Contents -- Foreword -- 1 An Introduction of Sorts -- 2 "What Do You Have -- Why Should I Care?" Asks Your Potential Publisher -- 3 Making Contact -- 4 Market Test: The Second- Best Answer Is No -- 5 Creating the Proposal -- 6 Trying to Hold on to Control -- 7 You've Finished the Manuscript - Now What? -- 8 Helping Your Publisher to Help You -- 9 Going Your Own Way - Nontraditional Approaches to Being Published, or "Publisher? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Publisher"1 -- Appendix - Does This Describe You? -- Index -- About the Author, Illustrator, and Editor.