Examples of editor search queries:

• In the above example, the search will find any book proposal that has Islam in its content and includes writer credentials that include the term "published." In this way, you could find published writers (usually), since the description of the writer could have something about other work published. Name and category are ignored for this search. Note that the checked box stipulates AND logic, searching for all the terms in one entry. Uncheck this to find either Islam OR published.

• You seek authors with manuscripts about family abuse, possibly a manuscript for children or about child abuse. You enter the word abuse in the content search space. Results: the archives provide summaries of 62 manuscripts that deal with abuse. Of these 22 are fiction and 2 are specifically for children.

• You want to publish for pastors and your company has been urged by the alumni association of Fuller Seminary to find unpublished books by its graduates. You enter the search term Fuller in the marketing search space. Results:  30 manuscripts are by people connected to Fuller.

• You are looking for Christian writers connected to or graduates of Harvard. You enter the word Harvard in the marketing space. Results: 16 items. Yale gets you 10. Princeton 12. Stanford 7. Oxford 11.

• You seek books about Islam, especially fictional works that would interpret that religion for lay readers. You enter search terms Islam, Muslim, or Moslem in both the content and marketing spaces. Results: 6 proposals turn up in content and 3 are fictional treatments. Muslim finds 3 more.

• You can use AND logic or OR logic in your search. AND will combine all your choices into a search for an entry that has all those terms at once. OR will seek entries that have any one of your choices. Use the check box at the bottom of the screen. The default will be OR, looking for any entry that has even one item in it.

For further information on the archive search feature, click here.  And don’t miss the opportunities in the current report (which, like all of the current year, would not be in the archives). Let these creative writers be a part of your editorial brainstorming.

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