A Publisher's Conversation with Authors: Publishers' Criteria for Book Acquisition
It is Tuesday. Time to tall turkey. Monday's madness is over, and Wednesday will take us over the hump, so Tuesday it is--for some serious discussion with authors. Tuesday talks mean to address authors in waiting and self-published authors who would like to go a more traditional route or who would at least like to take their steps with a publisher by their side. Today's topic attempts to answer questions that authors often wish they could ask about how they can get their books accepted by a published. While publishers differ in their needs for topics, specialist authors, and markets addressed, they pretty much all have the same criteria for book acquisition. Here are the major criteria that you can expect an acquisitions editor to consider in determining whether or not to take on your book: Is there a market for this kind of book? This is one of the important questions on the proposal, and often, authors kill their chances for book acceptancy by overstatement, saying that t...