Editors in search of writers, authorities, and manuscripts . . .
You can use the search feature in our archives to find topics and potential writers on most of the common subjects and many obscure ones you may want to pursue.
Example: You'd like to find a book on Mexican migrant workers, fictional for children. Enter a key word like "Mexico" or "Mex" into the content search. Or you might want to find potential books on family conflicts. Use a key word like "conflict" or "family" or "abuse" and see what has been submitted over nine years. Like other search methods, this one looks for an entire string, so use the shortest unique expression you can. "Mex" would find Mexico, Mexican, Tex-Mex, and other words with that string. It is case sensitive, so try your words as upper or lower case.
The query will be using or logic as a default. That is, it will find any match for any of the terms you fill in. Check the search method box to combine those terms in single entries to impose a tighter search.
This database is faster than digging through a "slush pile" and it has been creamed for the better top half of the freelance submissions. These are our acceptances, not everything submitted. We think some of our publishers would find every entry useful, even though no publisher would jump for every item.
Find people for your research:
Another use for the archives is the quest for authorities and knowledgeable
readers of manuscripts in certain specialized areas. You may have a book ready
for publication but you would like a scholar or an experienced person to read it
over for errors and oversights. Do a search for the subject using key words and
see who might be available.
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