Editing academic book proposals

Want to know more about editing academic book proposals? Laura Portwood-Stacer discusses what it involves and how to develop your skills.

Listen to find out more about

• What is an academic book proposal?
• How and why editors can get involved
• The types of work and the kinds of editing editors carry out
• How academic book proposals differ from other types of book proposals
• Who evaluates academic book proposals and what they're looking for
• The key elements of an academic book proposal
• Which elements authors typically need most help with
• The contextual information editors need to gather from an author
• How editors can learn about this type of work: The Book Proposal Book

Find out more about Laura Portwood-Stacer

• Contact Laura: manuscriptworks.com and lauraportwoodstacer.com
• Read The Book Proposal Book: manuscriptworks.com/book
• Train as an academic developmental editor: courses.manuscriptworks.com
• 10% discount coupon for course: EDITINGPODCAST

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Music credit

‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/