The phrase "a draft of a book" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an early version or manuscript of a book that is still in the process of being written or revised.
Example: "After months of hard work, I finally completed a draft of a book that I hope to publish next year."
Alternatives: "a manuscript of a book" or "a version of a book".
She began a draft of a book about an eighth grader who tries to raise money for a trip to France by planning parties for classmates.
He compiled a dossier of nefarious connections, typed it up in a draft of a book called "Scandal", and offered it free to any national newspaper that would publish it.
When you have written a draft of a book and told the story that you want to tell, it's the space in between, when you move away from it, that you start to see what you have really written.
I sort of had done all the research and written a draft of a book.
Like Dan, as I write a draft of a book, I trim overgrown sentences, plant new words, or compost entire chapters when the book isn't moving along at a satisfying pace, the chronology of the plot is error-ridden, or the characters lie flat on the page instead of living and breathing in the reader's head.
I deliberately watched none of the Zimmerman trial, just as I have deliberately not read a draft of a new book by Jen Marlowe and others, soon to be published: I Am Troy Davis, about a young black man in Georgia who was, by all indications, innocent of any crime – but was put to death recently by the state.
That will probably require changing the dissertation from a draft of an academic book into something shorter and simpler.
In March this year the publisher dealing with the biography was burgled and a computer containing a draft of the book was stolen.
Educating girls is not ordinarily seen as a climate strategy, but a draft of the book notes that, with seven or more years of education, a girl in the developing world will marry four years later and have 2.2 fewer children.
In just a few weeks, Ms. Beard, who has helped popularize the study of antiquity through television and a lively blog, A Don's Life, turned 58; finished a draft of her book on Roman laughter; became an officer of the Order of the British Empire; and attended the funeral of a lifelong friend and editor, Peter Carson.
