TDC/Key steps

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• Notes to myself
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• Forms for page setup

The Digital Campus

Key Steps suggfested by Prtwood-Stacer<\h3> 1: Identify your target presses 2: Research and evaluate your target presses 3: Gather submission information for your target presses and summarize your book’s fit

• Examine proposal templates and submission requirements

• Identify appropriate acquisitions editors (and series editors if applicable)

• Write up paragraphs summarizing the fit between your book and each target press

4: Generate raw material for your proposal package 5: Draft a letter of inquiry to introduce your project to editors 6: Collect a list of comp titles 7: Articulate your book’s audience

• Answer some typical questions from an author questionnaire

• Write up a paragraph or two about your target audience

8: State your book’s thesis

• Look at your written materials for statements of argument

• Write up a one-paragraph summary of the book’s core argument

9: Distill a one-liner for your project 10: Draft a project description 11: Summarize your book’s chapters 12: Come up with working titles for your book and its chapters 13: Revise your proposal materials for style and voice 14: Write an author biography 15: Create an author CV from your full CV 16: Assemble your prospectus 17: Prepare to connect with editors

• Draft an email asking to meet

• Practice your oral quick pitch

18: Submit your proposal POST-SUBMISSION STEPS 19: Respond to your reader reports 20: Get a head start on your promotion efforts From: Laura Portwood-Stacer, The Book Proposal Book: A Guide fopr Scholarly Authors, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, (pp 151-2)