BOOK PROPOSALS FROM AUTHORS

Submitting a proposal for a book
Since 1992 The Spinney Press has produced publications for the educational market at the rate of eighteen titles per year.

We are keen to further expand our list of titles and welcome all well-considered proposals for educational reference, illustrated and text books from primary school to tertiary level.

The general topic areas of our publishing focus are:

• Social issues
• Health and wellbeing
• Rights and discrimination
• Substance use
• Family and relationships
• Global/environmental issues
• Indigenous issues
• Crime and justice issues
• Media
• Bioethics
• Welfare

What to include in your proposal
It is essential that you include the following in your proposal if The Spinney Press is to properly assess its publishing viability:

• The reason for your book (no more than 100 words).
• An outline with abstracts on each chapter (no more than 100 words per chapter).
• An estimate of the total number of words of your proposed or existing manuscript.
• A summary of your background, experience and qualifications relevant to the manuscript (approximately 100 words).
• The intended market for your published book i.e. specific courses, the educational level of the text or reference, etc.

Unlike a number of larger publishers, The Spinney Press will give you a prompt response to your proposal, within two weeks. Please do not send your entire manuscript.

Style
Should The Spinney Press wish to pursue your proposal to manuscript development stage, an in-house Style Guide is provided to authors in order to ensure consistency in punctuation, spelling and grammar.

What NOT to submit
Please note that The Spinney Press is an educational publisher, and does not publish works of fiction, poetry or autobiography.

Owing to the vast amount of information that The Spinney Press already compiles in its research on topics in the Issues in Society series of educational resource books, we do not accept unsolicited article submissions.

Where to submit your book proposal
Email your proposal to editor@spinneypress.com.au
or
Post your proposal to:

The Publisher
The Spinney Press
PO Box 438
Thirroul NSW 2515
Australia