Specialization in Creative Narrative Recipe Books

Overview

“Now that we know how to build the structure of a cookbook. I will explain what you need to do to create enough material to be able to pitch your book to a traditional agent or publisher. We'll also see an example of a book proposal, which you will need if you wish to have your cookbook published traditionally.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Structure Needed for a Pitch, which is part of the Domestika online course: Specialization in Creative Narrative Recipe Books. Create narrative cookbooks by blending gastronomic writing, personal storytelling, and culinary illustrations to captivate readers.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, I'm going to teach you how to create a structure for pitching your cookbook. So for doing that, you have to first create a book proposal if you are going to go and get a regular literary agent. I'm going to show you how to do that. Here are a few points about writing a cookbook proposal. A quick proposal is usually written in tandem with your agent sometimes, but if you are pitching it to an agent, it's good to have this sort of formal format which you can use for most non-fiction. books. And since a cookbook is a nonfiction book, this is how you would start. The idea would ...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Creative Narrative Recipe Books

• Level: Beginner
• 25 students
• 6 units
• 63 lessons (9h 51m)
• 21 downloads

• Category

  Illustration, Writing

• Areas

  Content Writing, Creative Writing, Painting, Storytelling, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting, Writing