Create compelling book descriptions, build your author platform, and leverage online and offline marketing tactics for your first book.
Resources: editing
Join us for Publishing in a Series for Your First Book
Heart from book series editors and authors about how to pitch effectively to series editors, and leverage series affiliation for visibility.
Join us for Navigating Peer Review on Your First Book
Learn how to decode reviewer comments, respond strategically to critiques, and revise effectively for your first book.
Join us for Working Productively with an Editorial Team
Learn to work with editorial team, navigate feedback, and manage timelines when publishing your book with a university press
Balancing Interdisciplinarity and Legibility
How authors can create legible interdisciplinary texts that resonate with varied readers across fields, backgrounds, and communities.
What to Do with a Copyedited Manuscript
Learn how to best navigate copyedits on your manuscript and how to create the final draft you’ll send to the publisher or journal.
What to Do with Developmental Edits
How authors can respond to developmental edits and improve their scholarly manuscripts for publication.
What to Do When You Get a Scholarly Book Contract
Next steps for authors after receiving a scholarly book contract, including manuscript preparation and marketing.
Budgeting for Editing and Indexing on Books and Articles
How interdisciplinary scholars can best budget for editing and indexing on their books and journal articles.
Editing as Worldmaking: Critical Generosity in Editorial Practice
Cathy Hannabach’s keynote address on how building critical generosity into editorial practice is a key way we build the worlds we want to inhabit.
Crisis Standards of Peer Review
Addressing the peer review crisis with a more manageable process for reviewers, journal editors, and authors alike.
Flexible Plans for Journal Article Publishing
Successful journal article publishing requires a plan that can adapt to changing circumstances and needs. Here’s how to create one.