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Laura Portwood-Stacer, "The Book Proposal Book: A Guide for Scholarly Authors" (Princeton UP, 2021)

The Academic Life

CHAPTER

How Did Your Book Change From the Proposal to What I'm Holding in My Hands?

M, you know, i was really lucky to have, am, constructive peer reviewers. So while that was a little bit scary to me, m, it also gave me the opportunity to learn their wisdom. One of the things that changed was, ah, in my proposal, i had proposed to talk about the comps,. That's a part of every book proposal. It doesn't necessarily feel to an author like the most central thing about your book is these other books that have already been writtenA but what one of the peerreviewers told me as that might be one of the first things an editor looks at is that list of books.

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