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A best-seller!
If you're not already famous, haven't got a manuscript yet, and don't have a spectacular idea and a pushy agent, is a publisher likely to want to publish your book?
Probably not.
A publisher finances the writing, editing, design, production, publicity, marketing and distribution of a book. However expertly this long process is conducted, it will nearly always be an expensive gamble. Publishers take a hard-headed view of commercial potential.
They are sometimes wrong.
But it's unlikely that if you propose your idea to every publisher, and they all say no, they're all wrong. If you already have interested a publisher, it is certainly worth talking to me.
I write for academics and 'experts', as well as for people who simply have an extraordinary story to tell, and the resulting books have sold thousands of copies. You can find them in your local library. But this kind of ghost-writing is not quite the same as a memoir.
A commercially published book is a creative endeavour designed to interest a diverse audience. The subject matter's immaterial - if it's written well the personality of the author will emerge strongly and almost any story will have dramatic impact.
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