Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) - Softcover

Germano, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226288447 ISBN 13: 9780226288444

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2001

Synopsis

Writers and publishers depend on one another, but it often seems as if they speak two different languages. Getting It Published is a lively, insider's guide to academic publishing—a book that will tell you not only how publishing works, but how you can make it work for you. Written by a veteran editor with experience in both the university press and commercial worlds, the book fields the big questions in a scholar's life. Why do editors choose some books and decline others? How does a writer decide where to submit a project? How does the review process work, and why is it necessary? What can an author expect from a publishing house—before, during, and after publication? William Germano answers these questions and more, and along the way, offers encouragement, tips, and warnings.

This savvy guide unravels the mysteries of publishing and walks you through the process from start to finish. You'll learn how to think about your book before you submit it and what you need to know about your contract. With wit and humor, Germano also addresses some of the finer points of publishing etiquette, including how—and how not—to approach a busy editor and how to work with other publishing professionals on matters of design, marketing, and publicity. Graduate students, recent Ph.D.'s, and experienced authors alike will appreciate the chapters on "Quotations, Pictures, and Other Headaches" and on compiling and editing collections and anthologies.

"Scholarly publishing is a big, noisy, conversation about the ideas that shape our world," Germano writes, "Here's how to make your book part of that conversation."

About this title

About the Author:

William Germano is dean of the faculty of humanities and social sciences and professor of English literature at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Previously, he served as editor in chief at Columbia University Press and vice president and publishing director at Routledge.

From Booklist:

A former editorial director at Columbia University Press, now publishing director at Routledge, Germano has made a short, sharp, and probably indispensable book for anyone who is hoping to publish a serious nonfiction work. He deconstructs and demystifies what publishers and editors actually do and what authors should look for in finding the right house for their subject and in putting the right words in their contract. He also does a lot of hand-holding through the review process and the production of the manuscript. He is very kind but allows his impish sense of humor free reign, particularly in the glosses that appear in the margins (in a different font). He includes a brief but useful bibliography and, even better, lists "five books to keep at your elbow while you write"--worth the price of admission right there for almost any writer of anything. GraceAnne DeCandido
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About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0226288447
• ISBN 13: 9780226288444
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192