Langaa Research and Publishing
Common Initiative Group
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AUTHOR QUESTIONNAIRE
revised 6 June 2009

Dear Author,

Your manuscript will be reviewed by Langaa’s editorial team, led by the managing editor. Your answers to this questionnaire will provide us with contact information for our records, for Cataloguing in Publication (CIP), and for opening a marketing file for your book, should your manuscript be accepted for publication.

Please submit your manuscript with the completed Author Questionnaire to editor@langaa-rpcig.net. You will be contacted by email, one way or the other, regarding your manuscript.

If your manuscript is accepted for publication, after work on it by the editorial team, it will be handed over to the production team, which will prepare your book for printing, a process that normally takes about six months. When your book goes into production, the marketing team will send you a Promotion Questionnaire to gather information for marketing your book. 

Do keep in touch, ask any questions, and inform us of any changes in the information provided.

DATE

Date of questionnaire completion and submission:

NAME AND CONTACT INFORMATION

1. Full name as it should appear on the book (first names and then last name):

2. Email:
3. Phone:
3. Skype:

5. Physical mailing address:

BIODATA

Please attach your CV if you have not already given it to us.

6. Present academic affiliation and/or official title: 

7. Date of birth (confidential for CIP application only): 

8. Female or male:

9. Draft ‘About the Author’ to appear in your book 

It is standard practice to include About the Author in the prelims of every book. It would be helpful if you could suggest a draft of what you would like to appear.

YOUR BOOK

10. Title (or working title) of your book: 

11. For this book, are you Author / Co-author / Editor / Co-editor / Other? 

If you are the editor, we will need a list of contributors and their mailing addresses at the time the book goes into production (when you submit the final manuscript). 

12. Draft back cover blurb: please provide a 250-word summary of your book.

13. Draft table of contents (TOC): please provide TOC, including list of chapter titles and, if appropriate, principal subheadings (unless you have already provided this in the manuscript).

14. Endorsements: please think about and list who you could approach to ask for endorsements to appear on the back cover of your book. Your editor will discuss this with you when your book goes into production.

MARKETING OF YOUR BOOK

Once your manuscript is ready for copyediting and proofreading, it will go into production. At that stage, the marketing team may send you a Promotion Questionnaire, which asks for detailed ideas and leads for sales, marketing and promotion. 

15. If, however, there are any comments or suggestions regarding the marketing of your book that you would like to bring up at this point, please include them here: