Planning, Writing, and Publishing a Book: Advice From an Editor

Are you working on a book proposal, revising and rewriting a dissertation into a book manuscript, trying to choose the best publisher for your book, or in the midst of negotiating a contract? If you have questions about any aspect of the book publishing process, then join Thomas LeBien, Executive Editor-at-Large at Harvard University Press, for Q&A and discussion over lunch. LeBien has twenty years of experience in both academic and trade publishing, having been most recently a Vice-President at Simon & Schuster and publisher of the Hill & Wang and Scientific American imprints at Farrar Strauss & Giroux. He has worked in fields as disparate as American history, science, and graphic nonfiction. Among his titles are John Hope Franklin's Mirror To America, Woody Holton's Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, and Richard Posner's Breaking the Deadlock.