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Publishing Markets Part I
ight, it’s going to be beneficial, before you go too far down the line of pitching to publishers, to learn a bit more of the basics about types of publishers, their imprints or departments, markets and...
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Publishing Markets Part II
or the last post we looked very generally at the main areas of publishing. So now we can move onto analysing the specific focus of different academic publishers and the easiest way to do that is by...
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The BubbleCow Guide to Academic Book Pitching: Part I
This is the first in a guest series by Gary Smailes of BubbleCow. At BubbleCow we work with writers on a daily basis to help prepare their books for submission to publishers and agents. As part of...
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The BubbleCow Guide to Academic Book Pitching: Part IV
Well, there are just a few instalments left of BubbleCow’s nifty guide to pitching your academic book, but there’s still work to be done. We have already looked at your query letter and synopsis, so...
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A Couple of Rules for Getting a Book Deal
stumbled across this great post: The Five Rules of Getting a Book Deal by writer Jean Hannah Edelstein and really liked it. It’s not primarily for academic writers, but rules two and three really got...
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We Ask Martin Paul Eve: Do We Need to Rethink Academic Publishing?
In his Guardian article, George Monbiot makes an excellent case against the existing academic publishing industry. Knowing that Martin Paul Eve would have much to say, we asked if he’d like to address...
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We Ask Ken Wissoker: Do We Need to Rethink Academic Publishing?
Image from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pumpkincat210/with/3416918382/ Continuing to gather responses to the Guardian article by George Monbiot on the broken model of academic publishing, we asked Ken...
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Josie Dixon – From Planet PhD to Destination Publication: A Traveller’s...
This post is the first in a series by Josie Dixon, a consultant with 15 years’ experience in academic publishing, as Senior Commissioning Editor at Cambridge University Press and Publishing Director...
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Part 1: A Primer on Open Access Publishing by Jason Colditz
This post is the first in a series by Jason Colditz, who spends his days at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a full-time Research Coordinator (Department of Psychiatry), Teaching Assistant for the...
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Writing a book proposal part II – the market section & avoiding dissertation...
In this series of posts, Astrid Bracke writes about the process of moving from disseration to book. She has a PhD in ecocriticism and contemporary British fiction and teaches English literature at the...
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