Beth Luey is the founding director emerita of the Scholarly Publishing Program at Arizona State University. She has more than thirty years' experience working in scholarly editing and publishing, having edited books for many university presses and textbook publishers and conducted publishing workshops for doctoral students and faculty members across numerous college campuses. In addition to Handbook for Academic Authors, now in its sixth edition, Luey is the author of Expanding the American Mind: Books and the Popularization of Knowledge and Revising Your Dissertation: Advice from Leading Editors.

• 1. Being an Author; 2. Journal articles; 3. Revising a dissertation; 4. Finding a publisher for a scholarly book; 5. Working with your publisher; 6. Multiauthor books and anthologies; 7. Finding a publisher for a college textbook; 8. Working with your textbook publisher; 9. Books for general readers; 10. The mechanics of authorship; 11. Costs and prices; 12. Being a digital Author; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.

'To new and experienced authors, publishing can seem mysterious. In this classic handbook, Beth Luey is your tour guide to the sometimes-arcane world of how ideas become books. It is essential for all serious authors and those who hope to become one.' Greg Britton, Editorial Director, Johns Hopkins University