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Getting It Published, Fourth Edition - William Germano

Getting It Published, Fourth Edition

A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious About Serious Books

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Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2026 | Fourth Edition
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
9780226844794 (ISBN)
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In this thoroughly updated fourth edition, a trusted editor offers a comprehensive guide to selecting—and working with—a book publisher.

For more than two decades, writers have turned to William Germano’s Getting It Published as a guide to the world of serious book publishing, including university presses. A professor, author, and thirty-year veteran of the book industry, Germano knows what editors want and what writers need to do to get their work published.

This fourth, thoroughly updated edition of Getting It Published accounts for new challenges facing authors and changed conditions in the publishing industry. From open access to peer review, from approaching a press to considering an agent, publishing can be confusing for authors trying to understand their options. This new edition continues to offer the clear, practicable guidance on choosing the best path to publication that has made the book such a trusted resource. Its latest revisions include an expanded chapter on proposals (and their covering emails) as well as current information on the shifting landscape of ebook publishing. But this book is more than a nuts-and-bolts guide. It takes up a writer’s biggest challenges: how to frame a book-length project, shape its argument, conceive its audience, and pitch it convincingly to an editor.

Getting It Published reflects the latest changes and technologies in the publishing industry but keeps its eye on what remains constant: Whether working on their first book or their fifth, writers can make their work stronger by knowing what publishers do and why they do it.

William Germano is the author of several books, including From Dissertation to Book and On Revision, both also published by the University of Chicago Press. His most recent book, co-written with Kit Nicholls, is Syllabus: The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document That Changes Everything. He has served as editor-in-chief at Columbia University Press, vice president and publishing director at Routledge, and dean of the faculty of humanities and social sciences at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, where he is now professor of English literature.

Preface to the Fourth Edition

1. First Things First
2. What Do Publishers Do?
3. Writing the Manuscript
4. Selecting a Publisher (and Being Selected, Too)
5. Your Proposal
6. The Review Process
7. What a Contract Means
8. Collections and Anthologies
9. How to Deliver a Manuscript
10. And Then What Happens to It (and to You)

Acknowledgments
For Further Reading
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 9.3.2026
Reihe/Serie Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Journalistik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-13 9780226844794 / 9780226844794
Zustand Neuware
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