Book Proposal Guidelines
Serving as a vital platform for advancing TWU’s commitment to fostering intellectual rigor, amplifying women’s voices, and contributing to scholarly discourse across diverse disciplines, the Texas Woman’s University Pioneering Women: Leaders and Trailblazers book series is an interdisciplinary collection that explores innovative knowledge, creativity, and discoveries shaped by women and women’s experiences in fields such as the arts, sciences, spirituality, religion, politics, business, education, the military, health sciences, and community service.
The book series welcomes monographs, edited collections, theoretical analyses, biographies, memoirs, historical and contemporary studies, and illustrated volumes of visual art or photography related to women’s intellectual leadership and matters affecting the lives of women. We define “intellectual leadership” broadly, to include both visionary and practical dimensions as well as the ability to inspire, influence, and guide individuals or groups toward achieving common goals and objectives.
The Texas Woman’s University Pioneering Women: Leaders and Trailblazers book series is a sponsoring institute for Texas A&M Press. Books developed as part of the book series are passed on to Texas A&M University Press for peer review.
If you would like your book project to be considered for publication as part of the Pioneering Women: Leaders and Trailblazers book series, respond to the following book proposal prompts and email your book proposal to Dr. AnaLouise Keating, book series general editor and professor at Texas Woman’s University (akeating@twu.edu).
Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition notes and bibliography style guide preferred.
- Working title of book
- Name, email, and telephone number
- Description of your book
- book’s purpose and scope
- book’s contribution and connection to existing literature (including, especially, recent academic literature)
- book’s uniqueness, innovativeness
- To what audience/s does your book appeal?
- How does your book fit the mission of this book series?
- Anticipated word count and completion date
- Illustrations or photographs? (If so, will you have copyright permission?)
- Please provide a tentative table of contents
- Please provide brief chapter outlines
- Please provide a writing sample from proposed book (2,500 word minimum)
- Was any portion of the proposed manuscript generated by or used to train an artificial intelligence (AI) tool (including but not limited to ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Rytr, Gemini, Claude, or Writesonic)? If yes, please identify the AI tool(s) used and specify which portions of the manuscript or illustrations were involved.
- Please provide contact information for at least three potential reviewers who have expertise in your book’s field (to preserve the integrity of peer review, we ask that you do not notify your suggested reviewers). Ideally, the reviewers will be academics with published books.
- CV, résumé, or biography
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