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Publishing Your First Book: A Seminar for Pre-Tenure Faculty: The Authors’ Perspectives
January 19, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
This is the second of three linked events for Humanities scholars writing monographs. Please also see:
December 8, 2022 | Publishing Your First Book: The Presses’ Perspectives
February 21, 2023 | A Workshop on Book Proposals
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You are preparing your “tenure book,” and you have questions about the publication process. When should you approach editors, and how? Do you really need a book proposal? Should you go the open-access route? How long do things take, from submitted complete manuscript to book-in-print? What obstacles are common at various stages of the process? And what can you, the author, do to bring your first-book odyssey to a happy (and timely) conclusion?
This informal session is designed for pre-tenure faculty members who are preparing to publish their first peer-reviewed research monograph. Bring your questions about writing and revising, pitches and proposals, editors and presses, peer review and production—anything!
Panelists will share their experiences working with academic presses such as Bloomsbury, Brill, California, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Oxford, Princeton, Routledge, Stanford, and UBC, as well as their advice on:
– Acquisitions editors: turning gatekeepers into advocates
– Peer review: writing the “author response” to referee reports
– The contract: how to read—and modify—boilerplate
– Book production: timing and quality control considerations
– Money: Subventions and financing for research monographs
– Authorhood: What to do when the book’s nearly—and finally—out
– Peer review: writing the “author response” to referee reports
– The contract: how to read—and modify—boilerplate
– Book production: timing and quality control considerations
– Money: Subventions and financing for research monographs
– Authorhood: What to do when the book’s nearly—and finally—out
This free event will be held in-person at 1873 East Mall, Vancouver BC, Room 225, and online and is open to current UBC faculty and graduate students in all fields and disciplines but will focus on considerations for scholars working in the humanities and social sciences. Registration is required, and lunch will be provided to participants (please indicate any food restrictions.)
This event is sponsored by the UBC Public Humanities Hub and the UBC Dean of Arts Office. Part of the PHH Public Scholarship Series.
