Re. Finding a publisher

[Geoff Hart <geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA>]

     After labors that make the tasks of Hercules seem akin to the
     strivings of an armchair athlete on a Stairmaster (TM), I've finally
     finished the first draft of my book on information design. Now comes
     the Odyssey of peer review, efforts to introduce my Trojan horse into
     the walled city of the publishers, and an Olympian entry into the
     marketplace.  <---warning: attempt at campy humor!

     On a more serious note, I _am_ looking for a good publisher that I can
     start to discuss the book with. I'm aiming the book at the college
     market as an introductory textbook, but it's the sort of thing I'd
     love to see on the writer/editor's shelf next to Roger Parks, William
     Horton and Edward Tufte. (Mind you, if they'll sell it beside Steven
     King and Danielle Steele, in comparable quantities, I won't quibble...
     though I confess it lacks somewhat in the plot department, and
     character development is nigh unto nil, making its prospects as a
     trash paperback somewhat dim.) I can't think of any group more
     qualified to point me in the right direction to finding a good
     publisher... Writer's Market offers a distressingly long list of
     likely candidates, and I can come up with a dozen likely possibilities
     off the top of my head.

     Help! But please reply directly to me rather than to the list, unless
     you can justify discussing this sort of issue at length on the list.
     Herman, I know you're out there and have published, so please drop me
     a line! Thanks in advance!

     --Geoff Hart     #8^{)} <--- or should I replace the 8 with $?
     geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca

     Disclaimer: If I didn't commit it in print in one of
     our reports, it don't represent FERIC's opinion.