You Want to Write for the Public, but About What?
iStock By Katie Rose Guest Pryal Whenever I am approached by academics who want to make the transition from scholarly to public writing, they always ask me the…
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Can Amazon Finally Crack the Bestseller Code?
Subscribe As the last decade concluded, book publishers breathed a sigh of relief. The 2010s were characterized by a series of Amazon-related shock waves—the…
You Want to Write for the Public, but About What?
How do you take your academic expertise and turn it into something that you, and your public, will want to read? You can write about your research — but not…
What to Say (and Not to Say) in Query Letters to Book Editors
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Opinion | How Professors Help Rip Off Students
How Professors Rip Off Students Books are too expensive. Contributing Opinion Writer As the semester ends, instructors at universities and community colleges…
Only Books | Inside Higher Ed
We should talk more about books. Books should more frequently show up as the touchstones of our conversations. Books should be the foundations in which we build…
Essay on plagiarism | Inside Higher Ed
A few years back, I noticed what looked like a potentially interesting article on the table of contents page of an open-access scholarly journal. I attempted to…
Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019
The Times’s staff critics give their choices of the best fiction and nonfiction works of the year. Credit... Tony Cenicola/The New York Times In the literary…
College bookstores group opposes Cengage-McGraw merger | Inside Higher Ed
College bookstores have joined the growing list of opponents to the planned merger of two major academic publishers: Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education. The…
10 Questions Every Academic Should Ask Before Writing for the Public
What to Know When You Approach Book Editors at a Conference
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In Praise of University Presses | Inside Higher Ed
All too often I hear a couple of falsehoods slung around carelessly. Nobody reads scholarly books because they’re self-indulgent and impenetrable, used only for…
Four variables to consider when choosing a publisher (opinion) | Inside Higher Ed
If you are in the humanities or social sciences, you may regard a monograph or book, especially your first one, as a milestone in your career. Let’s assume that…
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Jack Reacher Is Still Restless. But His Creator Has Settled Down.
Continue reading the main story The novelist Lee Child at the Vedauwoo Recreation Area outside Laramie, Wyo., recently. Child, who was born in England, bought a…
Public Writing and the Junior Scholar
Lower-tier liberal-arts colleges, teaching-oriented universities, and community colleges — where the vast majority of academic jobs are found — have long…
On a Greek Island, a Bookstore With Some Mythology of Its Own
Continue reading the main story Books Territory Over the last 15 years, as cruise-ship hoards and souvenir schlock have overrun the village of Oia on…
The lost art of editing
A meeting of the board of directors at Faber, March 1944. From left to right TS Eliot, Morley Kennedy, Geoffrey Faber, WJ Crawley, Miss CB Sheldon and Richard…
Finding Writing Energy | Inside Higher Ed
Each year of my three years of graduate study in creative writing I wrote approximately 100,000 words of original fiction, a total of over 300,000 words. None…
The Dotcom Bust Nearly Killed This Silicon Valley Publisher, but Instead It Reinvented Its Business Model and Now It's Thriving
When Laura Baldwin arrived at O'Reilly Media in 2001 as Chief Financial Officer, she was well equipped for the job. She previously held the same position at…
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