Texas Tech University Press is an active academic publisher accepting submissions in specific subject areas. Their submission guidelines are detailed on their website, and they prefer electronic submissions for efficiency. The press is open to proposals that align with their publishing scope, which includes scholarly and trade books focusing on Texas, the Southwest, the Great Plains, and the American West, among other areas.
Texas Tech University Press Submission Guidelines
Submission Address
2903 4th Street, Suite 201
Lubbock TX 79415-3205
Phone: (806) 742-2983
Submitting Your Work to Texas Tech University Press
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From the Texas Tech University Press guidelines:
To submit a book proposal to us, you should send a two- to four-page typed outline or annotated contents indicating the nature and scope of each chapter and any significant appendices. Your proposal should also include an introduction, a minimum of two sample chapters, and a cover letter with the following:
•Your working title
•Anticipated manuscript length and number and kind of graphic materials, if any
•Your description of and estimate of the size of the audience toward which you are directing the book
•A comparison of your book to others published on the subject, explaining why you think your treatment of the subject is unique
•A brief autobiographical summary or CV telling us why you are qualified to write this book, and the nature and scope of your research
Please mail your materials directed to the attention of the appropriate acquiring editor.
Submission Guidelines Details for Texas Tech University Press
Market Type: Book
Contact: Judith Keeling, Editor-in-Chief (Texas, the American West, the Great Plains, American history, American Indian studies, sport, law, costume/textile history, environmental studies, and fiction); Robert Mandel, Director (Latin American and Latino fiction, European history, Vietnam and Southeast Asia); Joanna Conrad, Editor (natural history, natural science, technical communication and rhetoric)
Email: judith.keeling@ttu.edu; robert.mandel@ttu.edu; joanna.conrad@ttu.edu
Accepts: art, biography, communication, environment, history, law, literary criticism, literature, memoir, nature, photography, poetry, regional, science, sports, translation
Web Address: www.ttupress.org