Monday, August 4, 2008 - 12:10 PM

What you need to know about developing scholarly books

Christie Henry, University of Chicago Press

Once you've decided on a species of book to write, and publisher, how
does that book proposal morph into printed book form?   Editor Christie Henry
will disentangle the food-web like process at university presses, outlining priorities and guidelines for peer and Board review, manuscript preparation, illustration creation, typesetting and printing , and schedules.  With a focus on multi-authored volumes, the details will be applicable to specialized books in the sciences.