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		<title>How to Publish your First Academic Book</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, you submitted your PhD successfully and you received the coveted title. You also managed to get a part time teaching job, or a full time job for which you get paid only at a part time rate. Your ex supervisor, your friends, your relatives, your new colleagues, they all have very high expectations of you. They are looking forward to reading your first monograph. On the other hand, you are too aware of the difficulties of satisfying them. It is true that there are too many books out there. Everyone wants to be a published author! However, while the publishing houses are facing financial constraints, the publishers are becoming increasingly more selective. Only a small percentage of the books that have been written will be bound in a volume and will enter triumphantly in the libraries and the bookshops of the world. Yours will be one of them, if you follow the simple steps I will describe here. First of all, you need to chose your publisher carefully. University presses are best suited for your needs at this stage of your career. Check out who published your favourite books in your field in the past ten years. Common sense dictates that the publisher will be interested in producing another volume of the same topic and calibre. While in this process, avoid ALL vanity presses or presses that do not send the manuscript to external readers. These can only harm your future academic career! As a new and unknown author, you need to inspire trust to your publisher. The most effective way to do that is by asking one of your esteemed colleagues for his/her recommendation. Your ex supervisors and/ or the external examiners of your thesis are best suited for this role. They can talk to their own publishers or send to the press your unpublished thesis with the promise that extensive revisions will take place. If they are in no position to help, do not rush into sending your manuscript to the publisher. First of all, you need to build an excellent reputation by publishing several articles and an edited collection of papers. Once your edited book is in the libraries, it will be much easier for you to land a contract for your monograph. Since your recommendation letters are assured or your reputation has been strengthened, you should contact personally the publisher. Start from the top publishers in your field. Do not sell your work short! Even if you met the Acquisitions Editor at a conference, send a brief email stating the topic and giving professional information about you. The prospective publisher will be able to tell you whether (in principle) he is interested in producing such a volume or not. With this letter at hand you can go to future employers and apply for full time jobs. Then it will be time to put together the book proposal. Firstly, you should present the state of the art of your topic by describing briefly the books, which are in the market and their impact on the academic community. Your original contribution to the topic should follow immediately after. Make certain that the publisher, the readers and the general public understand the value of your book and how it will change the way we think about your topic. In addition, you would have to describe the content of the manuscript; so, write down the titles of the chapters and give a summary for each one of them. The publisher will also be interested in the his/her readership, so add a paragraph explaining who will read the volume and why. If you expect it to be used in university courses, by all means, mention it! Do not try to convince them that it addresses the needs of a general readership; rather insist at a targeted audience. Add also information about the length of the manuscript, the photographs and the maps that will be included. This way, the press can estimate the cost of the production. Throughout the proposal be clear, truthful and simple (not simplistic). Send also your cv and at least one chapter. Send the proposal to one press at the time. I know that you are stressed about the publication and that you would have preferred to send it to a multitude of publishers but I would still advise against it. Bear in mind that publishers occasionally, if not regularly, talk to each other and that sometimes readers are receiving proposals for more than one presses. While you are still in the fever of your search, do not forget that you have to revise your thesis and complete at least 2-3 chapters (if not the entire manuscript) in order to get the coveted contract. Keep in mind that you are writing for a wider audience and not for a committee. Make certain that the book is short, 250-300 pages, and extremely readable. Incorporate in your revisions the feedback you will receive from colleagues or readers (even if they rejected you). Be extremely patient, while you are waiting for the readers’ reports; it may take months before you receive firm answers. When they arrive, the press will offer you (hopefully) a contract and you will be on your way to becoming a published author! If, on the other hand, you book is rejected (God forbid!) do not get desperate. Every time I get rejected I remind myself that this happens because I am at least twenty years ahead of my time! Pick up the pieces and try another press.]]></description>
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