How Do You Submit Teaching Ideas To Publishers?
So you have some great teaching ideas you would like to express through a book that might help revolutionize the industry. Where do you start? You’re a current or former teacher with no formal education in English or journalism. You first need to understand how the publishing business works and what outlets might be suitable for your book idea. Think about your teaching ideas and how you can condense them onto one page. This page of information will become your sales letter or query. Publishers receive hundreds of thousands of book ideas each year, and many of them are horrible. Publishers do not want to sit through hours of reading each manuscript, so they have adopted the query letter, also used by the film and television industries. A one- or two-page query letter provides a hook (one- or two-sentence premise of the book), a brief summary and any writing background that might strengthen your credentials. Since this is the first thing any book publisher will view, you letter needs to
