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How to Write a Book Foreword: A Checklist for Authors

Here’s a list of important questions to think about to help ensure you’ve written a thorough and comprehensive foreword. Not all of the questions here will apply to your prologue. However, these questions should help you critically analyze what you have written and help you fine-tune your foreword. In answering these questions, you should keep in mind that a book’s foreword is essential to a book’s bestseller. The foreword will play an essential role in marketing the book. And, as the author of the foreword, you will use this foreword for your own marketing and promotion.

The initial questions

1. Did you read the book?
2. And understand it?

The First Section

3. Does the first section of your foreword explain how you know the author of the book?
4. Explain your connection to the author of the book?
5. Do you know the author personally? How and why?
6. Do you introduce yourself to the reader in the first section?
7. Did you tell readers why you are qualified to write the foreword?
8. Do you tell readers what you are famous for?

The Second Section

9. Does the second section show why the author is a reliable person to have written this book?
10. Does it explain the content of the book to the reader?
11. Explain the benefits of reading this book?
12. Did you explain why this book should be relevant to the reader?
13. Does the content of the book connect to experiences or feelings with which the reader can identify?
14. Do you mention some of the good points of the book?
15. Do you give a very brief synopsis of the book?
16. Did you use any anecdotes about the book and the author?
17. Did you use a real-world example that illustrates the theme of the book?

The conclusion

18. Does the conclusion remind the reader why you are writing the foreword?
19. And why does it matter?
20. Does the prologue come full circle by referring to something from the first section?

signing your name

21. Did you put your name, title and location at the end of the prologue?
22. Did you include the title of your own book?

additional questions

23. Throughout the prologue, did you keep the tone simple and personal, but keep your writing strict?
24. Did you make sure your prologue had a beginning, a middle, and an end?
25. Did you make sure each section had a beginning, a middle, and an end?
26. Did you check the spelling several times?

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