Providing a guide to academic authors with a manuscript in hand, this book explains the book publishing process step-by-step and provides examples of the actual experiences (good and bad) of academic authors.
Chapters in the book are entitled:
(1) It Doesn't Have to Be This Way; (2) Agents: Can't Live with'Em, Can't Live without'Em; (3) Collaboration: Do You Want to Do It Alone, or with Someone Else?; (4) Preparing Proposals; (5) Peer Review: A Long Walk on a Short One?; (6) Advances: It's What's Up Front That Counts; (7) Royalties: The King and Queenmakers; (8) Subventions: You Don't Pay, You Don't Play; (9) Copyright (Right) and Work for Hire (Wrong); (10) Indexes and Other Dangers; (11) Subsidiary Rights: The Biggest Part is Underwater; (12) Dealing with Editors and Other Strangers; (13) Will It Be in Bookstores? Will Anyone Know It's There?; (14) Reprints and Remainderings: There Is Life after Termination; (15) Was It Good for You Too? Do You Want to Do It again? With the Same Publisher?; (16) Don't Fight: Grieve, Arbitrate, or Mediate; and (17) Never Give Up: Publish without Perishing. Appendixes providing National Writers Union information and listbuilding areas of university presses are attached. (RS)