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As long as you are transparent with everyone that that’s what you’re doing, there is no problem with this at all. Note that up until the moment of peer review or contract, you are free to be in talks with editors at multiple presses in order to identify the best home for your book. The exclusivity usually goes away once you get the reviews back, meaning that if you don’t like what the reviewers or editor want you to do with the manuscript, you can then try your luck with a different press to give yourself some options. When your materials go out for review, particularly if you’ve submitted a full manuscript, your editor may stipulate exclusive submission, meaning that they will require you to (temporarily) pull the project from consideration elsewhere if you have submitted the proposal to multiple publishers. Many presses will move forward to peer review with just a proposal and sample chapter or two some presses prefer to wait on peer review until the author provides a full or nearly complete manuscript, especially for first-time authors. If you make it to the peer review stage, your editor will ask you to provide the materials they need for review. Peer review is a practice that distinguishes scholarly presses from other types of publishers, so it’s key for authors to understand how it works and what expectations will fall to them as a result. At other presses, editors can proceed with peer review at their own discretion. At some publishers, acquisitions editors present projects they are excited about to other press staff and are then approved by an internal committee to proceed with peer review. When an author submits a book proposal to a university press, in a best-case scenario the acquiring editor will think the project is promising and want to go ahead with peer review of the proposal and some or all of the book manuscript. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press. Today’s post is excerpted from THE BOOK PROPOSAL BOOK: A Guide for Scholarly Authors by Laura Portwood-Stacer ( Copyright © 2021 by Laura Portwood-Stacer. “89/365: Judgment” by SarahMcGowen is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
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