For those of you who may have missed the workshop last semester on Effective Book Proposals, you can find guidance and the course materials over on the Humanities Faculty’s PGR blog:
http://pgrdocblog.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/effective-book-proposals/
Scroll down to the bottom for an example of a completed proposal (kindly provided by Manchester University Press) and some great guidance from the Institute of History on getting published.
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