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Hello newsletter reader! I’m glad you’re here. If you haven’t written your first book yet, you may have never encountered an actual book proposal in your life. (Once you publish a scholarly book, you‘ll start getting asked by presses to peer review other people’s proposals, in…

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Hi Manuscript Workers, It’s been a rough week out there. My thoughts go out to those who are grieving and those who don’t feel safe right now. We’ve…

Laura Portwood-Stacer

May 18

Hello Manuscript Workers, Last week’s newsletter took on a few of the persistent myths of scholarly book publishing. I attempted to offer some clarity…

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May 11

On publishing from your dissertation and publishing from outside the academy

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May 4

For the Book Proposal Accelerator

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May 2

Hi Manuscript Workers, The 2022–2023 Book Proposal Accelerator program opens for enrollment this Monday (May 2) at 9am Pacific. That means I will soon…

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Apr 27

And how to avoid it happening to yours

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Apr 20

Hi Manuscript Workers, Have you ever told someone (such as an editor) that you’d send them something by a particular date, and then the date came and…

Laura Portwood-Stacer

Apr 13

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