Taking a Fresh Approach

Building on SAGE Publications' tradition of publishing high-quality scholarly works for more than 35 years, we are concentrating our efforts on providing upper-level undergraduate and graduate textbooks, handbooks, and professional books. Our Books Division also includes the SAGE Reference program, which publishes encyclopedias and other reference works, and the Pine Forge Press imprint, which focuses on undergraduate textbooks in sociology. SAGE currently publishes nearly 500 titles per year worldwide across its imprints, and has over 3,000 titles in print.
SAGE is one of the few remaining independent publishers. We are a publisher, first and foremost. Our goal is to publish books that offer innovative teaching solutions, approaches, and perspectives to the disciplines that we serve. While we are firmly guided by the needs of our market, we are driven to publish books that contribute to your students' learning experience, to your colleagues, and to the field.

The Benefits of Publishing with SAGE

At SAGE we recognize that our authors and editors are among our most important assets, and we are committed to developing strong and flexible partnership which offers the following benefits:

• Thorough evaluation of proposals and sample material, with constructive feedback provided by experienced editors and peer reviews
• Involvement and support from your SAGE team throughout the writing and development process
• Consultation on design, production, and marketing issues
• High quality book production
• Global promotion, marketing, sales, and distribution

Personal Attention

The environment at SAGE is personal and inviting. Placing a high value on the relationship with our authors, we work diligently to form strong publishing partnerships. Our acquisitions editors are among the best in their respective fields, and each has many years experience (see below to learn more about our editorial team). Eager to share their knowledge and publishing expertise, they'll work closely with you—from signing to sales—to ensure that your book reaches the highest level of success. With your acquisitions editor in the lead, the editorial, production, and marketing teams will work together to keep you informed and involved at each stage of the publishing process.

Production Excellence

Our production team sets the highest standards for editing, design, and page layout—and they will produce your book in a timely manner. Taking full advantage of new technologies, our streamlined production process allows us to provide one of the most competitive production schedules in the industry. You'll find that our systems remain flexible and responsive to the needs of each individual project. Many leading authors rely on SAGE to publish their works with accuracy and efficiency.

Strategic Marketing and Sales

We're always looking for ways to enhance our marketing practices. By employing a multichannel marketing and sales strategy through targeted direct-marketing efforts—including direct mail, electronic marketing, telemarketing and sales, advertising, book review publicity, and representation at professional association meetings/conventions—as well as cooperative marketing and sales with online retailers, bookstores, and book wholesalers, your book will receive maximum exposure to all appropriate audiences. Since we're a global company, you'll have the advantage of international marketing and sales efforts through our offices in the U.K. and India.

Our strong journal program complements our book publishing endeavors.

Please forward your proposal to the appropriate editor. A list of editors, their subject areas, telephone extensions, and email addresses follows.

SAGE Publications, Inc.
2455 Teller Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91320
Phone: (805) 499-0721
Fax: (805) 499-0871

Author Permissions

SAGE Publications has provided forms and information that will assist you in obtaining  the necessary permissions to publish your manuscript.

Permission Guidelines

Quick Reference Guides

Plagiarism, Defamation & Privacy Quick-Guide
Fair Use Quick-Guide

Permission Request Forms

Permission Request Form to Reprint or Adapt
Permission Request Form for Interview Release
Permission Request Form for Visual Likeness

Permissions Log

SAGE Permissions Log Template
SAGE Permissions Log Guidelines

Acquisition Editors

Todd Armstrong
todd.armstrong@sagepub.com
(415) 512-5221
Todd is Senior Acquisitions Editor for Speech and Human Communication, Journalism and Mass Communication, and Media Studies. Todd has been in higher education and academic publishing since 1986 and has worked in every aspect of the business (acquisitions, management, marketing, sales, and production). Prior to joining SAGE, he was the communication & media studies editor for Wadsworth, and then a director of marketing & publicity for McGraw-Hill.

Christine Cardone
christine.cardone@sagepub.com
(805) 300-5866
Chris is Senior Acquisitions Editor for SAGE’s Psychology book list. Chris launched her editorial career at Macmillan College Publishing in 1987 as an Acquisitions Editor for criminal justice, sociology and psychology where she published leading textbooks in their fields. In the 1990s, Chris partnered with Peregrine Publishers and Pearson Education to launch “The Psychology Place” and acquired new web-based products that helped to change the learning landscape in harnessing new technologies. Before coming to SAGE in September 2009, Chris was Executive Editor for Psychology at Blackwell Publishing (subsequently renamed Wiley-Blackwell) for six years, where she acquired text, reference, and award-winning academic trade books. With over 20 years experience in psychology. Chris is eager to partner with authors to continue SAGE’s tradition of publishing innovative and high-quality works.

Lisa Cuevas Shaw
lisa.shaw@sagepub.com
(805) 410-7186
Lisa is Executive Editor with management responsibilities over SAGE's Business, Management, Marketing, and Public Administration book programs and the Pine Forge Press (Sociology) program. In addition to establishing and guiding plans for the growth and development of these programs, Lisa acquires texts for Business, Management, and Public Administration. Having earned her graduate degree in Business Administration, with an emphasis on Management and Organizational Behavior, Lisa is well-positioned to leverage her educational background with her publishing experience to develop quality course materials for this broad-ranging curriculum. Lisa has been in higher education publishing for more than 13 years, starting her career in journals production, moving to journals acquisitions, and most recently heading up SAGE's hallmark program in Research Methods and Evaluation.

Jim Brace-Thompson
jbt@sagepub.com
(805) 410-7582
Jim is Senior Acquisitions Editor for SAGE Reference. Jim's publishing career started in 1983 with a part-time job at the University of Massachusetts Press while in graduate school. He subsequently attended the Radcliffe Publishing Procedures program at Harvard University and spent 14 years in college publishing with Brooks/Cole (8 years in sales and marketing; 6 as Acquisitions Editor in psychology). He came to SAGE in 1998 as Senior Acquisitions Editor for psychology, family studies, and gerontology. Starting in 2006, he moved to the SAGE Reference division to acquire major reference works (primarily multi-volume encyclopedias) in all traditional SAGE fields within the social and behavioral sciences, education, management, and communication and also will be expanding the reference list into scientific, technical and medical fields.

Kassie Graves
kassie.graves@sagepub.com
(805) 410-7545
Kassie is the Acquisitions Editor for SAGE's book program in the Human Services (including social work and counseling). She originally joined SAGE in 1995 in Marketing, but then joined the Acquisitions Team from 1997-1999, where she worked on signing and developing books in the counseling and interpersonal violence lists. After leaving to pursue an advanced degree and start her own children's book publishing company, she recently rejoined SAGE in 2006.

Vicki Knight
vicki.knight@sagepub.com
(831) 641-0435
Vicki is Senior Acquisitions Editor for Research Methods and Statistics in the social and behavioral sciences. With over 25 years of innovative publishing experience in both Acquisitions and Development, Vicki is eager to work with teachers and researchers who are committed to their vision and to developing successful texts. Initially, Vicki worked in all areas of Education, especially in Special Education, as well as counseling and Speech Pathology and Audiology. In the past 18 years, Vicki was Publisher & Executive Editor for Psychology & Education with Brooks/Cole (subsequently renamed Wadsworth/Thomson).

Diane McDaniel
diane.mcdaniel@sagepub.com
(805) 410-7759
Diane is Executive Editor for the Education and Evaluation lists. She publishes books for courses in preK-12 Teacher Education and Educational Administration and Leadership. She also publishes titles in Evaluation for the social and behavioral sciences. As part of the Books Editorial management team, Diane also manages editors in counseling & social work, and communication & media studies. Diane has been in higher education publishing since 1995, working as a college textbook sales representative before becoming an acquisitions editor. Prior to joining SAGE, Diane worked for Prentice Hall, John Wiley & Sons, and Glencoe/McGraw-Hill.

David Repetto
david.repetto@sagepub.com
(805) 410-7245
David is the Senior Acquisitions Editor for Pine Forge Press, the Sociology list at SAGE.  He joined SAGE in 2008 after twelve years at Pearson Education, where he was a sales manager actively selling in the Sociology market for six years. Subsequently, he served as a Senior Editor for Allyn & Bacon’s Criminal Justice and Anthropology titles and later for Prentice Hall and Longman’s Philosophy and Religion lists.

Jerry Westby
jerry.westby@sagepub.com
(805) 410-7578
Jerry Westby is Publisher whose responsibilities include acquiring and managing titles in Criminology and Criminal Justice, as well as managing select Pine Forge Sociology titles. With over 25 years of successful editorial experience in the educational publishing industry developing books, ancillaries, online and multimedia products, Jerry is eager to work with authors to continue the tradition of first-class, innovative offerings from SAGE and Pine Forge Press.

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