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Book Proposals and Contracts

Schadenfreude: An Interview with Rebecca Schuman

By Karen Kelsky | February 6, 2017

I'm delighted to feature an interview today with Rebecca Schuman, about her new memoir, Schadenfreude, A Love Story: Me, the Germans, and 20 Years of Attempted Transformations, Unfortunate Miscommunications, and Humiliating Situations That Only They … [Read more...] about Schadenfreude: An Interview with Rebecca Schuman

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Book Proposals and Contracts, Post-Ac Job Search, Promote Yourself!, Publishing Issues

My Top Five Tips for Turning Your Dissertation Into a Book–A Special Request Post

By Karen Kelsky | February 26, 2016

This is a repost from 2011. Today is another Special Request Post.  This one is from Maria, who asks, do I have a template (like my Foolproof Grant Template) for turning a dissertation into a book? No, Maria, I do not.  The process of turning the … [Read more...] about My Top Five Tips for Turning Your Dissertation Into a Book–A Special Request Post

Filed Under: Book Proposals and Contracts, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Publishing Issues, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It, Writing Tagged With: advice for making my dissertation into a book, how to write a monograph, how to write an academic book, turning your dissertation into a book

A Big Week at The Professor Is In: My Book Comes Out!

By Karen Kelsky | August 7, 2015

The day finally arrived!   On Tuesday the book came out and The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. into a Job was officially launched onto the world. 480 pages, half of it newly updated and revised versions of the most … [Read more...] about A Big Week at The Professor Is In: My Book Comes Out!

Filed Under: Adjunct Issues, Book Proposals and Contracts, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, How To Write CVs, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

How To Write A Book Proposal

By Karen Kelsky | July 2, 2015

You all know that the book proposal is the cornerstone to a successful tenure track career in most areas of the humanities and social sciences. Sure, some parts of psychology and economics and other fields are not book-based, but basically, the law … [Read more...] about How To Write A Book Proposal

Filed Under: Book Proposals and Contracts, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Promote Yourself!, Publishing Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It Tagged With: how to sell an academic book, how to write an academic book proposal, humanities book proposal, selling an academic book, writing for an academic press

How To Pitch Your Book to an Editor at a Conference

By Karen Kelsky | May 29, 2015

This week the Daily Nous website has a marvelous post, Answers From Academic Publishers, devoted to advice on publishing an academic monograph solicited from actual editors from Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, Routledge, and other major presses.  It has an … [Read more...] about How To Pitch Your Book to an Editor at a Conference

Filed Under: Book Proposals and Contracts, How To Build Your Tenure File, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Promote Yourself!, Publishing Issues, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It Tagged With: Advice for first time authors, How to get a book contract, Pitching a book to an editor

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By Karen Kelsky | April 10, 2015

Love the blog? Now get it in handy book form--only $11.40!  Available for pre-order now--comes out August 4! Buy it at all these places! It also makes a great gift for all those struggling grad students in your life! For bulk orders for use … [Read more...] about Buy My Book!

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The Status of the Press Matters, Still!

By Karen Kelsky | November 28, 2014

A debate has simmered on the comment thread to my post, Does the Status of the Press Matter, in recent weeks, on the question: is Palgrave MacMillan a press with high enough status for a US R1 tenure case?  My position has always been, based on my … [Read more...] about The Status of the Press Matters, Still!

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Book Proposals and Contracts, How To Build Your Tenure File, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It

Grad Student Grandiosity

By Karen Kelsky | August 15, 2014

Grad students tend to veer between two extremes: I know nothing and I know everything.  The latter position is an over-compensatory response to fear of the former. As you gain experience you find a middle ground of calm confidence. However, at the … [Read more...] about Grad Student Grandiosity

Filed Under: Book Proposals and Contracts, Graduate Student Concerns, How to Get Grants and Fellowships, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Promote Yourself!, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Writing

Writing Your Book While Juggling Teaching and Kids (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | June 3, 2013

A reader wrote asking for a post on how to write a book while working at a teaching-intensive university.  I put out a request for a guest post on the subject on Facebook, and Katherine Vukadin responded with this account of writing a book while … [Read more...] about Writing Your Book While Juggling Teaching and Kids (A Guest Post)

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Does the Status of the Press Matter?

By Karen Kelsky | September 21, 2012

Today’s post is in response to a reader who wrote in asking, “does the status of the press matter when seeking to publish your book?” Sometimes I am surprised by what people ask me, and this is one of those times. Does anyone not know the answer to … [Read more...] about Does the Status of the Press Matter?

Filed Under: Book Proposals and Contracts, How To Build Your Tenure File, Publishing Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

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