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It’s summertime and the living is pretty…. Or, at least it should be! How can you have a remarkably productive summer and return to t...

Have you ever heard that quote: “Behind every successful man, there stands a woman”? I have often thought about that quote in relation to my...

Most academics I talk to this time of year are looking forward to summer, when classes are over, meetings are few and far between and we hav...

When I finished my dissertation, I knew I wanted to transform it into a book. I did not, however, know anything about the publishing pro...

The gatekeepers to academic book publishing are acquisitions editors that work at university and academic trade presses. Acquisitions editor...

So, you want to turn your dissertation into a book? Or, perhaps you want to write your first academic book on an entirely different subject...

Like many aspects of academic publishing, where you publish is often as important as what you publish. Thus, the decision of where to pub...