Writing and Publishing Your Book: A Guide for Experts in Every Field

by Melody Herr Ph.D.

Overview

Are you ready to write your book? Partner with an experienced publisher, writing coach, and author and find out how to turban your research and scholarship into a book.

This book is the next-best-thing to a personal writing coach. Drawing upon her own extensive experience as an author and publisher, Melody Herr guides the reader through every step of the writing and publishing process: constructing a table of contents, preparing a proposal, finding a publisher, negotiating a contract, drafting the manuscript, and marketing the finished product. Throughout, she offers proven strategies for producing a book that highlights its author's authoritative knowledge and writing skills.

Unique among writing guides, Writing and Publishing Your Book: A Guide for Experts in Every Field acknowledges the reader's own expertise; speaks to researchers and scholars across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities; and provides information and guidance that will benefit junior authors as well as their more senior colleagues. By following these practical, step-by-step instructions, new authors will more easily liberate their own creativity while avoiding the many pitfalls that mire new writers, thereby maintaining momentum for a successful publication.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440859021
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/12/2017
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Melody Herr is a writer who spent more than 16 years in scholarly publishing and acquired more than 250 books for several publishers, including Johns Hopkins University Press and the University of Michigan Press.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Introducing the Expert vii

1 Developing Your Project: The Criteria for a Book 1

2 Designing Your Book: The Initial Structure 7

3 Writing Your Proposal: The Expert's Portfolio 17

4 Investigating Your Publishing Options: The Search for a Partner 31

5 Launching Your Charm Offensive: Proposal Submission and Peer Review 45

6 Understanding Your Publishing Contract: The Author-Publisher Partnership 57

7 Drafting Your Manuscript: Performance and Presentation 69

8 Presenting Your Evidence: Quotations, Images, Tables, and Graphs 81

9 Preparing Your Final Manuscript: The Components of a Book 101

10 Publishing and Marketing Your Book: A Member of the Team 113

Conclusion: Giving Back 125

References 127

Index 133