Getting Published: A Companion for the Humanities and Social Sciences

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ISBN: 9788791114762 | 8791114764
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/31/2009

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The biggest hurdle for junior scholars looking to embark on an academic career is to make the transition from PhD candidate to that first (ideally tenured) job. An imperative part of this process is getting published and yet - increasingly - this is becoming something harder to achieve.

Preface	p. vii
What this book will do for you
What's in a name?
A clear focus means clear advice
Have you got what it takes?
About the authors
Beyond the book
Acknowledgements
Behind the scenes	p. 1
The people inside the publishing house
The people outside the publishing house
Producing the physical books
Bringing the books to customers
The state of the book industry
The book industry and you, the author
Planning your book	p. 20
Understanding needs and desires
Success is not one thing
Questions to ask yourself
Which market?
Clarifying your focus
Mapping the book
Choosing a great title
In celebration of odd titles
Annotating and evaluating the table of contents
From thesis to book	p. 39
The pressures of junior scholarship
Why is a thesis not a book?
What to do with your thesis
Assessing your material
Getting started
Things you will need to cut
Things you will need to add
Producing a shorter (or collected) work	p. 53
Why write articles?
Reworking (or recycling) material
But is this what you really want?
Planning and writing your article
Finding the right journal
Getting your article published
Contributing a chapter to an edited volume
Editing a multi-author volume
Writing your book	p. 69
Language
Which language?
Style
Cutting the fog
Presentation
Permissions and the use of copyright material
The writing experience
Survival tips for blocked writers
Finding the right publisher	p. 86
Identifying the candidates
Connections, connections
Approaching the publisher
What if a publisher contacts you?
How to be concise
Proposal etiquette
The importance of the pitch
Waiting on tenterhooks
Where now?
Getting accepted	p. 106
Preparing and sending the text
External assessment
Typical peer review questions
New forms of peer review
Internal assessments and recommendations
Financial projections
Sources of income
Price and profitability
Decision time
Negotiating a contract	p. 122
Kinds of rights
Open Access and Creative Commons
Set in stone or open to negotiation?
Before you sign
Working towards publication	p. 135
Enter the production manager
Finalizing your manuscript
From disk to bookshelf
The editing process
Designing and typesetting your book
Backroom or Bangalore?
Producing camera-ready copy
Proofing
Indexing
Printing, binding and delivery
Promoting your book	p. 155
What is academic book marketing?
Everyday life in the marketing department
The importance of the author in promoting books
What you can do before publication
What you can do after publication
Promotional DOs and DON'Ts
Going it alone	p. 171
Making the decision
Deciding on format
Doing the work
Finding a partner
Promoting and distributing your book
Measures of success
Epilogue	p. 185
Publishing revolutions
Electronic formats
E-book readers
POD and the bookshop as content kiosk
Free Internet repositories
The content revolution
Bite-sized scholarship
Creative marketing
The book is dead, long live the book
Top tips	p. 194
Practical style and presentation issues	p. 196
Spelling and grammar
Document formatting
Front matters
Layout and punctuation
Quotations, notes, citations, etc.
Non-text elements
Graphic images and their formats
Other technical issues
Common editing and proof-reading marks	p. 211
Compendium of publishing terms	p. 213
Further reading	p. 259
Index	p. 263
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