If you have a book (or book idea!) you are hoping to publish, please join us for some insider tips and general editorial advice to help you take the next step towards your publishing goals.
University of Washington Press
Publishing Workshop
Monday, April 25
3:30-5 p.m.
Cue 319
Get Insider Tips on Publishing Your Book
The process of getting a book published in the current publishing climate can be mystifying to new authors and even to those who have published before. This open session with UW Press Editor-in –Chief Larin McLaughlin and Director Nicole Mitchell will provide an overview of the stages of academic book publishing, including:
- Choosing and contacting a press
- Writing an effective proposal
- Navigating the peer review process
- Contract negotiation
- Image and permissions tips
Larin McLaughlin has over a decade of experience in scholarly publishing, and joined the University of Washington Press as Editor-in-Chief in early 2014. She acquires books in a number of the press’s main areas: Anthropology, American Studies, Asian Studies, Asian American Studies, Western History, Environmental Studies, and Visual Culture. She has a particular interest in books that illuminate contemporary issues of race and gender. Prior to arriving at UW Press, McLaughlin was a Senior Acquisitions Editor at the University of Illinois Press, where she worked primarily with books in African American studies, women’s, gender and sexuality studies, and religious studies. She started her publishing career in 2005 at the State University of New York Press, where she acquired books in many fields in the humanities and social sciences.
Nicole Mitchell has worked in university press publishing for 33 years. In 2012, she joined the University of Washington Press, where she has devoted her first few years to reorganization and hiring, refreshing the press’s publishing program, building a new fundraising program, planning for the digital future, and cultivating international publishing partnerships. Before coming to Seattle, Mitchell served as Director and Editor-in-Chief of the University of Georgia Press for a decade and prior to this position as Director of the University of Alabama Press. Mitchell began her publishing career as a Graduate Trainee at Cambridge University Press in the UK. Her current acquisitions work is focused on regional publishing, as well as developing publications in collaboration with museums and other cultural organizations.
Co-sponsored by the
Department of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies
& the College of Arts & Sciences
