What makes for a great academic book proposal? Learn what publishers looking for and how to make your proposal stand out from the crowd.
Posts by Cathy Hannabach
Cathy Hannabach is the founder and CEO of Ideas on Fire as well as the host of the Imagine Otherwise podcast.
Building Your Personal Academic Website
How to build a personal academic website that showcases your work, invites exciting opportunities, and shows off your accomplishments.
Mimi Khúc and Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis on Asian American Mental Health Activism
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Mimi Khúc and Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis about Asian American publishing and disability activism.
Building a Strong Book Structure
How to build a strong and compelling book structure that ties all your ideas together into a cohesive whole.
How to Be a Great Podcast Guest
How to best prepare for your interview, set up your recording space, ensure good sound quality, engage with your interviewer, and get the word out.
Tools and Apps for Organizing Research Materials
Academics accumulate tons of documents, articles, books, pdfs, videos, images, and audio files during our research. Here’s how to keep track of it all.
Using Social Media to Market Your Book
Social media is a great way to do academic book promotion. Here’s how to create a social media plan that fits your resources, time, and goals for your book.
Building Your Author Platform
How to identify your academic book’s audience and build an author platform that gets your book noticed, purchased, and engaged by that audience.
Minal Hajratwala on How to Write Like a Unicorn
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Minal Hajratwala about writing coaching, queer postcolonial publishing, and how to “write like a unicorn.”