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Identifying Your Academic Book's Main Audience & Finding a Publisher
Introduction to This Course on Identifying Your Audience
Introduction: Welcome to this Course!
The Stakes of Mis-Identifying or Refusing to Narrow Your Audience
How to Use Teachable
This Workshop's Actionable Content, Examples, and Videos
Help me help you! (Your opportunity for FREE, tailored advice)
Using Subject Areas & BISAC Categories to Understand How Presses See Your Book
Introduction: Presses' "Blunt Instruments"
Step 1: Using Press Websites' Subject Areas
Step 2: Cross-Referencing Subject Areas by Using Individual Titles
Step 3: Prioritizing Your List and Capturing "Other" Audiences
Step 4: Transitioning to & Learning about BISAC Categories
Step 5: Exploring BISAC Categories More Fully
Step 6: Sorting Your BISAC Categories
Identifying Your Book's Audience Using Your Disciplinary Knowledge
Introduction to The Work You'll Do in This Module
Step 1: Identifying ALL Broad Academic Disciplines
Step 2: Laying out What These Audiences Would Mean for Your Book
Step 3: Further Nuance Your Disciplinary Audiences Using The "Happens to Use" Test
Step 4: Confirming and Nuancing Your Main Audience Using the Mish Mash Activity
Synthesizing What You Learned about Your Book's Audience
Step 1: Synthesizing Your Knowledge of Your One Primary Audience
Step 2: Synthesizing Your Knowledge of "Will Also Be of Interest to" Audiences
Step 3: Preparing Notes about Accommodating these Audiences
Step 4: Broad Audience Review & Reflect
Using Your Knowledge about Audience to Find Target Presses & Prepare Proposals
Introduction to Finding Target Presses
Creating, Narrowing, and Ranking the Long List
Close Reading Press Lists to Ensure They Publish Books Like Yours
Querying Mentors and Recent Authors about Your Target Presses
Considerations for Preparing the Manuscript for Your Audience
Introduction to Preparing Your Manuscript in Light of Your Audience
Main Questions to Keep in Mind as You Prepare the Manuscript Prose
Where to Accommodate Audiences: Body Prose and Footnotes
Accommodating Audiences in Different Types of Paragraphs
What next?
Next Steps with Your Book
Step 3: Further Nuance Your Disciplinary Audiences Using The "Happens to Use" Test
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