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Get Unstuck! Productivity Coaching from The Professor Is In

By Karen Kelsky | March 11, 2016

by Kellee Weinhold Kellee Weinhold is the TPII expert in charge of live Skype Interview Interventions, Job Talk Interventions, Campus Visit Interventions, the UNSTUCK writing coaching program, and technology. It’s that time in the Academic Life … [Read more...] about Get Unstuck! Productivity Coaching from The Professor Is In

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Publishing Issues, Shame, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Writing

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

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!

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Book Proposals and Contracts, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Build Your Tenure File, How To Choose and Manage Recommenders, How To Do Conferences, How to Get Grants and Fellowships, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, How To Write CVs, International Perspectives, Intersectional Analyses, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Mental Illness and Academia, Negotiating Offers, Ph.D. Poverty, Post-Ac Job Search, Postdoc Issues, Promote Yourself!, Publishing Issues, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Resumes & Postac Docs, Shame, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Teaching and Research Statements, Teaching Portfolios, Tenure--How To Get It, The Campus Visit, What Not To Wear, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Writing, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia, Your Second and Third Jobs

Ask the Post-Acs: “What happens to my scholarly work after the transition?”

By Karen Kelsky | February 24, 2015

Occasionally the TPII Post-Ac Consultants put their heads together to respond to a particularly compelling question that arises in the course of their consultations with post-ac clients.  Today, they share their thoughts on the question of publishing … [Read more...] about Ask the Post-Acs: “What happens to my scholarly work after the transition?”

Filed Under: Post-Ac Job Search, Publishing Issues, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

Framing Your Freelance Experience on the Academic Job Market – Fruscione #postac post

By Karen Kelsky | February 2, 2015

by Joe Fruscione After my most recent piece on academic editing, a reader asked a valuable question: Can anyone comment on the fear that establishing a website advertising editing services will negatively affect your chances of getting a … [Read more...] about Framing Your Freelance Experience on the Academic Job Market – Fruscione #postac post

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Post-Ac Job Search, Publishing Issues, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Shame

The Job of an Academic Editor: Part 2 (Fruscione #postac post)

By Karen Kelsky | January 12, 2015

by Joseph Fruscione In the previous piece, I talked with a few fellow post- or alt-ac editors about the kinds of work we do with academic clients. Some (like Margy Thomas Horton) offer a variety of services, whereas others (like Annemarie Perez or … [Read more...] about The Job of an Academic Editor: Part 2 (Fruscione #postac post)

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Post-Ac Job Search, Publishing Issues, Quitting--An Excellent Option

The Job of an Academic Editor: Part 1 (Fruscione #Postac Post)

By Karen Kelsky | January 5, 2015

by Joseph Fruscione I've written previously about the life of an academic editor.  In previous installments, I wrote about developmental and STEM editing opportunities. With a hat-tip to Jo VanEvery for the suggestion, I’m focusing today on … [Read more...] about The Job of an Academic Editor: Part 1 (Fruscione #Postac Post)

Filed Under: Post-Ac Job Search, Publishing Issues, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Writing

Eight Tips on Writing Efficiently while Overloaded with Teaching, Service and Kids (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | June 10, 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 Steve Engler responded with this account of writing a book while teaching … [Read more...] about Eight Tips on Writing Efficiently while Overloaded with Teaching, Service and Kids (A Guest Post)

Filed Under: How To Build Your Tenure File, Publishing Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Writing, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

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