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The number of subsidy contracts varies across the imprints. About one in ten of the titles on the list have a subsidy from the author, directed either towards more editorial or marketing work than we can normally provide. Depending on how many we think it could sell, we offer varying levels of contract. We only offer to publish if we like the book.

The reports assess both the quality of the book and its 'marketability'. Our readers are experienced, knowledgeable about the market, and usually authors themselves. Each Proposal gets a number of in-house reader reports, visible to the author. Authors that make it through that are asked to fill in a full Proposal. This alchemic mix of author and subject is what makes our list so unique and successful. We want authors with talent, who are ambitious, committed to working with us to promote their books and know how to connect with their community. We are looking for books that will inspire, inform and illuminate the lives of readers - with subjects that push the boundaries, are unusual or definitive (maybe even both), delve into new areas of popular subjects, and could never be classed as generic.

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