Crafting a superior book can be compared to constructing a building. The cornerstone of such a book is the author’s expertise, and setting that cornerstone requires advance planning. The first step in this process is finding the right team of publishing professionals to shape the book and provide editing, professional design, timely production, and effective marketing to meets the demands of your specific audience and assure product delivery. Blackwell Publishing performs all of these functions knowledgeably, drawing on decades of expertise and successful publishing in agriculture, aquaculture, aviation, clothing & textiles, dentistry, dietetics, equestrian, food science, journalism, Midwest interests, and veterinary medicine.

Many authors comment on the courteous and professional care they and their projects enjoy at Blackwell Publishing. If you have a project that fits in one of our publishing lines, you are invited to contact us. See our guidelines for manuscript proposals.

If your proposal has already been accepted, the following author guidelines will answer many of the questions you may have as you prepare your manuscript:

•     Author responsibilities

•     How to submit your manuscript

•     Manuscript preparation (including electronic file requirements, style guidelines, and important information about permissions)

•     Manuscript element guidelines (information about preparing tables, figures, and equations)

•     Working with our Prepress/Editorial department

•     Marketing (including information about author promotion forms and basic marketing stages)

•     Sample permission letters (for tables, figures, photos, other images, and oral interviews)