Back in the old days, a prospective academic author could submit a manuscript —sometimes even a barely reworked dissertation — and book editors would consider it for publication. Now, even if you’ve ...

If you want to publish a book, the first thing you’ll need to do is to put together a book proposal. Follow these 4 steps to craft one publishers will love. Most executives, however, are hoping to ...

After a lengthy hiatus caused by other obligations, I am back with the third installment in my series of posts about how how to publish an academic book. In Part I, I summarized the criteria that can ...

I'm in the thick of it every day: writing, reviewing or advising on proposals. Just recently, a proposal of ours swung open the doors to a leading Nigerian bank partnership. It’s these real-life ...

As a former acquisitions editor at a publishing company, I well remember the ritual wherein executives gathered in a conference room armed with their tabbed notebooks. Once a month, department leaders ...

A few months ago, I polled my Twitter followers to ask what factor most held them back from submitting their book proposal to an academic publisher. Some said a lack of knowledge about the process, ...