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CQ PRESS PROPOSAL GUIDELINES
COLLEGE PUBLISHING - POLITICAL SCIENCE
To ensure that CQ Press can accurately assess your project, please include the following elements and address the following questions in your manuscript proposal:
The Prospectus
Overall Plan: What is your rationale for writing the text? Do you have a special point of view? What approach will the book have, by way of a theme, analytic framework, or theoretical grounding? Will your work include original scholarship or will it be wholly synthetic? Describe the text and the topics you will cover. How will the content be organized? How will your text differ from its major competitors? How will it be similar?
Market: In which course(s) will your work be adopted? What kind of schools offers this course? What prerequisites, if any, are there? What sort of student takes this course? Is the course in a state of flux? Do you teach the course regularly? Do you see non-course potential for your book as well?
Competition: What reading materials are professors who are likely to adopt your book currently assigning? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the books against which yours will compete? Are you aware of similar projects in development?
Length: What is the projected length of the book (in word count, as well as manuscript or book pages)?
Pedagogy: What illustrations (tables, figures, charts, and maps) will the book employ and for what purpose? Would you like to include photos and cartoons? How many and to what effect? What plans do you have for special features (boxed inserts, glossaries, appendices, questions, key terms, etc.)? What competitive advantages will they offer?
Schedule: What is your schedule for writing the book? How much have you already written? What dates do you estimate for completion of a first draft?
Credentials: What are your credentials; teaching, writing, research experience; degrees and affiliations; special qualifications?
Ancillaries: What teaching ancillaries, if any, should be planned for the book (e.g., web site, instructor’s manual, student workbook, test bank)? Are you willing to develop these materials?
Annotated Table of Contents
Please include an annotated table of contents that describes, in as much detail as possible, the contents and approach of each chapter. The more information you can provide here, the more substantive the feedback reviewers can provide.
Sample Chapters
You should also prepare at least one, preferably two, sample chapters. While the prospectus and the table of contents reveal the thinking behind the conception of the book, draft chapters demonstrate whether its potential will be realized.
Reviewers
We would appreciate the names and affiliations of three or four people whose feedback you would find beneficial if they reviewed your proposal. We will consider them along with our own reviewers.
Please submit your proposals to:
Charisse Kiino
Chief Acquisitions Editor
CQ Press
2300 N Street, NW
Suite 800
Washington, DC 20037
Email: ckiino@cqpress.com