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Textbook Writing

Textbook Authoring Inspirations, Insights, and Innovations

Effective Organization Strategies for Developing a Textbook Chapter

Your Textbook Isn't Being Revised. Now What?

The Future of Textbooks

So You Want to Write a Textbook? Lessons Learned and Advice Sought

Creative Self-Help for Textbook Authors

Author Q&A: Writing and Developing Your College Textbook

10 Tips to Enhance Your Writing & Take the Stress Out of Polishing Your Work

Plan, Propose & Publish an Edited Book

Bringing Textbooks to Life: Strategies for Improving Student Engagement

Textbook Authoring: Time-tested Tricks of the Trade

Strategies to Make Your Textbook Workflow More Efficient

Textbook Authoring Basics, A Holistic Approach

Making it Stick: Incorporating Cognitive Science Research into Textbook Elements

Advancements in Accessibility = Opportunities for Authors

Tips for Writing an Effective Textbook: Developing Your Manuscript with Your Publisher

Educational Publishing In Your Discipline

Placement Matters! The Multimedia Principle

A SAMR Approach to Designing and Authoring Better Assessment Exercises

Textbook Author Roundtable Q&A

Writing and Revising: The 20-Year Evolution of a Textbook

Selecting A Successor to Write the Next Textbook Editions

Authoring Into Retirement: Too Much Invested to Quit?

The Business of Authoring

Joy Hakim: Textbooks Should Be Great Books!

Is Textbook Writing for You?

You Want to Write a Textbook? Here's How to Do It!

Get Your Stalled Writing Project Back on Track

Textbook Publishing

Connecting with a College Textbook Publisher in Changing Times

The Digital Book Report 2016

Tips for Writing an Effective Textbook: Developing Your Manuscript with Your Publisher

Digital Book Report 2015

Effect of Bankruptcies on Authors

How to Raise Funds for Your Book Idea with Crowdfunding

The Four Paths to Publishing

The Digital Book Report 2014

How to Publish Your Own Textbook

Getting the Best-Looking Book: Best Production Practices for Authors

Making the Most of the Author-Editor Relationship:  Insights from An Author & Editor

Contracts & Royalties

New Publisher Practices and the Effect on Royalties

Your Textbook Isn't Being Revised. Now What?

A Second Bite at the Apple: Getting Rights in Your Book Back

Royalties: The Devil is in the Details

Royalty Disputes: Legal Strategies in Pursuit of Information and Payments Due

The Anatomy of a Royalty Audit

The Life Cycle of a Textbook: Psychological and Legal Challenges

Wanna Get Away? Maybe Now You Can: Parting with Your Publisher

20 Tips and 20 Questions for Your Next Textbook Deal

Negotiating (or Renegotiating) Your Textbook Publishing Agreement: A Creative Focus on Business Terms

What is a Textbook Royalty Audit and How Do I Know If I Need One?

Textbook Contract Improvement Sessions

Contracts, Coauthors, and Other Mysteries

Contract Negotiation: E-books & E-rights

Don't Settle for a Publisher's Standard Contract: Terms You Can & Should Negotiate

Royalties: Are You Unknowingly Losing Money?

Royalty Q&A

The 10 Worst Legal Mistakes a Textbook or Academic Author Can Make

Taxes

The Business of Authoring

Taxes and Authors: What You Should Know in 2021

Copyright

A Crash Course in Creative Commons Licensing

Fair Use or Infringement in 2018, and Other Current Copyright Issues

How Authors Can Navigate Successfully Through Copyright-Related Issues

What Big Data Could Mean to You

Marketing

Social Media & Book Marketing Done Right & Done Wrong

How to Secure More Media For Your Book and Brand

Promoting Your Scholarship via Podcasting (It's Easier Than You Think!) - Part 1
Promoting Your Scholarship via Podcasting (It's Easier Than You Think!) - Part 2

Designing a Web Presence for Your Book (Beyond the Publisher Website) - Part 1
Designing a Web Presence for Your Book (Beyond the Publisher Website) - Part 2

32 Ways to Promote Your Book & Increase Sales

Marketing? You're Kidding Me! I'm an Academic! Marketing that Matters (Lessons from a Puffin) - Part 1
Marketing? You're Kidding Me! I'm an Academic! Marketing that Matters (Lessons from a Puffin) - Part 2

Six Strategies for Using Social Media to Promote Your Writing

The Art of Being Interviewed

Strategic & Straightforward Ways to Market - Starting Today

Go on the (Virtual) Road to Promote Your Book

The Three Phases of an Effective Book Marketing Campaign

Author Blogging: How to Attract Readers

What On Earth Will I Tweet About? Feeling Comfortable with Social Media as an Academic

BrandStoria: The Power of Your Unique Brand Story

Free Publicity: How to Create Podcasts & Digital Audio to Promote Your Book

How to Apply Mainstream Book Publicity Strategies to Academia

Tips & Strategies for Successfully Marketing Your Textbook

Designing Your Online Presence to Communicate Your Academic Brand

Supplements

Screencasting for Academic Authors: How to Create Instructional Media on a Budget

Texts Plus: Ancillary Materials & Companion Sites

How to Be a Successful Freelance Writer for College Textbook Publishers

Indexing

Get the Best Index For Your Book: Create a Collaborative Relationship With Your Indexer

Getting the Best Index for Your Book

Tips & Tricks for the Do-It-Yourself Indexer

Ebooks, Open Access & Self-Publishing

Academic Self-Publishing: No Longer a Pioneer's Path

Why You Should Consider 'Self-Publishing' and 'Print-on-Demand'

Innovations in Digital Book Technology: Brainstorming Textbook Applications

How to Publish Your Own Textbook

A Primer on Predatory Open-Access Scholarly Publishers

eBooks: An Overview

Opportunities for Authors from Emerging Hi-Ed Business Models

How Open Licensing Improved Our Textbook and Our Careers

Textbook Proposals

How Do Publishers Evaluate Book Proposals and Query Letters

How to Craft a Winning Textbook Proposal

Visuals and Illustrations

Draw Your Readers in: How-to’s of Digital Textbook Illustration

Show Me! The Art of Using Visual Elements to Enhance Your Manuscript

Screencasting for Academic Authors: How to Create Instructional Media on a Budget

Tips and Techniques for Enhancing Your Approach to Visuals

Academic Authoring

Academic Writing

Confronting the Anxiety of Academic Writing

Boldly Go: 5 Ways to Be a More Confident Academic

The Essential Actions of Academic Writing

How to Hook Your Audience

Why Your Journal Articles Are Confusing and How IMRaD Can Help

Drafting Scholarly Manuscripts--Quickly and Well

Revising Scholarly Manuscripts--Quickly and Well

An Editor's View From Journal Article Submission to Publication

Clear Academic Writing Across the Disciplines

Responding to Reviewers' Comments

Practical Strategies for Collaborating with Peers

Responding to Reviewers' Comments

Mentor, Coach, Supervisor: Collaborative Ways to Work With Writers

Show Me! The Art of Using Visual Elements to Enhance Your Manuscript

Make 'Collaboration' More Than a Buzzword

Demystifying the Literature Review

How to Structure and Write an Article Abstract

Get Your Stalled Writing Project Back on Track

Academic Writing for Social Good

Start Any Writing Project Easily With Docear

Choices, Time, Timing, and Consequences: Selecting Types of Academic Writing Spanning Your Career

Increase Your Writing Skills and Publishing Success: Tips, Tricks, and the Secret Sauce

10 Tips to Enhance Your Writing & Take the Stress Out of Polishing Your Work

Becoming a Productive Writer: Strategies for Success

Plan, Propose & Publish an Edited Book

Manuscript Review in the Humanities: Embrace Criticism and Stand Up for Your Idea

Thriving in Academia: How to Create and Maintain Productive Writing Collaborations

Writing Across the Academic Life-Span

Mentoring Emerging Academic Writers

3 Essential Steps to Breaking Your Writing Block

Jump-Start Your Academic Writing Simple Digital Tools to Grow and Maintain Your Writing Habit

Reaching Your Productivity Peak: Technology Maximizing Your Research and Publishing

Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal: More Than Meets the Eye

"It's All Greek to Me": Translating Statistical Writing

Go Organic! Growing Your Writing Process From Seed to Harvest

How to Write an Introduction That Will Get Your Article Accepted

How to Overcome the Perfectionism, Procrastination & Fatigue That Get in the Way of Your Writing

Principles of Effective Scientific Writing

Publish and Prosper: Strategies for Becoming a More Productive Scholar

Everything You Wanted to Know About Publishing Your Academic Article But Were Afraid to Ask

Confessions of a Reluctant Author: How to Write a Book When You Don’t Like to Write

Confronting the Anxiety of Academic Writing

Pushing Your Writing, Raising Your Profile

The POWER of Writing

Back to the Basics: Crafting the Research Question

How 'Deep Practice' Exercises Can Improve Your Academic Writing

How to Develop a Daily Writing Practice

Writing, Procrastination & Resistance: How to Identify Your Funk and Move Through It

An Academic's Introduction to Trade Book Authorship

Finding Our Shared Humanity in an Academic Writing Community

A Coach's Perspective on Finishing a Dissertation

5 Key Strategies to Boost Writing Power & Productivity

Generating & Refining Research Ideas

Kicking It Out the Door: How to (Finally) Submit Your First Journal Article

Publish & Flourish: Become A Prolific Scholar

Scholarly Publishing: Finding Support Through Peer Mentoring

Scholarly Writing: Strengthening Your Literature Review

Summer Writing 101: How to Avoid the Biggest Mistakes Academic Writers Make During the Summer Term

Academic Publishing

How Do Publishers Evaluate Book Proposals and Query Letters

An Editor's View From Journal Article Submission to Publication

Responding to Reviewers' Comments

A 30-Step Guide to Publishing in Scholarly Journals (Part 1)
A 30-Step Guide to Publishing in Scholarly Journals (Part 2)

Weeding and Harvesting the Most Appropriate Journal for Your Work: Successful Strategies from Novice and Experienced Academic Writers

Ask the Editors: What Publishers Want and Why

Millions of Articles, Thousands of Journals: How an Individual Scholarly Author Can Thrive in Today's Scholarly Publishing Ecosystem

Bingo! It’s a Match! Selecting an Academic Journal for Publication

A Primer on Predatory Open-Access Scholarly Publishers

Kicking It Out the Door: How to (Finally) Submit Your First Journal Article

First-Time Authors: An Inside Look at Journal Publishing

How to Write and Submit a Book Proposal for an Academic Press

Academic Editing

An Editor's View From Journal Article Submission to Publication

Communicating with Editors and Reviewers: Do's and Don'ts

Fresh Eyes: How Working With An Editor Can Improve Your Work

Fine-Tuning Your Work: Writing, Editing & Publication Preparation Skills for Scholarly Authors

Making the Most of the Author-Editor Relationship:  Insights from An Author & Editor

Academic Books

Writing Your First Book: Developing Your Dissertation Into a Manuscript

Plan, Propose & Publish an Edited Book

Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal: More Than Meets the Eye

Confessions of a Reluctant Author: How to Write a Book When You Don’t Like to Write

How to Write and Submit a Book Proposal for an Academic Press

Tips on Getting an Academic Book Published

Publishing with a University Press: A Brief Introduction to Navigating the University Press World in Difficult Times

Grant Writing

Grants 101: The Basics to Getting Your Project Funded

Grant Writing in Non-Research-Intensive Institutions: Tips from a Pro and Lessons from a Rookie

Tips for Writing Successful Grant Proposals

Grants 'Gamesmanship'

How to Seek Funding from State Humanities & Arts Councils

Successful Grant Writing for the National Science Foundation

Time Management & Productivity

Beyond Productivity: How to Build a Joyful Writing Practice

Seven Time Management Strategies to Begin, Keep Working On, and Complete Your Projects

How Trello Can Transform Your Life as an Academic

Juggling Multiple Writing Projects... And Completing ALL of Them

The Academic Juggle: Managing Your Writing in a World of Commitments

Time-Saving Tech Tips: Optimizing Your Production

Becoming a Productive Writer: Strategies for Success

The 10 Habits of Highly Productive Academic Writers

5 Steps to Creating a Publication Strategy

Plan to Write: Organize and Sustain an Academic Life of Predictable, Peaceful Productivity

Leveraging Online Learning Technology & Environments to Benefit Research Group Writing

Get Organized With 'OneNote'

Beyond Just Teambuilding: Sailing Through Effective Collaboration

Go Organic! Growing Your Writing Process From Seed to Harvest

It’s Focus Management, Not Time Management: Strategies and Habits that Lead to Productive Writing

Time Management: Why You Don't Need It, Can't Do It Anyway — And What To Do Instead

Motivational Techniques: Professional Nag Uses Creative and Innovative Tricks, Tools & Techniques to Motivate Authors

Social Media for Academics

Six Strategies for Using Social Media to Promote Your Writing

Blogging to Promote Your Academic Works: Where Do I Start?

Blogging for Academics: A Journalist Turned Academic Offers Tips, Techniques, Inspiration and a Few Warnings

Playing Your Social Media Cards Right: Practical, Effective, and Manageable Tips to Get Noticed Online

Author Blogging: How to Attract Readers

What On Earth Will I Tweet About? Feeling Comfortable with Social Media as an Academic

The Benefits of Blogging  About Your Textbook

Free Publicity: How to Create Podcasts & Digital Audio to Promote Your Book

Using Social Media to Promote Your Writing & Your Personal Brand

How to Create a Blog to Promote Your Academic Work

Tenure & Promotion

Faculty Success: Tenure, Promotion & Merit Demystified

Dissertation Writing

Writing a Dissertation and Beyond: Tips & Tools for Launching and Maintaining Your Academic Writing Productivity

Get Your Stalled Writing Project Back on Track

5 Ways to Use Your Dissertation for Publications

Using Visual Thinking to Enhance Your Writing

'It's All Greek to Me': Translating Statistical Writing

The Art of Revising

Writing With POWER

Track Your Way to Dissertation Success

The Art of Revising