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Publishing Strategically - Book Publishing
Location: Hybridly - Online and the Wolfson Research Exchange, the Library.
This session will focus on the ways in which publishing your work as a long form scholarly work may differ to journal publication. We will look at the book publishing process and what a book proposal form looks like as well as how to approach editors with your work in the first place. The session also touches of literary agents and how they may be useful to you.
This session will cover all disciplines and subject areas but will be of particular interest to Arts and Social Sciences researchers.
By the end of the workshop you will have:
- Considered a range of different types of scholarly books that might be options for publication. Including, monographs, trade press, textbooks, edited collections and more
- Seen examples of book proposal forms and considered how you might start completing one for your project
- Been introduced to the idea of a literary agent and discussed where one might be useful to you