Online Author Information Form

The Author Information Form may be completed online below, or, if you prefer to complete it offline, you can access the PDF version of the form (this requires Acrobat Reader—for further information on PDFs, please see our PDF information page). The PDF version of the form can either be printed and completed on paper, or the text of the PDF form can be selected, copied, and pasted into your word processing or email program. Please do NOT send the completed form as an attachment via email.

Who is your acquisitions editor?:

Personal Information

Full name (first, middle, last):

Name as you would like it on the book:

Tentative title of the book:

Date (month/day/year) and place of birth (for Library of Congress forms):

Home address, including zip code (please do not list a P.O. Box number):

Office address including zip code (please include a street address for your department):

Home telephone number:

Office telephone number:

Fax number:

Email address:
This box MUST be filled in for the whole form to work.

Do you have a professional homepage? If so, what is the URL?

Do you wish correspondence to be sent to your home rather than your office?

home
office

May we release your home number to interested parties, e.g., reviewers?

yes
no

May we release your email address to interested parties, e.g., reviewers?

yes
no

Travel schedule over the next year:

Professional Information

Current position (as you would like it to read on promotional materials for the book):

Former positions:

Colleges and universities attended, with degrees, dates, and honors:

Professional awards, honors, and other citations:

Books published: Title, Publisher, Year

Advance Promotional Information

Please describe your book in 300 to 500 words. Reading a description is the way most people will first encounter your book; therefore, we invite you, as the person who best knows your work and its intended audience, to craft a descriptive essay that will appeal to a diverse readership of academics, teachers, librarians, booksellers, editors, and others. We suggest that you begin with a summary sentence or two that describe your book in a succinct and interesting manner. We then ask that you develop the basic themes from these sentences into four distinct paragraphs, each of which explains your book to one of four specific audiences, defined below. Please keep in mind that these readerships will not share a uniformly complex understanding of your subject matter. Finally, in order to increase the likelihood of your book being located by web searches, we ask that you please use item 6 below to list ten keywords or phrases that are closely associated with your work (e.g., "finance, economics, interest rate, exchange, currency, speculation"). We will use these words in our web copy and other online materials, in order to ensure that your book is as findable as possible online.

1. Summary sentence (or two):
2. An introductory paragraph to interest the nonspecialist, the general reader, the librarian, or the bookseller in the general subject.
3. A second factual and informative paragraph that expands the first by describing the main items or areas covered by the book. What is unique about your book? Illustrations, organization, theories . . .
4. A paragraph addressed to the specialist which illustrates the main findings or concepts and the originality of the research or method.
5. A paragraph that indicates to librarians and booksellers how this book relates to your as well as other disciplines, and what the readership of this book is.
6. In an effort to enhance your book's presence on the web and its ability to be found by using various search engines such as Google, please provide a list of ten keywords and /or phrases that describe your book.

Please list three to five people, and their affiliations, whom we could approach for a promotional statement. They should be chosen to represent the book to the different reader groups you hope to attract to your work.

Your book may become part of our twice-yearly rights list, a compilation of book descriptions sent to foreign-language, British, and other English-language publishers outside of North America, with the intent of selling translation and/or distribution rights. Please note any information that may assist us in interesting these presses in your book.

Thank you for your cooperation. We will endeavor to make your publishing experience with the University of Michigan Press a rewarding one.

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