Writing a book proposal may not be exactly like appearing on a reality-TV show, but thinking about it in that way might help to remind you what you’re up against. In case you spend your Monday nights ...

No matter what stage you’ve reached with your book – be it just an idea or a complete draft script – a publisher will want to see an outline proposal to gauge if they’re the right publisher for it.

After a lengthy hiatus caused by other obligations, I am back with the third installment in my series of posts about how how to publish an academic book. In Part I, I summarized the criteria that can ...

Writing your very own textbook? Now that’s a challenge, and for many, an attractive one at that. You’ve taught the same class many times and never really quite found the book that fits your style of ...

In the beginning, Jason Methner was the impatient one. After meeting Molly Lipsitz at a mutual friend’s birthday party in Wicker Park, Methner, 27 at the time and in a master’s program at Northwestern ...

The proposal is divided into two sections: a 35-page “outline” of the book, which tells the story of Marnell’s life so far, and a 38-page essay that appears to be a sample chapter. (“Appears to be” ...