About the Book

WRITING LOCAL HISTORY TODAY

Series: American Association for State and Local History

Series Editor: Rebekah Beaulieu, Taft Museum of Art

Targeted to those who want to enhance their research and make their writing more effective, this new edition of Writing Local History Today provides solid advice to anyone seeking to understand and navigate the complex and rapidly changing world of publishing, whether they are prospective authors or new publishers taking on a project for the first time. Highlights to this new edition include:

Discussions of how to identify an audience for your writing project and write a winning proposal

• Tips for effective research and planning

• Sample documents, such as contracts, request for proposals, permission requests, an interview release form, a contributor agreement, and a marketing questionnaire

• Tips and guidance for choosing and working with publishers

• Guidance for understanding and navigating the peer review process

• A new chapter on understanding the economics of publishing

• A discussion of how to use social media to leverage your publication

• A discussion of the benefits and drawbacks to self-publishing

• New information and resources regarding diversity and biased language

• A new discussion of oral history

• A new Glossary of publishing terms

 This guide is especially useful for first-time authors who need help with this sometimes daunting process, or for previously published historians who want a refresher on the changes taking place in the publishing landscape.