It’s easier to get started on a project with a good start on getting started. Getting one foot in the door is crucial for anyone trying to make it into the guarded world of academia, a world historically shaped by exclusivity and discrimination, and grants are that...
As an author, making the decision to self-publish a book is a huge commitment, both in terms of time and resources. But making the decision to hire an editor for that project can be at least as big a commitment—maybe even more so. Although authors might need less...
Go directly to the Big Five, do not pass GO, who’s to say on the two hundred dollars. Introduction For over sixty years, publishing has increasingly evolved into a business dominated by monopolies. Smaller bookstores have often been put out of business or absorbed...
Buyer be aware of how Amazon operates with readers. It’s easy to forget, or even be entirely ignorant of, the fact that the great online marketplace that is Amazon began as an online bookseller in 1995. But even though it has spread its trades into a multitude of...
A successful author will have a wealth of knowledge and experience in many different parts of the publishing process—from submission and peer review to copy editing. All too often, though, once an author’s work is accepted for publication, the author might then not...
If you’re a millennial, you probably used SparkNotes at some point in high school to help summarize a book for English class. I fully admit that I tried my best to get through Jane Eyre, but Charlotte Bronte and I do not agree on writing style and pacing. The...
