Full-length MSS. Biography, history, reference, current affairs, and packaging journalists and celebrities for the book market (worldwide 15%).
Submission Guidelines:
- 1 page mini-synopsis highlighting with bullet points what makes the book new and special
- 1 page cv
- 1 page with a few lines on the five most recent competing and comparable books giving author, title, publisher and date of publication together with a note on how the books relate to the author's own book
- 1 page on sources used
- 1 page on any specialist marketing outlets such as websites, organisations or magazines
- 1 page synopsis per chapter
- A sample chapter and, if appropriate, some photographs
No reading fee; will suggest a revision.
Authors include Juliet Barker, the Joyce Cary Estate, Tom Devine, Duncan Falconer, Jonathan Fryer, Laurence Gardner, Cathy Glass, Timothy Good, David Hasselhoff, Lawrence James, Damien Lewis, Julian Maclaren-Ross Estate, Norma Major, Nick Pope, Martin Pugh, Desmond Seward, David Stafford, Daniel Tammet; The Oxford Classical Dictionary , The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English .
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