All my academic clients are interested in communicating complexity. In some cases, authors are researching and writing about a complex social problem like poverty or housing insecurity. Others are exploring a new idea…
You may find yourself confronting the reality that your editor has left the University Press you're working with. This can be a particularly crushing revelation if you liked working with them! Remember that…
In the classic Monty Python sketch Argument Clinic, a man played by Michael Palin approaches a receptionist and says "I'd like to buy an argument." After paying for it and entering the next…
While still in graduate school, after reading a book of mutual interest, I turned to my mentor and asked his opinion of it. He said that he thought the material was good. However,…
Academic authors I work with don't write stereotypical academic books. They want to avoid writing what I call “bricks"—academic tomes with an obtuse argument written for a small set of insiders. Bricks tend…