Police Book Proposals

Submitting a book proposal for the police market

For all book proposals which have the police as their principal target audience, please contact the Senior Commissioning Editor, Peter Daniell

Alternatively, please submit a proposal to Lindsey Davis
at the following address:

Oxford University Press
Great Clarendon St
Oxford
OX2 6DP

The proposal should contain the following information:

1. Working title
2. Overview of proposed book, including purpose and approach, scope and level of writing.
3. Perceived market (including size)
4. Draft contents list (with a detailed description of the contents of each chapter, plus the author of the chapter if the book is to be written by a team)
5. Estimated total extent of book (and if possible please detail the length of each chapter and appendix) and proposed writing timetable and delivery dates
6. Competitor analysis - including details on how your proposed book would differentiate from, improve on, or fit in with the existing books on the market
7. List of authors and contributors
8. Any other pertinent information (including draft materials if any material is ready)

Please also include the CVs of all authors and contributors setting out their experience and details of any previous writing projects they have been involved in.

What happens to your proposal?

The Editor will respond within a week to let you know whether or not your proposal might in principle be suitable for publication by OUP. If so, the proposal will be sent out for review (after refinement if necessary). All publishing proposals must pass successfully through a peer-review process (the papers are sent in confidence to expert practitioners for their advice on its suitability for publication by OUP). If the peer-reviewers are supportive of publication, the proposal must then be formally approved by the OUP Board of Delegates before a publishing contract can be offered. You will be asked to respond to any questions or comments made by peer-reviewers before the papers are put to the Delegates for approval.

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