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Your proposal
Whether you want to write a full-length book or a short booklet, your book proposal defines
the goals for your project and should be detailed enough to help you structure and write your manuscript. Your
proposal needs to reflect your thorough planning of the topics and the types of information that you want to present. Because your proposal will be
reviewed by a team of experts in the field, it's important that you present it in such a way that others understand it and see its
potential as clearly as you do.
A complete proposal includes these items:
The answers you give to our questions about you and your book idea help the review team evaluate your proposal accurately and thoroughly. Please contact us at saspress@sas.com for a Microsoft Word version of the questionnaire. You can return your questionnaire via email, mail, or fax to 919-677-4444, Attention: SAS Press.
You must include a signed copy of the Information Release Agreement with your proposal. We cannot evaluate your book proposal until we receive a signed Information Release Agreement. A representative of SAS Institute will also sign the Agreement, and a copy is returned to you.
The reviewers of your proposal will use your outline to understand the content of your proposed book. For this reason,
your outline needs to be as complete and as detailed as possible. In your outline, please:
- divide your book topic into chapters
- provide a summary of the content of each chapter
- include the main headings and subheadings for each chapter
Please include a copy of your current resume.
Before you submit your proposal and outline, discuss with your acquisitions editor your preferred software package. We can offer suggestions to make the writing phase easier for you. We provide you with guidelines on how to set up both text and graphics files.
Please send your proposal to:
Acquisitions Editor
SAS Publishing
SAS Press
SAS Campus Drive
Cary, NC 27513