Editors play critical--but often behind the scenes--roles in publications of all sorts, as they work to make each individual manuscript, proposal, monograph, journal, or book as good as it possibly can be.
Although we have no formal policies regarding manuscript proposals and submissions, what we need minimally, in order to gauge our degree of interest, is a brief statement describing the manuscript, a copy of the contents page, and a reasonably current vita.
A manuscript, a book proposal, a debut short story is out there and everyone knows about it and if you want to buy it and publish it you better get the cash there quick quick quick, ballistic fast.
Peer review is considered the essential process by which judgments can be made regarding the quality of a manuscript, a grant proposal or other scholarly work.
Know whether you should prepare a manuscript or a proposal.
It is like a sales letter that tries to persuade an editor or agent to request a full manuscript or proposal.
Under the supervision of Editorial Assistants and Assistant Editors, the acquisitions intern will research readers to review manuscripts and witness the process a manuscript goes through from proposal to accepted book.
If one of us is getting close with a proposal or a manuscript, we go through pages almost every day, by phone, by email, by meeting in Cambridge or London or in Great Snoring – wherever I'm living at the time.
Only the first chapter concerns a book proposal for a manuscript not yet written, and its methods for evaluating the goals of a book are crucial for any project, whether completed or not.
Jack's brilliance, and what he passed along to me, is in not worrying about what's on the page you're looking at when evaluating a proposal or a manuscript.
Catherine has experience writing scientific manuscripts, proposals, and review articles and is looking forward to working with fellow graduate students on their writing projects!
