Tag: publishing
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What we do with your manuscript
We’ve been talking about proposals and reviewing for some time now, and so I thought this week we’d go into a bit more detail on manuscripts. Specifically, what it is that we at Tithebarn Press do with manuscripts once they arrive. I should stress that whereas in some of my recent updates I’ve talked in…
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How to be an ideal proposal reviewer
Last week I wrote about why you should say yes as often as you can when asked to review book proposals. This week, on the basis that if a job is worth doing it is worth doing well, I thought I’d write about what this actually involves, and how to be a model reviewer. As…
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Why you should consider being a reviewer
Over the past few weeks we’ve talked about how the proposal review process sits at the core of academic book publishing. The entire process depends upon academics giving up their time to enter into good faith criticism of book proposals. This week I wanted to talk a little about why reviewing is a good thing…
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Why do we review book proposals?
One of the things we’ve had to consider quite carefully at Tithebarn Press, is what the function of reviews is in our publishing and how we go about undertaking them. I’m delighted to say that this has been especially on my mind lately as our first formal book proposals are now coming in. It’s an…

