Want to get some context for this post? Click hereIt has been a horrible writing week–absolutely horrible.  As I have written in previous posts I have been too busy with other personal and professional responsibilities to work on the ABS project,...
“Writing Op-Eds” [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJoF4JdXnlM]...
Over at Jacksonian America, Mark Cheathem offers some good advice on how to work with your editor: 1. Heed their advice2. Treat them with respect3. Communicate Read the entire post here....
As some of my readers know, I have occasionally done some writing for the History News Service, a syndicate of historians who bring historical perspectives to current events. Those interested in some of my past op-eds for HNS can find...
Daniel Dekker identifies “10 Awful Truths About Book Publishing.” They are: 1. The number of books being published in the U.S. has exploded.2. Book industry sales are declining, despite the explosion of books published.3. Average book sales are shockingly small,...
Once again, Historians TV covered the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. Check out AHA Today for links to some of the featured sessions and interviews. I especially enjoyed this session on how to be an effective lecturer and...
Here is a short piece by George Guthrie that all authors who are Christians should read. A taste: In the life of an author of books there comes such a moment on the brink of a book’s release. The frantic...
Dan Reid of InterVarsity Press has some informative thoughts about how authors and potential authors can establish a “publishing platform” for their books. Here is a taste: Marketers in publishing houses today habitually ask, “What’s the author’s platform?” What’s the...
Do several articles in peer-review journals fit the bill? Or do you need to have published a book? According to this study by the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California-Berkeley, it all depends on your […]
I am very thankful that people are reading The Way of Improvement Leads Home, especially because books published by university presses, especially first books published by university presses, are not often read. I was reminded of this after reading Peter...
Is anyone out there shopping a first book manuscript? Perhaps you are working the book exhibit at the AHA this weekend. If so, then check out Randall Stephens’s interview with Susan Ferber, an executive editor in history at Oxford University...
