Thank you for your interest in publishing with the University of Georgia Press. Before writing with an initial query or to submit a proposal for consideration, please review the acquisitions areas of our editors and browse the website. Because we receive a large number of submissions, please do submit all queries—formal or informal—via email. We do not accept editorial inquiries via telephone. Unsolicited telephone inquiries will not be returned. We also do not publish unsolicited fiction or poetry outside of our competitions. Nor do we accept unsolicited queries for children’s books.
Submitting a Proposal
Proposal submissions should generally include an overview, annotated table of contents, two sample chapters and other details about your current vision for the book. This includes:
- Title
- Overview explanation of the scope, focus, and purpose of the project.
- Significant or unique features (e.g., new subject area, distinguished contributors, unique structure). Provide information that will help us answer the question, “Why does this book represent a needed new contribution to your field?” Also tell us what other books or resources already are available on your topic or closely related topics and how your proposed book differs from these.
- For monographs and other single-authored works: book outline, listing each chapter with a one- to two-paragraph narrative description of what will be covered in each chapter. Authors submitting an already completed manuscript should submit, in lieu of a book outline, a table of contents with each copy of the manuscript.
- For edited collections: book outline, with abstracts (one or two paragraphs apiece) for all essays, a draft introduction, and brief notes on the contributors.
- Two sample chapters or, in the case of edited collections, two sample essays.
- Authors submitting an already completed manuscript should submit, in lieu of two sample chapters, one electronic copy of the manuscript.
- Proposed format—if you are proposing a book of unusual size or format, please describe it and tell us why you think this format is the best way to present your content to the intended audience.
- Describe any photographs, illustrations, charts, etc., that will be part of the book.
- Estimated length—we are looking for manuscripts that are a minimum of 160 manuscript pages, ranging from 40,000 to 100,000 words.
- Tentative schedule for completion of draft manuscript.
- Preliminary bibliography / works cited.
- A copy of your current résumé or CV.
Please also provide details and, where relevant, data about the following:
- The book’s target market, the audience and relevant demographics. Who needs this book? Scholars? Students? If students, which classes?
- The book’s selling points; that is, what might motivate someone to purchase the book, what the reader will gain from the book.
- Positioning your book in the current book market: What books on the same subject are currently in print? How is your book different from those books?
Address your proposal, and any requests for further information, to the appropriate editor via email. And we encourage you to send a brief initial query email to an editor before submitting any materials.