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8 Signs Your Idea is Ready for a Book Deal

Meghan Stevenson
1 min readSep 22, 2024

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  1. This idea is unique to you and hasn’t already been made into a book yet*
  2. This idea is more than an idea — it is a framework, a methodology, or an approach.
  3. You have shared this idea, gotten feedback, and refined the idea over time**
  4. This idea has gotten results for hundreds of people**
  5. Readers can learn this idea in book form (i.e., you don’t need video/audio/to be in person)
  6. You are known as the creator of this idea
  7. You have grown an audience of preferably 100,000+ who have proven they will spend money to fix the problem you solve
  8. This idea is similar to other ideas that have been turned into successful books*

Thanks to Spring for submitting the question that inspired this post!

Cheers to your success,
— Meghan

*do your research

**with preferably hundreds/thousands of people that you don’t know.

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Meghan Stevenson
Meghan Stevenson

Written by Meghan Stevenson

I help entrepreneurs, experts and thought leaders create book proposals that sell to major publishers. I also run marathons, save senior dogs and love the Mets.

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