Author/Editor Questionnaire

 

Use this form if you are a prospective author or editor, so that we can determine the feasibility of your project.


Book Title:

Series:

Estimated Book Size:

Estimated Date of Manuscript Completion:

Date this questionnaire was completed:


Bibliographic Information

Full Name:

Title(s):

Affiliation(s):

How should your name and affiliations appear in promotion?

Present address and telephone/fax number (if possible, provide home address and phone number):

Address:

Telephone Number :
Fax Number:
Email Address:

Birthdate*:

Citizenship/domicile*:

(*This information is needed for securing CIP data from the National Library of Canada.)


Personal Distinctions

Academic degrees, honours, distinctions conferred, and posts held that are relevant to this book or software and could contribute to promotion. Please email curriculum vitae separately if you have one available.

Previous publications of relevance to the promotion of this book or software:


Primary Readership of Your Book or Usership of Your Software

a. Disciplines:

b. Level of audience:

c. Features of your publication or software that will appeal specifically to this audience:

Secondary Readership or Usership

a. Disciplines:

b. Level of audience:

Professional societies to which your intended audience would belong (please indicate appropriate subdivisions, if any):

Professional journals which are read by your intended audience:


Exhibits/Conferences

Please give us the dates, places, and names of organizers of conventions relevant to your book or software.

Mailing Lists

If you have access to any up-to-date mailing lists that we may use for our advertising, please attach or advise us. Please make certain that they have complete names and addresses, including postal codes.


About Your Book or Software

Please supply us with information about your book or sofware, taking into account the questions below. This statement will serve as the basis for our promotional material.

Describe your book or software?

What is its purpose?

Who is the intended audience?

What are the most important features of your work?

Which new results, methods, or information are of particular interest to readers or users?

Is the approach to the subject matter new?

What benefits can readers expect to derive from the book or software?

If this is a new edition, how does it differ from the previous one?

What are the relevant advantages over rival literature or software?

If your book or software is intended as a textbook, in which department will the subject matter be taught?

What are titles of potential courses?

Please suggest any illustrations for use in promotion. Please do not suggest art that has been used by permission from another source.

Please supply us with a brief biography of the author(s)/editor(s) to be used as a basis for promotional material.


Reviews of Your Book or Software

Please list, in order of importance, the name and address of all journals you believe might review your book or software. This should include Canadian, US and overseas journals.

Manuscript or Software Reviews

Please give the name and address of two or three suggested reviewers for your material whom you have not personally contacted in this regard. (We will also attempt to locate our own reviewers.)

Name
Address
Telephone/
Fax Number
Email Address

Rival Publications or Software

Are there any books or software of similar content and level presently on the market? If so, please identify them. If possible, please list title, author(s), publisher, year of publication and price.

Special Sales

Are you aware of any institutions, corporations, or agencies that might be interested in bulk purchases of your book or software.

Institution
Contact
Address
Telephone
/Fax Number
Email Address