TIFU … or 11 years ago, and I survived. So I promised that my first post in this series would be of a piece of work with which I now disagree. It is – it is about my first book … Continue reading
25 Dec 2016
by Laura Sjoberg
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Tag Archives: publishing
31 Mar 2016
by Laura Sjoberg
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What to Look for In a Publisher (and a Contract)
(cross-posted at Bombs and Dollars) About a week ago, I posted about book publishing in academia. I’ve gotten responses from a number of people, both interested in more information and happy for the first post. If its useful to even one … Continue reading
26 Mar 2016
by Laura Sjoberg
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The Ugly Truth(s) About Book Publishing
So a number of people at ISA asked me about the mechanics of book publishing, and how it differs from journal publishing. Since I’ve increasingly been thinking about turning this professional-development-advice-thing into a trade book, I figured this was the … Continue reading
18 Sep 2014
by Laura Sjoberg
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Taking Editing Seriously
When I first applied to edit a journal, it was in part about thinking that I would really enjoy some of the tasks – reading submissions and reviews, putting together issues, and engaging with cutting edge work in the field. … Continue reading
9 Jul 2014
by Laura Sjoberg
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Academic Careerism and Poker Strategy: WSOP Edition
One of my good friends from college, Andrew Brokos, is a professional poker player and poker coach (as Foucault82, follow him at @thinkingpoker on Twitter). He is playing this week in the World Series of Poker Main Event in Las … Continue reading
23 Jun 2014
by Laura Sjoberg
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The Hard Way #9: Be the CV You Want to See
I couldn’t have come up with a sillier title to this post, I realize, but it is an important point, so I figured I’d dedicate a post to it. The last thing that you want to happen to you is … Continue reading
24 May 2014
by Laura Sjoberg
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The Hard Way #7: It takes a village for academic publishing
If someone had told me that graduate school was the only time it would ever be someone’s job to read your work and provide advice on it, I would have spent a significantly longer amount of time in graduate school, … Continue reading
14 May 2014
by Laura Sjoberg
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The Hard Way #6: Anonymity and the Review Process
Wouldn’t it be great if this post were anonymous, and I could say everything that I think about anonymity in the review process? Maybe I will anyway. Here’s the caveat that I think makes me have something to offer here. I’ve published … Continue reading
7 May 2014
by Laura Sjoberg
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The Hard Way #5: Revising and Resubmitting
o, while I am not the foremost authority on this subject, I do have a fair amount of experience. In this post, I hope to give some advice both on revising and re-sending out an article that has been rejected, … Continue reading
5 May 2014
by Laura Sjoberg
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The Hard Way #4: Dealing with rejection (in publishing)
I am afraid the article has little to recommend. It is is general a very poor and incomplete overview of what is actually a very rich body of gender scholarship, given in weak scholarship, with low theoretical imagination, this is … Continue reading