Handbook for Academic Authors"In an ideal world, people would write only when they had something important to say. Discovery or inspiration would be the driving force. In the real world, though, this is only one of several worthy motives. Academic authors do write for the pure joy of communicating ideas, but they also write for tenure, money, and fame." Whatever your motive for writing, Handbook for Academic Authors will help you achieve your goal. Contents 1. The Publishing Partnership Publishing What You Write The Scholar’s Bookshelf The Publishing Partnership 2. Journal Articles Writing Well Selecting a Journal Preparing the Manuscript Refereeing You’ve Got Mail Revising Oral Presentations Money Electronic Journals Book Reviews 3. Revising a Dissertation The Differences between a Thesis and a Book Deciding What to Do The Thesis-Book Continuum Mining for Articles 4. Finding a Publisher for the Scholarly Book Types of Book Publishers Choosing a Publisher Agents and Editorial Consultants Submitting the Manuscript Refereeing Getting a Prompt Answer Revisions 5. Working with Your Publisher The Contract Subventions Seeking Grants Working with an Editor Manuscript to Bound Book The Ad in the New York Times After Publication 6. Multiauthor Books and Anthologies Collections of Original Essays Anthologies and Readers 7. Finding a Publisher for the College Textbook The College Textbook Choosing a Publisher 8. Working with Your Textbook Publisher Writing a Textbook Reviews and Rewriting Working with Your Editors Teacher’s Manuals and Study Guides Revised Editions 9. Books for General Readers Economic Realism Finding a Literary Agent Writing for General Readers Finding a Publisher for the Trade Book Editing and Design Marketing Are You Ready for This? 10. The Mechanics of Authorship Manuscript Preparation Illustrations Permissions Proofreading Indexing 11. Costs and Prices Costs Prices Why Prices Vary Subtracting Paper and Ink Paperback and Reprint Editions Textbooks Trade Books Financial Partnership 12. Electronic Publishing Electronic Journals Electronic Reference Works Electronic Instructional Materials E-Books Thinking Big Annotated Bibliography From the reviews: "Put this book into the hands of most of the young writers you know. It is neither pedantic nor patronizing. It will help them think better about writing and publishing. It could be read with profit by all academics." --Council of Biology Editors Views "Beth Luey has written the kind of basic text you might think has been around for years. Well it hasn’t been, and now it finally is. The text is sensible and fair to all parties involved in academic publishing. Her book is especially noteworthy for disabusing authors of unrealistic expectations, while recalling to scholarly publishers their obligations to their authors no less than to the bottom line." --Irving Louis Horowitz, Rutgers University "...should be required reading for scholar/ --Scholarly Publishing "Anyone from a graduate student to the still hyperkinetic producer (of textbooks or monographs or in between) can learn from this straightforward, sober, thorough, orderly, and practical guide, reinforced by classified, annotated, and evaluative bibliography." --American Literature "This practical, informal and knowledgeable handbook is a fine guide to the highways and byways of academic publishing. It should be of considerable value to prospective authors." --Lewis A. Coser, State University of New York at Stony Brook |
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