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by wdb
1890 days ago
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Typically the book proposal discusses the target audience, why you are the right person to write about the book, how it differs from other books on the subject, why the subject makes sense to write about (e.g. popular subject or technology) One of the things I am looking in when I get book proposals for review |
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Is that a request to see your credentials in paper form? I believe I could write books that would make Rudin's analysis books or CLRS' algo book more accessible[0] to a lay person without losing rigor. But I lack a PhD certificate in either math or compsci. Can I simply write a sample chapter and send it to their (say, Manning) technical team for evaluation?
[0] For example, just the act of stepping through/expanding the given algos/functions in the style of Scheme/Discrete math textbooks would already make CLRS more approachable, not to mention breaking down the existing math into maximally explicit bits.