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Getting It Published : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : On Writing, Editing, and Publishing The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Jacques Barzun Ethnography Luke Eric Lassiter Telling About Society Howard S. Becker How to Write a BA Thesis Charles Lipson Tricks of the Trade Howard S. Becker Cite Right Charles Lipson Writing for Social Scientists Howard S. Becker The Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers Permissions, A Survival Guide: Blunt Talk Jane E. Miller about Art as Intellectual Property Susan M. Bielstein The Chicago Guide to Writing about Multivariate Analysis The Craft of Translation Jane E. Miller John Biguenet & Rainer Schulte, editors Mapping It Out The Craft of Research Mark Monmonier Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, & Joseph M. Williams The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science Glossary of Typesetting Terms Scott L. Montgomery Richard Eckersley, Richard Angstadt, Charles M. Ellerston, Richard Hendel, Indexing Books Naomi B. Pascal, & Anita Walker Scott Nancy C. Mulvany Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes Getting into Print Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, Walter W. Powell & Linda L. Shaw A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Legal Writing in Plain English Theses, and Dissertations Bryan A. Garner Kate L. Turabian From Dissertation to Book Tales of the Field William Germano John Van Maanen Getting It Published Style William Germano Joseph M. Williams A Poet’s Guide to Poetry A Handbook of Biological Illustration Mary Kinzie Frances W. Zweifel : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Getting It Published A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books second edition : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : William Germano the university of chicago press :: chicago & london 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. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2001, 2008 by William Germano All rights reserved. Published 2008 Printed in the United States of America 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 1 2 3 4 5 isbn- 13: 978- 0- 226- 28852- 9 (cloth) isbn- 13: 978- 0- 226- 28853- 6 (paper) isbn- 10: 0- 226- 28852- 8 (cloth) isbn- 10: 0- 226- 28853- 6 (paper) A version of chapter 5 appeared in the October 2000 issue of PMLA and appears here, with some alterations, by permission of the Modern Language Association. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Germano, William P. Getting it published : a guide for scholars and anyone else serious about serious books / William Germano. — 2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn- 13: 978- 0- 226- 28852- 9 (alk. paper) isbn- 13: 978- 0- 226- 28853- 6 (pbk.: alk. paper) isbn- 10: 0- 226- 28852- 8 (alk. paper) isbn- 10: 0- 226- 28853- 6 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Authorship—Marketing. I. Title. pn161.g46 2008 070.5'2—dc22 2008020562 o The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48–1992. for diane, who lives with books, and christian, who has them all before him Contents : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Preface to the Second Edition ix Acknowledgments xiii 1 : Introduction 1 2 : What Do Publishers Do? 5 3 : Writing the Manuscript 29 4 : Selecting a Publisher 42 5 : Your Proposal 57 6 : What Editors Look For 70 7 : Surviving the Review Process 78 8 : What a Contract Means 94 9 : Collections and Anthologies 117 10 : Quotations, Pictures, and Other Headaches 139 11 : How to Deliver a Manuscript 155 12 : And Then What Happens to It 166 13 : The Via Electronica 179 14 : This Book — And the Next 195 Afterword: Promoting Your Work 203 For Further Reading 209 Index 211 Preface to the Second Edition : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Writers and publishers depend upon one another, but it often seems as if they don’t speak the same language. In the decade since this book was conceived the disconnect between writers and publishers remains a signifi cant issue in the academic community. Getting It Published is a book about scholarly publishing written for authors. The fi rst edition was written by an editor. The second edition is written by a former editor of scholarly books—one who sometimes feels like a recovering editor— whose current profession is professor and academic dean. Deans and editors, I discovered, both have to nurture big-p icture judgments, make quick decisions, and live by them. Both live lives shaped by the world of scholars. In the years since Getting It Published, and later From Dis- sertation to Book, appeared in print, my work with academic authors has continued in dozens of faculty development workshops across North America, in Europe, and in New Zealand. Each is a chance to teach, which is a chance to learn. I’ve kept the word “serious” in the subtitle of this book. I’m less wor- ried now than I was then that the gesture might be misinterpreted. No cat calendars or pop star biographies here—just the books on which scholars depend every day of their lives. Why aren’t we as serious about writing as we are about getting pub- lished? Visit your campus bookstore or any surviving independents. Or browse the writing and publishing section at Barnes & Noble or Borders. The shelves are crammed with guides for writers. All fall into a predict- able pattern: how to write your book (general, fi ction, screenplay, mur- der mystery); how to write well (Strunk and White, as well as longer, college- style handbooks); how to publish what it is you’ve written well (books on fi nding publishers and editors and agents, mainly for trade books). What’s missing is a book to help graduate students, professors, and independent scholars, in other words, serious writers, for whom publishing—and a special kind of publishing—is essential. During an almost thirty- year career in scholarly publishing I worked

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Since 2001 William Germano’s Getting It Published has helped thousands of scholars develop a compelling book proposal, find the right academic publisher, evaluate a contract, handle the review process, and, finally, emerge as published authors.But a lot has changed in the past seven years. With th
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