Call for Authors and Editors
Approaches to Digital Game Studies is currently seeking proposal for monographs and edited collections organized around the analysis of a single genre of digital game. We define game genres broadly as either ludic, thematic or functional, or some combination thereof. Authors may work with taken-for-granted genres but are also encouraged to consider how specific assemblages of games are united by families of resemblance that may constitute a genre. And to keep in mind that books in the series need not be a holistic study of the history, development and contemporary morphology of a genre, though such a ludological approach is certainly one valid way to handle the subject. Others may seek to examine a specific element of a genre, i.e. masculinity in role-playing games, post-modern aesthetics of tower defense, or educational aspects of real-time strategy games.
Emerging and established scholars and scholars positioned within or outside of digital game studies are encouraged to discuss their ideas with the Series Editors.
To discuss a possible monograph or edited collection proposal, obtain additional information about the series, and/or review guidelines for proposing a book for the series, please contact the Series Editors at gamestudies.books(at)gmail.com.
The Proposal Process
All proposals for books in the series should start with an informal conversation with the Series Editors. They are best reached through email at gamestudies.books(@)gmail.com.
If the editors determine that your proposal would fit the series mandate, you will be asked to submit a formal proposal.
Proposals undergo peer-review by at least one member of the series Advisory Board and at least one area expert not affiliated with the series. The author of the proposal will be given an opportunity to revise the proposal and write a letter responding to the reviews. Based on their own assessment of the proposal and informed by the reviewers' feedback, the series editors will either recommend that Bloomsbury offer the author a contract or suggest revisions to the author.