In order to decide whether your book idea would be a good fit for our Education list, our Editors need to have a proposal from you. A proposal gives us information such as: an outline of your idea, who you are aiming the book at and a bit about you. The guidelines below list the information you should include in your proposal, so please download the form most relevant to your project:
Download Preparing a Book Proposal - Academic (including Initial Teacher Eduaction)
Download Preparing a Book Proposal - Professional
Download Preparing a Book Proposal - School Management and Leadership
You should submit your proposal by email to the Commissioning Editor responsible for the area that best matches your proposal (see details are at the bottom of the guidelines or on our Meet the Team page). Please do not submit to multiple editors – we will pass your proposal on to the right person if we think it would be more suitable for consideration by another editor or for another list.
Our Commissioning Process
The Commissioning Editor will assess the suitability of your proposal for our list and may approach external readers for peer review. If successful at this stage, the proposal will be presented at our publishing meeting and discussed by the editorial, sales, marketing and production teams. If the proposal is approved at this point, the Commissioning Editor will be given authorisation to offer a contract to you.
Happy writing!
