Category: Research & Scholarship

ASWM’s mission focuses on research, scholarship and teaching in Women and Mythology. These posts highlight some of our activities and members.

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Crafting a Book Proposal

By Patricia Monaghan, Ph.D.  2011.  All rights reserved.

Most publishers today require you to send them a proposal, as well as sample chapters or (in certain cases, notably fiction) the full manuscript, before they will consider a book for publication. Doing the book proposal professionally and comprehensively will increase the likelihood of your book’s receiving a positive response. This short article will guide you through the major parts of a book proposal, which are the overview, market analysis, chapter-by-chapter outline, and bio/timeline. (The order of the last three may vary, but the overview naturally always comes first.) The proposal is virtually always accompanied by approximately three sample chapters; in the case of creative writing, publishers expect to see the entire novel or book of poetry. (Note: many poetry publishers do not expect a proposal, but almost all nonfiction and fiction publishers do.)

The elements of every successful proposal are the Overview, Market Analysis, Chapter-by-Chapter Outline, Timeline/Bio, and Sample Chapters.

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Bibliographies

ASWM Bibliography View a list content available on this website in posts tagged "bibliographies". General Bibliography "This bibliography lists general texts on goddess religion as well as theoretical works that have established and expanded the field of Goddess Studies.  In addition, important works focused on specific figures or cultures are noted.  For primary sources and …

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Some Guidelines for Fair Use

In this age of the web, authors and artists will invariably run into copyright issues, either in terms of their own work or in terms of fair use of another’s work.  We have an obligation to make ourselves aware of the limitations imposed by copyright law and exceptions for “fair use” for educational purposes.

Stanford University library site covers all things related to copyright.

Here are two other good articles describing fair use:

A Photo Editor’s article on photo use on blogs

Carolyn E. Wright’s blog Photo Attorney, “The Fuss About Fair Use”

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Explorator: Links to World Archaeology

Whether you are interested in classical Greece or the Australian Dreamtime, the Explorator listserv by David Meadows is a wonderful resource.  In its 15th year, this great list covers links to all kinds of web articles (and accompanying images) on the broad topic of archaeology.  No ads, no discussion–just a single weekly email of links for you to pursue.  To subscribe to Explorator, send a blank email message to:

Explorator-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

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Image Archive for Educational Use

If you are frequently searching for images from art history or archaeological sites, you might want to add California State University’s WorldImages site to your bookmarks.  This site contains more than 80,000 images which you are free to use for non-profit educational purposes, provided that you credit the copyright holders of those images.  The database began as a collection used for teaching a survey art history course, but it has grown to include images appropriate for all grade levels.

The photo above is an example of an image relevant to our ongoing exploration of bee imagery.  Here’s the copyright information provided in WorldImages:

Silver Tetradrachm. Bee. Ephesos.
390 BCE-340 BCE
Silver
Struck
Greek Classical
Ephesus. Turkey.
New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
©Kathleen Cohen