1. STAGE 1: Selection and Preparation of Manuscripts
Publishing Principles and Practice ACP 2079
STAGE 1: Selection and Preparation of Manuscripts

2. This Week’s Lecture is…
Based on a reading of the set text, Self-Publishing Made Simple by Euan Mitchell, pages ix-38.

3. Defining a Publishing Proposal
Based on the needs of reader or needs of writer?
Answering the Publishing Paradox: “How to write something different that has been done before.”
Survey of appropriate genre
Picking a ‘gap’ in the market

4. Research and Writing Process
C-SAW approach
Collect
Select
Arrange
Write

5. Assisting Writers with ‘Block’
Left/right brain techniques
Brainstorming WHAT the writer wants to say (right brain)
Taking a break
Forming complete sentences with attention to HOW words are organised (left brain)

6. Editing
Structural Editing
Copyediting
Proofreading

7. House Style
Style Manual for Authors, Editor and Printers (6th edn) John Wiley & Sons.
House Style Guide
House Dictionary

8. Freelance Editors In-house or freelance editors?
The Society of Editors
The Register of Freelance Editors 2006

9. Manuscript Submission
Commissioned manuscripts
Unsolicited manuscripts – who accepts them?
The slush pile

10. Literary Agents Author–publisher go-betweens?
Signing up first-time authors vs poaching established authors
The literary ‘Catch 22’
Contract and legal advice
Creative nurturing
Commissions paid

11. The Publishing Contract
Expectations of publishers
Expectations of authors
Independent legal advice: the Arts/Law Centre of Australia
The Australian Society of Authors
Royalty rates
Reversion clauses

12. Related Publishing Questions
How long is a book kept in print?
What is a publisher’s ‘backlist’?
What is Print on Demand?
What sources of funding are available to writers and publishers?
Would Julie’s book really sell more than Poh’s?
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