Service for Authors

How to offer a manuscript?

• Getting in contact
• Structure of an outline or a manuscript
• Evaluation of the project in the publishing house
• Author's presentation and contract

Getting in contact

The Editorial Office is an author's first contact point if he/she wants to offer an outline or a manuscript. You should not, however, send a book proposal without contacting the Editorial Office first. A telephone call or an e-mail can quickly clarify if the submission of a proposal makes sense at all.

Postal address for outlines and manuscripts:

Meyer & Meyer Sports

Editorial Department

Von-Coels-Str. 390

52080 Aachen

Germany

Structure of an outline or a manuscript

To evaluate a project it is necessary for us to have a meaningful outline, or maybe even a complete manuscript.

Structure of an outline

• Description of the book project
• Table of contents
• Text sample

Structure of a manuscript

• Title suggestion
• Table of contents (important!)
• Positions of illustrations (if any)

Additionally the following elements are required

• Author's address
• Author's profile (especially background relevant for the manuscript)
• Details about the possible target group
• Technical data (number of pages intended, number of images, photos etc.)

Evaluation of the project in the publishing house

After the submission of a project, the proposal will be examined by the Editorial Office and then sent to an international expert for a report. On the basis of this report the Editorial Office will discuss the project's possible inclusion in the book program with the management and the marketing department. After that, the author(s) will be informed accordingly. The duration of the evaluation period obviously depends on the nature and scope of the project, but also on the availability of suitable editors at the respective moment. The evaluation period for English titles is, due to the international conception, usually longer than that for German projects. A period of at least 6 weeks has to be expected.

Author's presentation and contract

For German projects, after an affirmative decision of the publishing house, the author is usually invited to present himself and his project personally. There, the basic conditions for a future collaboration (position of the book in the publishing house's programme, time schedules etc.) and the terms for a contract will be discussed. This is of course difficult for international authors. Therefore the details for contracts and collaborations are usually worked out by e-mail/fax/phone. In some cases we also try to combine a business trip to a place near the author with a meeting or we meet an author at the annual book fair, in Frankfurt, New York or London.