Nasw press seeks proposals for pocket guides and study guides including, but not limited to, the areas of credentialing, licensing, and other standardized exams. The proposal, the first book in mary baloghs new series, the survivors club, is the story of gwendoline, lady muir, whom we first met in one night for love, which was published in 1999. Melbourne university press, the miegunyah press, and custom books. We ask that you please complete it as fully as possible. Please complete the eight section proposal form below and submit it via email along with the following as separate attachments.
At first i thought maybe this was the documentary writer being neutral, or kind. To work with a traditional publisher, you are in effect asking them to invest a lot of money into your book. Gwen is a loving sister, daughter, cousin, aunt, friend, and all of baloghs readers have come to appreciate her. When you selfpublish, you dont need to write a book proposal. The purpose of a book proposal is to capture a publishing editors interest so that he or she will agree to publish your book. Stobbe literary agency has been sold to the steve laube agency, so les no longer accepts proposal submissions. The new press is a nonprofit publicinterest book publisher. Most magazines do not want to see a complete manuscript when you first contact them. Nun abuse remains little talked about in the church. Proposals for publishing a book with newsouth publishing will need to fit our current nonfiction publishing program. For many people, submitting a nonfiction book proposal can be a daunting task. Please provide a full cv for each author or editor giving details of all. When approaching a magazine with a proposal for an article, it is critical that the writer follow the guidelines stated by the publisher.
We request that you not submit your complete manuscript unless an editor has invited you to do so. In addition to knowing about the sisters of perpetual indulgence for longer than i can remember, ive been fascinated for decades by their repurposing of religious symbolism. A certain commissioning editor at a wellknown press has asked to see my book proposal, and i just need to confirm to her that you would not be. The news services picked up the report of the banning of the nuns book, and in tallahassee, barbara grier, the president of the 12yearold naiad press, was delighted at all the telephone calls. You all know that the book proposal is the cornerstone to a successful tenure track career in most areas of the humanities and social sciences. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become estranged from worlds they critiqueoften by naming and calling attention to problems. Thank you for considering submitting your proposal to melbourne university publishing. If you spend some time searching for tips, the process might get even more confusing, as you run. The editor will assess the strengths of your proposal and how well it. Tell us how you see this book fitting into our list, what age it is for particularly if it is a childrens book and how it is different from similarcompeting titles that have already been published by us or any other press.
While our program is broad, we are not currently accepting submissions for new textbooks, personal memoirs or books based on family history research. Indeed, my publishing experience with outskirts press has been rewarding and positive. The idea of a cloistered life strikes some as one of severity and silence, of running away from a broken heart or a broken life. Our small staff receives hundreds of submissions each season though we publish only fifteen books a year. This is the top selling book internationally on the medjugorje apparitions. Newsouth publishing is the publishing arm of unsw press. But i couldnt quite work out how to frame a book project on them from a religious studies lens until a member of the order took part in. Proposals for guide books must demonstrate a clear, strong potential for use and instruction. We publish an extensive range of academic books, with specialization in quality undergraduate and graduate level textbooks in the social sciences and humanities. Booksigning event set for july 22 at williamson county public library. Your gift will support the new press in continuing to leverage books for social change. Please do not submit your full manuscript unless requested. This form is to be used by individuals or groups wishing to propose titles to the history press for the publishers. The cause of great notoriety, astells proposal was imitated by defoe in his an academy for women, parodied in the tatler, satirized on.
For this reason, we ask all prospective authors to submit a completed nasw press book proposal packet word document. Our mission is to publish books that make a difference, books that get people talking and books that can change peoples minds. This form is intended to give us a clear idea of your project in a succinct manner. Please consult their guidelines available on their site before submitting. Grant to a usa author to support a book proposal on the subject of female artists share it. In living a feminist life sara ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Your proposal should include a cover letter that includes a narrative description 24 typescript pages of the proposed books content and scope and an argument for the books importance, as a rationale for publishing by the ohio university press. Select the appropriate editorial contact from the list on our website who will be experienced in your subject area. We encourage you to look carefully at our range of books and send us a wellprepared submission making reference to the points outlined below. How to write a nonfiction book proposal with template. Click here for guidelines for submitting a book proposal.
Weible is a former newspaper publisher and columnist. Please include as much information in your query letter as possible. Think of a book proposal as a business plan for your book. Former nun shares story in new memoir the tennessean. In a serious proposal to the ladies 169497, mary astell asks her readers the ringing question why shoud not we assert our liberty, and not suffer every trifler to impose a yoke of impertinent customs on us. Sofia richmond does turn up in an episode of nova, the doomsday asteroid, where the narrator describes her as a mystic. Thank you again for your interest in the feminist press. Thank you for your interest in oxford university press. You could contact us first for an informal chat by phone or via email about your project, how it could fit into our publication programme, and what service you can expect to receive. Jamia wilson has become both the youngest director in the 47year history of the press, and the first woman of color to head the organization.
Many of these experts are available to advise governments and provide comment to media. Writing a book proposal once you have an idea for a book, the next step is to begin work on a proposal. Whether you are a firsttime author hoping to publish a journal article, or someone with a book proposal on an area of academic study or professional development, we aim to offer the very best publishing experience. There are a few studies that have been conducted, including one in 1996 that reported that as many as 40 percent of catholic nuns in the united. Please read the information on each of these imprints to assess how your book might fit our program. Many of them started during the second wave of feminism. The two parts appear here together for the first time. And as much as we would like to help, we are not able to offer advice on writing a book proposal nor can we suggest other publishers for your work.
Unsw sydney has a directory of academic bushfire expertise and capability, stretching across fields as diverse as health, climate science, water, wildlife, economics and law. Please be sure that your proposal package includes all of the following information. Literary encyclopedia a serious proposal to the ladies. I know from your most helpful website that you suggest authors do not make multiple submissions. Lynne rienner publishers, celebrating 35 years of independent publishing, is known for its cuttingedge, high quality scholarly and academic books and journals in politics, social sciences, and the humanities. Book summary 12 paragraphs description of this book geared to the reader for potential use in catalog, back cover copy, and web description. The main activities of the company are book publishing, representation and distribution services, and retail bookselling on the unsw campus in kensington. Anticipating the conduct books rhetoric of improvement and indebted to seventeenthcentury philosophic debates on knowledge and learning, astells impassioned argument for womens education is one of the earliest feminist polemics. The book was followed by a serious proposal to the ladies part ii 1697, which offered rules for rational thought for women who were still unable to find a place of higher education. What were looking for in nonfiction book proposals. Mary astells serious proposal to the ladies, for the advancement of their true and greatest interest was published in 1694. The mystery of marriage published by outskirts press.
The focus of this list is not on publishers which market to women, but on publishers who have a stated commitment to publishing feminist and other womens studies texts. Mary astells a serious proposal to the ladies is one of the most important and neglected works advocating the establishment of womens academies. As a firsttime author, theres been much ive learned about getting a book published and i am glad outskirts press was recommended to me by an author friend who was published with outskirts press. In fact, the first thing that flashed through my mind when looking at their web page for potential authors was scam. Our titles are used primarily as texts in postsecondary courses, and are published under both our canadian scholars and womens press imprint. The message, has sold more than 500,000 copies in the u. Grant to a usa author to support a book proposal on the. To request an alternatively formatted text for a student with a print disability, please. But as toni greaves discovered when she visited a community of cloistered nuns in new jersey, it was a joyful embrace of a life that is in many ways countercultural given the mefirst society that lurks beyond the convents walls.
We will contact you as soon as we have had a chance to thoroughly examine your manuscript proposal. Not only would the micropress bring something new to the university, but it would allow students handson experience in a range of skills, including book design, editing, working with a client. Its reception was so controversial that astell responded with a lengthy sequel, also in this volume. Click here to read more about this transition please direct submissions to the appropriate agent at. Unsw press ltd, operating since 1962, is a notforprofit company whose board of directors is appointed by the council of unsw.
Project muse a serious proposal to the ladies, and. Click here to download catalogues of our most recent titles. If you are working on, or have completed, a manuscript that you think is suitable for nias press, we are very keen to hear from you. Anyway, webbased references to either sister marie gabriel or sofia richmond are surprisingly few, considering all the fuss. Arcadia publishing is an unusual kind of publishing company. We are pleased to begin discussions regarding publication of your proposed book. A bibliography 19622002 unsw press, 2002, for her work on the entries up to the end of 2002 in the bibliography that follows. New executive director, publisher at feminist press. In fact, i realized within a few minutes that i had read several books by arcadia publishing already. Although we generally commission the books we publish, occasionally we consider book proposals from other authors. When you submit the form, please attach as well your detailed table of contents with abstracts, sample chapters or completed manuscript, and current cv.
This is a list of publishers dedicated either wholly or to a significant degree to publishing material written for, by, or about women. Unsw press the university of new south wales press. Astells appeal is elucidated by her editor patricia springborg, who explains that freedom astell understands classically as the capacity to embrace a principle of. Proposals will need to fit our current nonfiction publishing program, which falls under three imprints. Please note that we are not accepting hardcopy submissions. Homeblogtags how to write an academic book proposal. The questions listed below are intended to help us gain as full an understanding as possible of your proposed book, and we appreciate your time in. Living a feminist life books gateway duke university press.
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