Proposal Guidelines for Lund Humphries Authors
The commissioning team at Lund Humphries
Lucy Clark is the Commissioning
Editor at Lund Humphries. We welcome new proposals for Lund
Humphries books, which should be sent or emailed to Lucy, following
our Proposal
Guidelines.
New proposals
We are particularly interested in receiving new proposals within
the following areas:
How we assess proposals
Some of the questions which we ask when we receive a proposal for a new book are:
- Does it make an original contribution to the field? The books we publish are generally on topics which have not been well-covered by existing publications, or which offer a new or more comprehensive approach to a well-known subject. We may well send a proposal to an external referee for an assessment of its originality.
- How will we sell the book? We need to be clear on what the market for your book is and how we would reach it. Lund Humphries books are aimed at specialists, professionals and academics within the Fine and Applied arts. We also have the ability to reach a more general audience through our distribution to bookshops internationally.
- Can we publish the book economically? Art books are expensive to produce and an art book on a specialist subject may have a limited market. Every book proposal is costed in detail prior to contract. In some cases we are only able to proceed with a proposal if there is a subsidy to reduce costs, or a special bulk sale of copies to a gallery or other institution.
Please feel free to contact Lucy Clark if you have any questions about your proposal.
Once your book is under contract with Lund Humphries, you will be sent our Notes for Authors and Image Guidelines. Please contact one of our Commissioning team if you have any questions about the preparation of your text and illustrations.
