Learn our step-by-step process for revising and turning your interdisciplinary dissertation into an interdisciplinary book–one that people will actually buy and read.
Ideas on Fire First Book Publishing Series
Join Ideas on Fire and acquisitions editors from leading scholarly presses for a free webinar series that guides you through critical stages of the academic publishing journey for first books.
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.
Promoting Your Book at Academic Conferences
Best practices for promoting your book at conferences, with tips on partnering with publishers, using social media, and networking.
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.
Getting Started with Image Permissions for Your Book
Image permissions can be overwhelming. Here are some guidelines to get you started as you illustrate your book.
Book Promotion for Introverted Scholars
Book promotion strategies, tips, and options that work with—rather than against—an introverted disposition.
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.
Why an Interdisciplinary Book Needs an Interdisciplinary Index
How an interdisciplinary index helps an author meet their goals, reach diverse audiences, and change the world for the better.
Building Community through Acknowledgments
How scholars can use acknowledgments pages to build community, recognize intellectual and affective labor, and strengthen genealogies.