How authors can create legible interdisciplinary texts that resonate with varied readers across fields, backgrounds, and communities.
editing resources
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.
Ideas on Fire Guide to the 2024 ACES Society for Editing VCon
Come on by the Ideas on Fire booth and check out our guide for the 2024 ACES Society for Editing VCon conference!
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.
Creating a Social Justice-Focused Academic Journal Style Guide
How faculty journal editors can create a journal style guide that embodies the politics, ethics, and vision of their journal.
Jessica Bissett Perea on Indigenous Transformations in Academic Publishing
Cathy Hannabach interviews Dena’ina musician-scholar Jessica Bissett Perea about transforming the academic publishing pipeline by centering Indigenous worldviews.
Christen A. Smith, Dána-Ain Davis, and Sameena Mulla on Cite Black Women
Cathy Hannabach interviews Christen A. Smith, Dána-Ain Davis, and Sameena Mulla about the Cite Black Women movement.