Table of Contents

Contents

Preface

1. Inside the Black Box

2. Start with Your Research Project

3. Finding the Right Journal

4. Writing, Reviewing, and Revising Your Article

5. Finding the Right Book Publisher

6. The Book Proposal

7. Writing the Damn Thing

8. Understanding Publishing Contracts

9. The Production Process

10. Marketing Your Work

11. The Brave New World of Electronic Publishing

12. Coda

Appendix A: Key Resources About Publishing

Appendix B: Left Coast Author's Marketing Questionnaire

Notes

References

About the Author

About the Author

Mitchell Allen is Publisher of Left Coast Press, Inc., an academic press that specializes in publishing qualitative research methods and studies. A veteran of 40 years in publishing, his prior positions included Executive Editor at Sage Publications-- where he created their qualitative research list-- and Publisher of AltaMira Press. He was responsible for developing the Handbook of Qualitative Research, several leading qualitative journals, and dozens of other well-known qualitative publications. He is coauthor of Getting Your Book Published (Sage) and two dozen articles on publishing. Allen offers regular workshops on qualitative writing and publishing. He was given lifetime achievement awards from the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry and the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. Mitchell has a Ph.D. from UCLA and teaches in the sociology/anthropology department of Mills College in Oakland, California, USA.

Reviews

"...Allen offers a precise, honest, kind, and humorous account of article and book publishing. Every academic--and soon-to-be academic--must own a copy of this book."...
--Tony E. Adams, Northeastern Illinois University

"As a new scholar trying to better understand the norms of qualitative publishing to develop a successful publication record, I found the directives in this book incredibly practical, applicable, and even a bit entertaining."
--Hilary E. Hughes, University of Georgia

"...Essentials of Publishing Qualitative Research is a must for junior scholars. It is a wise, helpful, gentle guide, written by the publisher who literally shaped and defined the field of qualitative research for the past 30 years."...
--Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

"Reveals a behind-the-scenes look at publishing while providing a fun and pragmatic field guide to getting qualitative work published from articles to academic books."
--C. Deborah Laughton, Publisher, Guilford Publications