This subseries contains outlines, proposals, notes, typescripts, correspondence with publishers, and research materials primarily for unpublished book projects. The only published book represented in this subseries is the Self-Conscious Novel: Artifice in Fiction from Joyce to Pynchon.

One project, Media Literacy in the Digital Age, was a work in progress for almost five years. It began in about 1992 with a proposal entitled, Desperately Seeking TV Guidance. Stonehill reshaped the concept during 1994-1996 and prepared various book proposals that entitled: What to Watch For; Screen Smarts; Mapping the Media; Visual Literacy: Making Sense of the Media Explosion; Campaign for Media Literacy; and The Media Literacy Movement. The project evolved until a manuscript entitled, Media Literacy in the Digital Age was accepted by the University of Texas Press and a publishing contract signed in 1997. Brian Stonehill was working on revisions to the manuscript at the time of his death.

To accompany various versions of the book, Stonehill also worked on two CD-ROM versions entitled, Screen Smarts and House of Visual Literacy (which was meant to accompany the book, What to Watch For). Planning materials for these projects is located in Subseries 6.5. Multimedia Projects. In addition, he also developed a television show entitled What to Watch For. Materials relating to the television project are located in Subseries 6.7. Television and Radio Projects and Subseries 8.2. Videotapes.

Another book project that he was working on before his death was High Definition. The first chapter of this manuscript was published in 1998, posthumously in SWIL, a Pomona College publication, which is located in this subseries.

This subseries is arranged alphabetically by title.