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Identifying Your Audience & Finding a Scholarly Publisher
Intro to This Mini-Course
Introduction and Overview to This Mini-Course
Mini-Course Worksheet
Identifying Your Book's Primary (Main) Audience
Defining Primary/Main Audience
Common Pitfalls When Identifying Main Audience
Evaluating Sample Ways of Naming Main Audience
Intro to Identifying Your Book's Main Audience
Using the Conference Test to Describe Your Book's Main Audience
Naming Your Book's Main Audience
Double-Checking Your Main Audience
Identifying Your Book's Secondary ("also of interest to") Audience(s)
Identifying Your Secondary Audiences & Contribution(s)
Writing Your Book Proposal's Audience Section
Intro to Writing Your Proposal's Audience Section
Example Audience Section from Katelyn's Proposal
Common Problems with Audience Section
Finding Target Presses & Assessing "Fit"
Using Audience to Identify Target Publishers
An Introduction to "Fit" and How to Assess It
How to Assess Fit, Example 1
How to Assess Fit, Example 2
Using Query Letters to Assess Fit
Tailoring Your Manuscript to Your Audiences
Tailoring to Your Audience through Background Information
Tailoring To Your Audience's Expectations
Tailoring Your Significance to Your Audience
Audience and Publishers Q&A
Do You Have any Reources or Recommendations on Working with Trade Presses?
I am writing a nonstandard book. To date publishers have told me "we don't publish this type of thing." Help?
My anxiety is that my primary audience is too small—like five or six people. Is this a problem?
My work is quite interdisciplinary and spans more than two disciplines that tend to be critical of each other. How do I navigate this?
I'm an editor. How can I help clients who want to use the "kitchen sink approach" to audience identification?
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