Giving prescriptive advice about scholarly-book proposals can be tricky, because there truly isn’t one right way to craft a great pitch. Acquiring editors are, above all, interested in creative ideas ...

What do you want to achieve and who can help you to do that? Think about the audience you are trying to reach, how you usually find and read information and whether you have any significant external ...

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, ...