For those who published a book in 2022

Hi Manuscript Workers,

Today’s newsletter is a quick one to make an announcement and ask you a question. Let’s do the question first:

Would you like to be featured in my year-end round-up of scholarly books published in 2022?

I did this round-up last year, when I celebrated the books that my clients published in 2021. I am planning to do the same again this year, but I thought I might open it up not just to books I’ve worked on as a developmental editor, but also to books where I played some role in supporting the author to develop a book proposal or navigate the publishing process. This includes anyone who’s been through my Book Proposal Accelerator and Book Proposal Shortcut programs.

If you’ve worked with me in any capacity and would like your book shared with this newsletter’s ~7500 readers in December, please shoot me a quick email! (You can reply directly to this one or use the form on my website.) I’ll just need the link to the publisher’s webpage for your book, and a jpg or png file of your cover would be really helpful.

If we’ve never worked together directly but you’ve found this newsletter or The Book Proposal Book helpful in your journey to getting published, I’d love to feature your book as well. So go ahead and email me too if that’s you! Depending on how many emails I get I may not be able to include photos of everyone’s covers, but I will try.

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Ok, now for the announcement:

I’m offering a free webinar on November 9th on How to Publish a Book from Your Dissertation.

This isn’t exactly a workshop on how to revise your dissertation (though you will probably glean some tips for that along the way). My focus will be on how you can most effectively reframe and describe your dissertation project so that it becomes legible and appealing to book publishers as a book.

The topic was inspired by some of my readers and book proposal clients who are working on revised dissertations and have gotten feedback from publishers that the project still looks too much like a dissertation. My goal with this webinar is to help you think and communicate differently about your book project so that it loses the “dissertation red flags” that sometimes turn publishers off. If that sounds like what you need at this point, please do join me on November 9th!

I’ll say a bit more about the webinar’s content in next week’s newsletter, but if you already know you want to sign up, you can go ahead and do that now.

A recording and transcript will be provided to everyone who registers. You don’t need to attend live in order to access the recording after the fact, but you do need to register in advance.

Please share this newsletter with any friends, colleagues, or mentees who might be interested in the webinar, and I hope to see you soon!