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DawnSignPress is a specialty publisher of instructional materials for
the educational market. We receive dozens of manuscripts and query
letters from aspiring writers hoping to get their work published.
Because of our small staff and the limited number of new titles we
publish each year, we are unable to review or respond to the large
number of unsolicited materials mailed to our
office. Often we are asked to explain our
criteria for publishing a manuscript. The standards we use are unique
to DawnSignPress. Beyond our role as a publisher of other people's
work, we also develop some of our own products, reducing available
resources for developing and publishing outside projects.
To assist you in determining whether you meet our
guidelines, here is an outline of DawnSignPress's publishing
criteria: - Focus must be on educational and
instructional materials related to American Sign Language (ASL) and
American Deaf culture.
- Authors
must be established educators or
researchers.
- Authors must be
widely recognized in their field and offer a unique teaching concept or
teaching materials.
- Authors may
have been published by other presses and are seeking a new publisher
for new, completed works or new editions of previously published works
related to American Sign Language or American Deaf
culture.
We do not currently
accept: - Unsolicited manuscripts
- Abstracts or unfinished/partially finished work
- Works of fiction, poetry, memoirs, novels,
autobiographies, biographies, plays, or dissertations
- Novelty items (games, dolls, I-L-Y merchandise,
clothing, toys)
- Children's products
(DawnSignPress is developing an extensive line of children's products
in-house)
- Products focusing on signed languages other than
ASL
Other publishers may
specialize in certain areas such as children's books, poetry,
non-fiction, fiction, memoirs, and drama. The following links to sites
about writing and how to get into print may help you learn more about
the business side of publishing: www.writersdigest.comwww.writersmarket.comwww.writersonlineworkshops.comWe
admire writers and wish we could publish more than the five to six new
titles we release each year.
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