Lived Places Publishing publishes short, accessible course reading books. We do not publish textbooks or scholarly monographs. Books are between 30,000-60,000 words, and should examine social identity(ies) in the context of place(s), through the lens of lived experience. They can be autoethnographic but do not have to be, and should:

• Be aligned to a discipline or interdisciplinary topic;
• Include an abstract and keywords;
• Feature five to 10 learning objectives; and
• Feature five to 10 discussion topics and/or suggested assignments.

Unless you want to gather your own contributors, LPP are not looking for contributors to an edited volume. Rather, we are seeking authors for short books, which will sit in collections within the social sciences. The collections in question are more like a book series than one edited volume. Books can be quite short, though - we ask for a minimum of around 30,000 words - so we would love to receive a book proposal from you!

Yes. LPP are happy to publish books by multiple authors, or books with a lead author and multiple contributors. However, because our books are designed to be short and accessible - they should be readable in about a week by the average university student - we recommend that co-authors number no more than 2-3, and contributors number no more than around 5-6. This is not a hard-and-fast rule, but generally keeping the contributor numbers low allows a book to go into the depth necessary to really explore a story while still keeping the book short.

Well... sort of. while LPP do not publish scholarly monographs, many authors do choose to adapt their theses. So we are not the right home to publish your PhD or Masters' thesis as it is, no - but we would be happy to speak with you about how you can adapt the material for a short course reading.

We are currently doing a limited number of translations to English. We need the original book proposal completed in English and we need a member of the author team or a support person for the author team who can review the English translation for accuracy and communicate with our editorial team.

No. LPP does not charge authors to publish. There is no book processing fee. LPP believes in fairly compensating creators for their work, and are actively working to remove barriers to publishing for historically underrepresented voices - this means no upfront fees for authors.

Authors and collection editors are both remunerated for their work on LPP books on a royalty basis. Please see this article for more information: Equity and Open Access in Publishing.

LPP believes in fairly compensating creators for their work, and are actively working to remove barriers to publishing for historically underrepresented voices - and part of this is about paying creators fairly for their work. Authors and collection editors are both remunerated for their work on LPP books on a royalty basis. Please see this article for more information: Equity and Open Access in Publishing.

Our collection editors provide the first and critical round of peer review. Our collection editors are experienced researchers, lecturers, and activists in their respective fields and bring a wealth of experience to their role. In addition to the collection editor directly responsible for a given review, we enlist collection editor review across the fields each submitted book addresses as many LPP titles are interdisciplinary.

We take academic rigor and the suitability of our books for course reading material very seriously. To this end, at the discretion of our collection editors, and in conjunction with our authors, we do engage external open peer review when our team of collection editors considers a book or topics within a book to be outside the collection editor's area of expertise.

LPP books follow the Harvard referencing system, so your book should use in-text citations and have a references section at the end. You only need to list references you have directly cited - a full scholarly bibliography is not required. There will be some guidance on this in your Author Handbook.

Not very long! LPP books should be short, accessible, easy to read, and generally focused more on lived experience than in-depth text analysis. While quotations, statistics, and facts that are not widely understood/known should be referenced properly using the Harvard system, we recommend using a light hand when it comes to citations and references. Please see your Author Handbook for more information.

Yes please! But don't worry - we will provide you with step-by-step instructions for producing a clear, simple, short index for your book in your Author Handbook. And if you get really stuck, the editorial team are here to help!

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There is no specific number of words that you can use without permission or a proper citation. The copyright owner can still claim copyright infringement.

The permissions process is basically the same for all third-party content, but it will vary depending on the copyright holder’s process for requesting the permissions.

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No, there is no law that requires the copyright holder to respond to any permission requests. A non-response should be considered a denial.

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