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History
Chicago Review Press is an independent company founded in 1973. Over the years we have grown into a dynamic midsize publisher with more than 300 titles of national interest, currently bringing out about 50 new titles yearly under four imprints: Chicago Review Press, Lawrence Hill Books, A Cappella, and Zephyr Press. Publishers Weekly recently named Chicago Review Press the fifth fastest growing small press in the United States (PW, March 4, 2002).
Chicago Review Press, Inc. is the parent company of Independent Publishers Group (IPG). Established in 1971, IPG was the first organization specifically created to market titles from independent presses to the book trade. Chicago Review Press, Inc. acquired Independent Publishers Group in 1987. With consistent growth each year, IPG's success has come from supporting and encouraging the growth of its client publishers throughout the United States and worldwide. IPG now represents more than 300 publishers and is the third-largest book distributor in the United States. All Chicago Review Press titles are distributed and publicized by IPG.
Imprints
 Chicago Review Press publishes general nonfiction, including how-to, parenting, biography/memoir, and travel. Outstanding performers over the years have been Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices, by William Gurstelle, our gang memoirs, My Bloody Life and Once a King, Always a King, by Reymundo Sanchez, and our oddball travel series, including Oddball Illinois, Oddball Florida, Oddball Texas, and others, by Jerome Pohlen.
Chicago Review Press also publishes an award-winning line of children's activity books for young people who want more depth and substance than is usually found in children's nonfiction. Topics range from art and architecture to math, science, history, and literature.
Lawrence Hill Books specializes in mostly nonfiction on topics of African American and Latino interest, progressive politics, civil and human rights, and feminism. Lawrence Hill classics include Assata: An Autobiography, by Assata Shakur, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, by Alfred W. McCoy, and They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby, by Paul Findley.
* A Cappella is a publisher of music and film books, including the extremely well reviewed Cuba and Its Music, by Ned Sublette, Let's Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies, by Pamela Des Barres, and Flickipedia: Perfect Films for Every Occasion, Holiday, Mood, Ordeal, and Whim by Michael Atkinson and Laurel Shifrin.
Zephyr Press publishes education resources for teachers that help them better understand how kids learn and how they can be more effective in the classroom, focusing on gifted education and the latest research on multiple intelligences and brain-compatible learning.
Manuscript Submission Guidelines
If you would like to submit a book proposal to Chicago Review Press, Lawrence Hill Books, A Cappella, or Zephyr Press, please write to us under the name of the appropriate imprint at 814 N. Franklin, Chicago IL 60610. Please remember that we do not publish original fiction or poetry, and we very rarely publish inspirational or self-help books. We will not accept proposals by e-mail unless you have cleared this method with the appropriate acquisitions editor.
Submit your proposal by first-class mail. Enclose a cover letter describing your book and your credentials. If you want to include a portion of your manuscript, please send no more than the table of contents and 1–2 sample chapters (typed, double-spaced, and paginated). Make certain that the author's name, address, and phone number appear on the first page of the manuscript.
Also, please provide the following information:
Audience/Market. For what audience is the book written? Are there possibilities for special sales of your book to organizations and institutions? If so, which ones?
Competition. Indicate competing titles. How will your book be superior to or different from them?
Manuscript Length and Electronic Submission. What is the estimated length of the proposed manuscript, printed double-spaced on 8½” x 11” paper? We assume that you will prepare your manuscript on a computer and that you will submit a computer disk along with your printed text. Please tell us what word processing program and version number you use.
Date of Completion. Indicate the date by which you expect to have a completed manuscript.
If you would like us to reply and return your material, please provide us with a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Because we receive more queries and manuscripts than we can process promptly, please allow eight to ten weeks for our response.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable as long as they are so identified. Contact us immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere for publication.
If you would like us to send you our current catalog, please send a 9” x 12” self-addressed, stamped envelope with postage valued at $3.
Personnel
Cynthia Sherry, Publisher
Allison Felus, Managing Editor
Yuval Taylor, Senior Editor
Susan Bradanini Betz, Senior Editor
Jerome Pohlen, Senior Editor
Lisa Reardon, Developmental Editor
Michelle Schoob, Editor
Devon Freeny, Editor
Jon Hahn, Production Artist
Mary Kravenas, Sales and Marketing Coordinator
Job Openings
No job openings at this time.
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