it down a notch.”
• “If I engineer my very own layoff, I worry that I gained’t have the ability to get employed once more.”

Most of those persons are both too younger, or too naïve. They haven’t labored lengthy sufficient within the work pressure to get screwed over by a co-worker, boss, or financial cycle. Additional, they haven’t seen sufficient good associates and family members lose their jobs by means of no fault of their very own. By the point you are executed studying, you will notice that negotiating a severance is feasible.

One in every of my associates acquired let go whereas on trip simply two years earlier than he might begin receiving retirement advantages. He was 54 on the time and the perfect mailroom clerk one might have! The corporate might have minimize any variety of financially safe workers, however selected to chop a 10-year veteran of the agency who barely made $30,000 a yr. Shameful.

As a former supervisor who participated within the hiring and firing of individuals, I virtually at all times observed when an worker’s enthusiasm began to fade. Work at all times follows the center. 

Ideas Comply with Motion

In case you are studying this e book, however have one of many above frequent responses, you’re considering issues by means of. Is it nonetheless scheming if you don’t act, however your thoughts thinks in any other case? After all it’s. Wanting to determine learn how to go away your job demonstrates you not have the complete need to work and carry out such as you used to.

There are hundreds of thousands of individuals on the market who would gladly take your place for much less cash and work tougher as well. Denying folks this chance is egocentric. As an alternative, do society justice. Let somebody who needs your job do it and work out learn how to go away your job gracefully and in your phrases. 

The worst worker is the one who complains concerning the scenario and does nothing to it.

Gone are the times of firm loyalty to workers and firm pensions. One should look out for themselves first as a result of the corporate and only a few different folks will. 

Now that you just’ve executed some self-discovery, it’s time to get to work!

Thank You

I firmly consider my e book will allow hundreds of thousands of individuals to interrupt free from depressing jobs to dwell extra significant leaves. I did not assume negotiating a severance was attainable till I attempted.

Thanks in your time and consideration.

Regards,

Sam

Guide Proposal Assessment

So there you have got it! My rejected e book proposal. Not too unhealthy proper? It’s extra thorough than I had remebered.

I think the e book proposal was rejected as a result of negotiating a severance was too uncommon a subject, despite the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of workers who will ultimately transfer on. Maybe the thought of negotiating a severance to FIRE was too new of an idea since FIRE had not gone mainstream but. Or perhaps I simply did not contact the proper literary brokers. I am unsure.

What I do know is having a platform is the principle method to get a e book take care of a conventional writer. Given publishers do not actually market your e book, you want an current platform to assist unfold the phrase. But when you have already got an current platform, it’s possible you’ll relatively self publish and earn higher economics as a substitute.

No matter route you determine, construct a platform and construct a model. For those who do these two stuff you’ll have a a lot simpler probability of touchdown a e book deal. On the very least, you need to have the ability to have a literary agent reply to you!

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