Concentrate on achieving one or all of these things when pitching your article. By demonstrating the value of your book. Instead of telling the reader how beneficial your book might be to them, illustrate this point through the information you share. If your book features the history of scooters in America, write an entertaining and informative article about the evolution of scooters, famous people who rode scooters as children or a service piece featuring scooter safety tips for children. Anyone interested in these topics would probably buy your book.
Many popular magazines use book excerpts.
Of course, they generally want excerpts from books that relate to their magazine-cooking magazines want excerpts from cookbooks, a travel magazine will quote travel books and a poetry magazines wants to excerpt poetry books. A chapter or sections extracted from your book. Use your imagination to come up with some possibilities. If your book features Native American art, for example, a California history or travel magazine might be interested in publishing your chapter on California tribes. An excerpt from a book on tax tips for home-based businesses might provide a good article for a writer's magazine.