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book titles in development - overviewWe are working on many exciting ideas for future books in the Ultimate series and will post more information about additional new titles in development as they are scheduled.
Proposed Titles We have a long list of titles that may be of interest to readers. Proposed titles require market research after which we seek feedback from retailers on what they will support.
Titles with Deadlines Pending When a proposed title gets the green light, we open it to writers and photographers and set a deadline for submission of material. Our Format Guidelines page has important information to review before sending work. Due to the volume of material we receive, anything that doesn’t conform to those guidelines will not be reviewed. Our editors do not wait for the deadline to begin working with submissions. We receive thousands of photos and stories for a book so we start reading and evaluating content immediately. By the time a deadline arrives our editors often have the majority of the content screened and have been working with contributors on editorial queries and ideas for story or photo development. Please don’t procrastinate. Get your work in sooner rather than later for our editors to review.
Titles with Deadlines Closed When a deadline passes we close the title to submissions and our story and photo editors begin the process of selecting approximately 50−65 stories and 35-40 photos from the pool of submissions received. We call these our “finalists.” Finalists are notified and sent publishing agreements. A signed publishing agreement is required before work can continue to be considered for publication. The Book Titles in Development pages will be updated to reflect the progress on and status of a book title as new information becomes available. If you see “finalists notified” on a title for which you submitted work and we did not contact you, we're sorry but your submission is no longer under consideration. Many beautifully-crafted stories and photos do not get published. Our editors must weigh many variables when selecting material for publication; the balance of content overall, how material fits and flows together, and redundancy in themes or plots. Our not selecting your material for publication reflects those variables and is not a reflection of the quality of your work. We encourage you to continue submitting material for books appropriate for your work regardless of the outcome of a particular submission you’ve made.
Finalists for Publication A manuscript containing all of the finalists' work is submitted to our publisher for approval. At that point we begin working with page counts and sample layouts to determine the final 35-45 stories and 70-90 photos that will actually be published. We notify all finalists of whether they will or will not be published in the book.
Schedules and Dates Check this website first when you have a question about the status or schedule for a book. Dates can change. Many things that influence the schedule are beyond our control, but we will always do our best to meet the dates posted.
Staying in Contact It could be several weeks, if not months, before we need to reach you concerning your submission. Once you register as a user there will be links available to keep us informed of changes in your contact information.
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THE AUTHORS
The Ultimate Runner Amy Hunold-VanGundy and Tom Green . . .
Amy and Tom are ordinary runners who created Runners' Lounge™ , for runners to meet others, to build running communities, and to talk about what consistently, predictably works for runners. Amy is long-time runner who enjoys races of all distances, always doing her part to champion the back-of-the-pack runners. She has completed marathons, triathlons, duathlons, and prefers the half-marathon distance. Tom runs consistently and races occasionally, but always makes time for one of his favorite races, The Chicago Marathon. By day Amy and Tom spend their professional career time working as Human Resources Consultants in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. Amy and Tom are both married, but to other people, with their families as top priorities. When they are not working, running, or hanging out at Runners' Lounge™ they spend their time in their ordinary communities, homes, and gardens, and kitchens.
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THE AUTHOR
The Ultimate Christian Living
Todd Outcalt. . .
Reverand Outcalt has been a United Methodist pastor for thirty years, and is the author of eighteen books. His previous Health Communications' titles are, The Best Things in Life Are Free and The Healing Touch. Todd lives in Brownsburg, Indiana with his wife of twenty-six years and their two children.  |
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THE AUTHORS
The Ultimate Bird Lover
Marty Becker, D.V.M., Gina Spadafori, and Mickkel Becker Shannon . . .
Marty Becker, D.V.M., is the regularly featured veterinarian on ABC-TV's Good Morning America, contributing pet-care writer for Parade magazine, and the host of "The Pet Doctor" on PBS. He also coauthors the award-winning weekly column on pets and their care, PetConnection, which appears in newspapers across the United States and Canada through the Universal Press Syndicate. Gina Spadafori coauthors PetConnection, an award-winning, nationally syndicated weekly column on pets and their care and is a contributing pet-care writer for Parade magazine. She is a bestselling author of several pet books including the New York Times bestseller Why Do Dogs Drink Out of the Toilet? and Birds for Dummies. Mikkel Becker Shannon has been a contributing author to Knight Ridder newspapers and has written for Cat Fancy Magazine and several Chicken Soup for the Soul books. She is the children's education coordinator for the Whitman County Humane Society in Washington State.
Marty, Gina and Mikkel are also coauthors of three of our bestselling titles in the Ultimate series; The Ultimate Dog Lover, The Ultimate Cat Lover and The Ultimate Horse Lover. |
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