I’ve published three books with university presses in my career and spent a lot of time at this blog promoting the work of American historians who publish with university presses. This is why I am happy to call your attention...
I am working on a book for a university press right now. I didn’t really think about how COVID-19 would effect my work on this project until I read Rachel Toor’s recent piece at The Chronicle of Higher Education. Here is...
Congrats to Jon Boyd and the gang at IVP Academic. Here is the press release: InterVarsity Press (IVP) is pleased to announce that IVP Academic has been approved as an affiliate member in the Association of University Presses. As the...
Great stuff here from Rachel Toor at The Chronicle of Education. If you are making a first pitch to a university press you need to read her piece, “What to Say (and Not to Say) in Query Letters to Book Editors.”...
Sarah Bond of the University of Iowa History Department and Kevin Gannon (aka “The Tattooed Prof”) of the Grandview University History Department help junior faculty decide if they should write for public audiences. I am glad to see the reference...
How do authors measure the success of their books? Rachel Toor asks this question in a very interesting piece at The Chronicle of Higher Education. Given my history in publishing, people often ask me for help with their book projects. One...
Bible Translation team: Shanghai, circa 1900 Still waiting on the copy-editing. In the meantime, Laurie Maffly-Kipp of Washington University in St. Louis has provided a very kind blurb to go along with the previous blurbs from Peggy Bendroth and Mark...
I continue to be in a state of limbo on the American Bible Society book. I am waiting for the good folks at Oxford University Press to finish the copy-editing process so that I can make some final changes to...
There are a lot of ways to make money from writing books, but for many of us who publish monographs with university presses, royalties are not one of them. So far my name is on the cover of four books–two...
By now many of you may have read Sarah Kendzior’s piece at the Chronicle of Higher Education’s new Vitae website entitled “What’s the Point of Academic Publishing.” She echoes what is these days a fairly common lament about scholarly publishing and...
