Fellow De Re member Dana Cushing has sent us this letter, looking for authors who might be interested in working with Edwin Mellen Press (EMP). Here it is:
Dear colleagues:
I hope that De Re Militari members will consider publishing with EMP. Knowing the excellent quality of work produced by DRM members, many of whom are leaders in our field, I would be to offer to you a provisional contract (pending an editorial review meeting).
A proposal form is attached hereto.
As a medieval military historian myself, I think EMP is ideally suited to publishing our kind of work because EMP publishes all finalized MSS with full apparatus critici – full notes and bibliographies, foreign languages, tables, charts, plus color capability for maps, medieval manuscript reproduction, and other supporting research – within six months.
Most importantly, you do not have to “write down” your work for non-specialists and EMP never requests any kind of author payment – unlike most college presses.
I would be happy to offer myself personally as a point of contact for members or their students who wish to publish, and professionally as an editor. If anyone wishes to meet with me personally, I shall attend the Society for Military History conference in Frederick, MD and the International Medieval Congresses at Kalamazoo and Leeds later on this year.
Please visit our website (
www.mellenpress.com) or contact me if you have any questions about the Press or making a proposal, and please let me know if you would like some information to show to your department chair or thesis supervisor about EMP.
Y/s,
Dr. Dana Cushing
Associate Editor
The Edwin Mellen Press
716-754-2219 (direct)