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Effortless: How To Make It Easier To Do What Matters Most With NYT Best Selling Author Greg McKeown

The Bossticks

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How to Structure a Book Proposal

I just signed, literally actually signed the contract, I think this week, for book three. And it was so easy. Almost was like, did that really happen? Because the first for essentialism, I wrote this whole thing. It took me a month of graphical work. That's what got us going. Book two, I flew to New York. We still had a meeting. What we sent, what my agent sent was like a two-page document. The language behind this is don't take the existing process you followed in the past and simplify it. Start with zero and say, can I do this in one step? If it's not one step, is there two steps

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