Proposal Guidelines for Gower Authors
Gower is widely recognized as one of the world's leading
publishers on business and management. Its products range from 1000
page handbooks through practical manuals to popular paperbacks.
These cover all the main functions of management: human resource
development, sales and marketing, project management, finance, etc.
Gower also produces training videos and activities manuals on a
wide range of management skills. We publish on a range of subjects,
including all of the topics listed below. We have two streams to
our business and management publishing:-
Professional Publishing
If you are an author writing from a professional/practitioner
perspective and writing for other professionals/practitioners in
your field your work may be suitable for the professional list.
Applied Academic Research
If you are writing from an academic perspective, but your
research based work is likely to be of interest to both an academic
and practitioner audience, the applied research list may be the
appropriate one for your proposed book.
Contacts
If you have a proposal in which you think we may be interested
please contact one of the following people. Details of the
information we need to assess your proposal can also be found
below.
Professional publishing
Jonathan Norman
email: jnorman@gowerpublishing.com
Applied research publishing
Martin West
email: mwest@gowerpublishing.com
Both at
Gower Publishing Limited
Wey Court East
Union Road
Farnham
Surrey
GU9 7PT
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)1252 736600
Fax: +44 (0)1252 736736
Topic List for professional and applied research
publishing
- Applied economics
- Business processes
- Business transformation
- Complexity management
- Company administration and governance
- Corporate performance and management
- Design
- Finance, investment and accountancy
- Food and agribusiness
- Fraud and security
- Human resources and diversity management
- Innovation
- Intellectual property and knowledge management
- Law for business
- Leadership issues
- Management
- Marketing, sales and customer services
- Operations management
- Organizational development
- Pharmaceutical business
- Project management
- Quality
- Risk management
- Student and tutor skills
- Supply chain issues and strategies
- Sustainability and social responsibility
- Technology and related business issues
- Training
Information needed for submitting a publishing proposal
About you
- Name
- Address
- Telephone number
- Fax number
- email address
- Present position/affiliation
- Relevant experience/qualifications
- Previous publications
About the book
- Provisional title
- Description in one sentence aimed at user
- Proposed length (in thousands of words)
- Approximate number and type of illustrations (if any)
- Possible delivery date
- Draft contents list, indicating structure of book and
containing descriptions of each chapter
- Rationale for the book
- Sample material written in the style you intend to adopt for
the book
- A description of the professional and/or academic markets for
which you are writing this book, specifying who in professional or
business communities and the public sector you expect to be
interested in you book, and where relevant, the academic
disciplines and research and teaching fields to which the book
might relate.
- A suggestion as to what is new and distinctive about this
book.
- An explanation of why this book will be of interest to an
international readership.
