Tips for Writers and Publishers: Making the Most of Acquisitions Programs  

The production of books that suit a publisher’s guidelines and find their appropriate market requires a perfect match of publisher and author. This panel discussion will explore the dynamics of authors and publishing professionals working to achieve that match. Acqui-sitions professionals and a technical book writer and editor will pro-vide information about what publishers expect from manuscripts and how they work with authors, suggest how writers can find the right publishers for their books, and describe how one successful techni-cal book acquisitions program was built. The discussion should be of interest to technical writers and editors hoping to publish and to publishing professionals in the trade or college book market.

Sakson, Donna M., Ted Buchholz, Eric Stroo and Jennifer M. Ginn. STC Proceedings (1993). Presentations>Writing>Publishing