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Gary Mitchem
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
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About
Gary Mitchem is an acquisitions editor at McFarland & Company, an independent academic and reference publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina. McFarland specializes in scholarly and reference works and is not a traditional literary agency. Mitchem has worked at McFarland for many years acquiring nonfiction titles across several subject areas.
Currently Looking For
I’m the senior editor at McFarland and looking for nonfiction manuscripts on a wide range of subjects, but especially sports and literary studies.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions should be emailed to gmitchem@mcfarlandpub.com McFarland welcomes proposals for nonfiction manuscripts on a wide range of subjects, not limited to the following: popular culture and performing arts (especially film, television, dance, gaming), military history (especially Vietnam War combat memoirs, World War II and Civil War), international studies, health topics, sports (especially baseball, boxing, American football), automotive (and planes and trains), literary studies (including both classic and genre fiction, mystery, SF, fantasy, horror), medieval studies, mythology, folklore, and women’s and gender studies. Multicontributor manuscripts and edited collections of essays are welcome. Authors may submit their work to us via three methods: with a query letter, a full proposal, or even (if the manuscript is complete and you’re confident it could fit in among the books we’ve already published) a finished manuscript with cover letter. In a query letter you should describe the manuscript, tell us how far along you are, estimate its final length (in either word count or double-spaced typescript pages), and tell us what is unique about the manuscript (or about you!). We answer most queries within a few days; if we’re interested we’ll invite you to send either the complete manuscript or a full proposal. A full book proposal should contain the following elements: an overall description, outline or table of contents, estimates of total word count and completion date, a
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