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Acquistion

Acquistion

How books become books

Anne Trubek
Apr 29, 2021
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I put out feelers the other day asking if people had ‘nuts and bolts’ requests for this week’s newsletter; that’s how I started with this whole Notes from a Small Press thing, after all, just explaining basic publishing processes as I knew and was learning them. Someone mentioned acquisition, a topic I am perennially drafting posts about, but never ultimately sending. So I started writing that post, only to have half of it magically delete, not saved anywhere (shakes fist at the now sullied Substack). Acquisition, cursed! And yet here I am again, and I think I will finally successfully write up how many of Belt’s books are acquired, and return us to the whole transparency-aids-access thing that animated the first years of this newsletter (and the book it spawned).

Caveat: I suspect our methods are more outlier than typical.

We receive fewer unsolicited proposals than one might expect, and I think that has largely to do with three factors: 1.) we don’t (yet) publish fiction or poe…

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