New York University Press 838 Broadway, Third Floor New York, NY 10003 212-998-2575 (tel) 212-995-3833 (fax) AUTHOR QUESTIONNAIRE Please complete this questionnaire and return it (via e-mail, if possible) to your editor along with your final manuscript. The information you provide will help us promote and sell your book more effectively. Please take time to read through and respond to all the questions as comprehensively as possible, as your insights, input, and connections will be very useful to us in our efforts to reach your widest possible audience. In addition to filling out the questionnaire, please attach the book's table of contents and a current C.V. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact your editor. Thank you. Date: AUTHOR INFORMATION Your name as you would like it to appear on the title page: Your name, position, and affiliation as it should appear in marketing materials: Office address: Office telephone number: Office fax number: Office email: Home address: Home telephone number: Home fax number: Home email: Personal website or blog address: Where do you prefer us to direct correspondence? Home Work Both Date and place of birth: (Required for copyright purposes) Citizenship: (Required for copyright purposes) YOUR BOOK 1. Title: 2. Subtitle: 3. Coauthor(s) or Coeditor(s): 4. Series (if any): AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Information in this section may be used for book jacket copy, publicity releases, etc. If you have a biographical release that provides this information, please attach it to the completed questionnaire. 1. Your academic and professional record: Degrees Subject College/University Year Recent Positions Affiliations From To 2. Previous books (including title, publisher, and year of publication): a) Indicate any that have been serialized or selected by book clubs: b) List licenses granted for foreign editions, both English-language and translations (include publisher and language): 3. Forthcoming books, other than this one (including title, publisher, and anticipated year of publication): 3. Honors and awards received: 4. Relevant organizations or associations of which you are a member (including major offices held, with dates of office): 5. Please write a brief author biography as you would like it to appear on any book jacket (about 50 words). 6. If your book is an edited collection, please attach to this questionnaire a list of the names and contact information for all of the contributors to your book, including e-mail addresses. With your manuscript, include a list of brief bios that includes the affiliations and major publications of each contributor. ENDORSEMENTS 1. Please list the names of prominent scholars, government officials, authors, or others who might comment on your book for promotional purposes. This will be our starting point for soliciting advance endorsementsÑor "blurbs"Ñfor the back cover of your book. Mark with an asterisk any you know personally. Include contact information (e-mail addresses or telephone number preferred) if you have it. COVER These questions are meant to help our designer generate an appropriate cover for the book. 1. Please give us a brief idea of what you imagine for the book's cover. 2. Do you have a specific image (i.e. illustration, photograph) in mind? Please list below and provide any relevant information you may have concerning the image (i.e. location, rights holder). If you have a photocopy of the image, please include it with this questionnaire. 3. Are there any other covers (especially of NYU Press books) that you like and that might be used as models for your own book's cover? If so, please either provide a photocopy of the cover or bibliographic information on the book. SUBJECT MATTER OF YOUR BOOK Information you provide in this section will help the Press sales staff to promote your book effectively and will serve as the basis for advertising copy. List the most important features first. 1. A full description (200-300 words) of the contents and style of your book. The description you provide here will be used as the basis for the book's cover copy. It should therefore be targeted to your primary readership and written in an accessible and engaging manner. Some ideas to keep in mind as you write include: the book's scope and main argument, your reasons for writing it, its value and importance to your readers, its original contributions, your approach and methodology, and the features that most distinguish it: 2. A one to two sentence description (50 words) of the contents and style of your book: 3. Key selling points: a.) b.) c.) 4. Audience: a.) What is the main audience for which your book has been written? b.) Secondary audience? c.) Is there a professional market for your book? d.) If you envision a classroom market for your book (if not for the cloth then a potential paperback edition) please supply the most relevant course and a list of some sample classes and academic departments in which the book might be adopted. In what level classes would you expect your book to be taught? Would it be a required or supplementary text? 4. Please list the top three or four competing books. Even if you feel that there are no direct competitors, list books that are currently used or recommended on this subject. In addition to the bibliographic information about these books, please describe the features that set your book apart. 5. Has any portion of your book appeared in one or more periodicals? Where? When? If you are including a revised version of any previously published works, please detail what changes have been made. If the previous work needs to be cited, list the proper citation below and attach any necessary permission(s). PUBLICITY 1. Please list, in order of importance, the names of the most important publications in your field. Please include any specialty magazines or journals that pertain to the subject of your book. Also include any journalists known to you personally, marking their names with an asterisk. We maintain a database of all media contacts so are aware of the major general interest and academic publications but be aware that books of a scholarly nature will not be sent to places likes the New York Times Book Review, Boston Globe, Washington Book World, Chicago Tribune, etc. 2. If your university has a public relation's office, please list contact information below. 3. Please list the names of university publications with which you have an affiliation (as alumni or faculty.) 4. Please list conferences or events that are relevant to the subject matter. Indicate those you expect to attend. 5. Please list any awards for which your book might be eligible. Please note the name of the prize, the group sponsoring the award, and any other information you might have about nominating books for the award. 6. Please let us know about any special events, anniversaries, etc. with which your book coincides. 7. Please list any websites or blogs that are relevant to your book. 8. Please list up to twelve (12) scholars, along with their affiliations, whom you think may either be interested in adopting your book for a course or be instrumental in letting a range of others know about your work and encouraging its use, e.g. by helping get it reviewed in a journal. 9. If you feel your book has particularly strong appeal in any foreign countries, and you have a contact at any publishers there, please supply contact information below. ADVERTISING & PROMOTION 1. Of the scholarly or professional journals in your field that accept advertising, which are the most influential and effective in reaching potential buyers of your book? Please list in descending order of importance. Because of budgetary constraints and the academic nature of your book, it will not be featured in publications like The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation and similar general interest publications. 2. Please list professional associations or societies whose membership lists might be appropriate for direct mail or email promotion. 3. Do you have access toÑor are you aware of--mailing lists to which we might send promotional material on your book? If so, please attach or advise us. Even better, tell us about organizational mailings that might accept promotional inserts about your book. Also, please list association memberships, journal subscribers, or other groups relevant to your book's audience. 4. Do you have access to listservs or e-newsletters on which your book could be announced or promoted? SPECIAL SALES 1. Please list special markets, such as corporations and institutions that are likely to be interested in your book. Include non-U.S. possibilities. Thank you for your effort!