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GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS We request that authors submit book proposals rather than a full manuscript for review. Authors should first familiarize themselves with MNMP titles in order to determine the suitability of their projects to the Museum Press. A proposal should include a query letter describing the subject of the book and the approach taken. Questions to address in the letter include:
What are the unique features? How does it compare to other books on the same or similar topics? Who is the audience? Why will people buy it? Why is it appropriate for the Museum of New Mexico Press? How long is the manuscript (how many words)? If an illustrated work, what kind and how many? Is the book intended to supplement or accompany a museum collection or exhibit or is it tied to another event?
Please include a resume or vita, a table of contents, and a sample
chapter and samples of artwork (if an illustrated project).
Also include information on previously published books
(title, publisher, year). Address proposals to:
Museum of New Mexico Press Box 2087 Santa Fe, NM 87504 |
Featured Title :
Guitars and Adobes and the Uncollected Stories of Fray Angelico Chavez
Fray Angélico Chávez [born Manuel Ezequiel Chávez] (1910-1996) was one of New Mexico’s foremost writers and intellectuals, with hundreds of poems, articles, plays, stories, and twenty-four books to his credit. In 1924, at the age of fourteen, he traveled from northern New Mexico to Ohio to study and train in the Franciscan Order, becoming the first native New Mexican to be ordained a Franciscan priest.
This rare collection of writings combines Chávez’s early fiction with his little-known novel Guitars and Adobes, originally published in 1931-32 in serialized form. The novel presents an alternative Hispano vision to Willa Cather’s famed Death Comes for the Archbishop.
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