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Getting it published : a guide for scholars and anyone else serious about serious books / William Germano.

By:

Germano, William P, 1950

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishingPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016Edition: 3rd editionDescription: xiii, 253 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780226281407 (pbk. : alk. paper)
022628140X (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

070.5/2 23

LOC classification:

PN 161 G373g 2016

Contents:

Introduction -- What do publishers do? -- Writing the manuscript -- Selecting a publisher -- Your proposal -- What editors look for -- Surviving the review process -- What a contract means -- Collections and anthologies -- Quotations, pictures, and other headaches -- How to deliver a manuscript -- And then what happens to it -- The via electronica -- This book -- and the next -- Afterword: promoting your work.

Summary: "A version of chapter 5, "Your Proposal," appeared in the October 2000 issue of PMLA and appears here, with alterations, by permission of the Modern Language Association."

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"A version of chapter 5, "Your Proposal," appeared in the October 2000 issue of PMLA and appears here, with alterations, by permission of the Modern Language Association."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-244) and index.

Introduction --
What do publishers do? --
Writing the manuscript --
Selecting a publisher --
Your proposal --
What editors look for --
Surviving the review process --
What a contract means --
Collections and anthologies --
Quotations, pictures, and other headaches --
How to deliver a manuscript --
And then what happens to it --
The via electronica --
This book --
and the next --
Afterword: promoting your work.

"A version of chapter 5, "Your Proposal," appeared in the October 2000 issue of PMLA and appears here, with alterations, by permission of the Modern Language Association."

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