How can you maximize your chances of getting published in the US?

• Be professional
  • Polished English in ms. (and in correspondence, if possible)
  • Correct scholarly apparatus and organizational structure for your field
  • Submit to the right market (journal or publishing house)
  • Submit completed work, not work in progress
  • Learn and apply the expected rhetorical style
  • Tailor your writing for the foreign reader
  • Be informed about other work that relates to yours
  • Ensure good access to electronic communications
  • Meet your deadlines
  • If you can't meet a deadline, notify in advance
  • Plan to take enough time to do a proper job on editing, revising, proofreading, etc.
• Be realistic
  • Editors and publishers will not be hurried, so allow lots of time
  • E/P are too busy to do your work for you (index, checking bibliographic refs, etc.)
  • E/P are under their own stresses, so be forgiving when they fail to meet their deadlines
  • Nevertheless, follow up if you feel you are being ignored
• Be a generous colleague
  • Involvement in a scholarly discipline is a two-way street
  • Help other scholars at every opportunity