When editors get together, we often talk about process. We ask questions like: What does your onboard process look like? How can you generate metadata that's helpful to clients? Why are projects successful…

It's not you. Academic book conclusions are difficult to write, a difficulty that can be traced to the writing process itself. By the time an author gets to a book's conclusion, they may…

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…