The Business of Art: Get what you're worth for the work that you do

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Doctor Dope: Oct 4, 2005; timey-wimey fruity booty

How do I go about pitching college essays to a textbook publishing company? I've tried a few different searches and all I get for results are sketchy essay mills.

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Doctor Dope: Oct 4, 2005; timey-wimey fruity booty

Defenestration posted:

Are you trying to pitch a book of essays, or just sell your own as one-offs?

Because if it's the latter, I've never heard of it being done that way (like a magazine pitch process). Either the professors who are authoring the book will have examples from their own classes/department that serve a particular pedagogy, or the publishing house will have freelancers write them.

The English department head at the school I just graduated from actually wrote/published his own English textbook using student essays as examples. I don't know if he or anyone else at the college is writing another one, but I thought it might be worth it to at least email the guy with a few examples of my work and ask, but I want to make sure I won't look like an amateur moron first. :ohdear:

# ¿ May 26, 2012 04:27

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