Celebrating 2024's new books

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The Manuscript Works Newsletter

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Dear Reader,

We've finally made it to the last month of 2024, which I think we all deserve to celebrate. I'm particularly happy today to celebrate all the scholarly books released this past year by Manuscript Works clients and readers.

My heart definitely grew several sizes as I scrolled this list of books and thought about alllllll the hard work these authors (and the staff at their publishers) have poured into them. In some cases, when the authors worked with me directly on their manuscripts or book proposals, I got to see the hard work up close. In other cases, my connection was more indirect—maybe I answered a quick question or the writer used tips from The Book Proposal Book or this newsletter to land their contract. Regardless, I'm filled with pride to share these books, and I'm so grateful to all you authors out there who welcome me and my resources into your book-writing lives in any capacity.

Please feel free to scroll the list of books below and click through to find out more about any that interest you (I've included time-sensitive discount codes where applicable too). If you're working on a book of your own, perusing this collection of books is also a great way to stimulate your thinking about your own publishing goals. Consider which covers you find most appealing and what makes them pop for you. Pay attention to which titles and subtitles make you want to learn more about the content within. If you happen to spot a book that makes you nervous because it seems similar to the one you're working on, take a deep breath and read this post.

I hope you find this list as inspiring as I do, and if you're currently working on a scholarly book, I'd love to help you get it published. In next week's newsletter, I'll have all the details about my upcoming Book Proposal Accelerator plus a registration link for my free workshop on January 8th, Land a Scholarly Book Contract in 2025, so stay tuned!

Books released in 2024 by Manuscript Works clients and readers

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Good Guys, Bad Guys: The Perils of Men's Gender Activism, by Emily K. Carian, published by NYU Press. Use discount code NYUP30 for 30% off when purchasing directly from the publisher.

Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India, by Tupur Chatterjee, published by NYU Press. Use discount code NYUP30 for 30% off when purchasing directly from the publisher.

Biennial Boom: Making Contemporary Art Global, by Paloma Checa-Gisermo, published by Duke University Press. Use discount code E24CHGSM for 30% off when purchasing directly from the publisher.

Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles, by Elsa Devienne, published by Oxford University Press.

Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies, by Elisabetta Ferrari, published by University of California Press. Use discount code UCPSAVE30 for 30% off when purchasing directly from the publisher.

Glitchy Vision: A Feminist History of the Social Photo, by Amanda K. Greene, published by MIT Press.

Corpse Crusaders: The Zombie in American Comics, by Chera Kee, published by University of Michigan Press. Use discount code HOLIDAY24 for 50% off when purchasing directly from the publisher.

When the Bombs Stopped: The Legacy of War in Rural Cambodia, by Erin Lin, published by Princeton University Press. Use discount code P325 for 30% off when purchasing directly from the publisher.

"I Grew Up in the Church": How American Evangelical Women Tell Their Stories, by Bethany Ober Mannon, published by Baylor University Press. Use discount code 17FALL24 for 20% off and free shipping when purchasing directly from the publisher.

Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States, by Matthew D. Morrison, published by University of California Press. Use discount code UCPSAVE30 for 30% off when purchasing directly from the publisher.

Project Management for Researchers: A Practical, Stress-Free Guide to Getting Organized, by Shiri Noy, published by University of Michigan Press. Use discount code HOLIDAY24 for 50% off when purchasing directly from the publisher.

Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present, by Eleanor Paynter, published by University of California Press. Use discount code UCPSAVE30 for 30% off when purchasing directly from the publisher.

Networked Poetics: The Digital Turn in Southern African Poetry, by Susanna L. Sacks, published by University of Massachusetts Press.

Just Here for the Comments: Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice, by Gina Sipley, published by Bristol University Press.

Preparing Early Career Teachers to Thrive: Sustaining Purpose, Navigating Tensions, and Cultivating Self-Care, by Kristina Marie Valtierra, published by Teachers College Press.

Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order, by Bilge Yesil, published by University of Illinois Press. Use discount code S24UIP for 30% off when purchasing directly from the publisher.

Games, by Sandra Danilovic, published by Emerald Press.

Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda, by Shakirah E. Hudani, published by University of Chicago Press. Use discount code UCPNEW for 20% off when purchasing directly from the publisher.

Qualitative Pathways for Publication: A Guidebook for Scientists, by Carol Isaac, published by Rowman & Littlefield. Use discount code RLFANDF30 for 30% off when purchasing directly from the publisher.

Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema, by Swapnil Rai, published by Cambridge University Press.

Taming the Octopus: The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation, by Kyle Edward Williams, published by W. W. Norton.

The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema, by Laure Astourian, published by Indiana University Press.

Chinese Workers of the World: Colonialism, Chinese Labor, and the Yunnan-Indochina Railway, by Selda Altan, published by Stanford University Press.

Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists, by Maria Bach, published by Cambridge University Press.

The Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration: New Deal Public Works, Modernization, and Colonial Reform, by Geoff G. Burrows, published by University Press of Florida.

Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures, by Sarah Dimick, published by Columbia University Press. Use discount code CUP20 for 20% off when you purchase directly from the publisher.

Black Feminist Writing: A Practical Guide to Publishing Academic Books, by Stephanie Y. Evans, published by SUNY Press. Use discount code HOLIDAY24 for 50% off when you purchase directly from the publisher.

Sensitive Rhetorics: Academic Freedom and Campus Activism, by Kendall Gerdes, published by University of Pittsburgh Press.

Michigan's Venice: The Transformation of the St. Clair Maritime Landscape, 1640-2000, by Daniel F. Harrison, published by Wayne State University Press.

Higher Expectations: How to Survive Academic, Make it Better for Others, and Transform the University, by Roberta Hawkins and Leslie Kern, published by Between the Lines.

Reimagining Israel and Palestine in Contemporary British and German Culture, by Isabelle Hesse, published by Edinburgh University Press.

Trafficking Rhetoric: Race, Migration, and the Making of Modern-Day Slavery, by Annie Hill, published by Ohio State University Press. Use discount code HILL for 40% off the paperback when you purchase directly from the publisher.

Through a Nuclear Lens: France, Japan, and Cinema from Hiroshima to Fukushima, by Hannah Holtzman, published by SUNY Press. Use discount code HOLIDAY24 for 50% off when you purchase directly from the publisher.

Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy: Beautiful Mechanism, by Meegan Kennedy, published by Oxford University Press.

Not Your Parents' Politics: Understanding Young People's Political Expression on Social Media, by Neta Kligler-Vilenchik and Iona Literat, published by Oxford University Press. Use discount code ASFLYQ6 for 30% off when you purchase directly from the publisher.

Law Democratized: A Blueprint for Solving the Justice Crisis, by Renee Knake Jefferson, published by NYU Press. Use discount code NYUP30 for 30% off when you purchase directly from the publisher.

With Power Comes Responsibility: The Politics of Structural Injustice, by Maeve McKeown, published by Bloomsbury Publishing.

Precarious Domesticity and the British Novel: Space, Gender, and Empire, by Henna Messina, published by Rowman & Littlefield.

Invisibility & Influence: A Literary History of AfroLatinidades, by Regina Marie Mills, published by University of Texas Press. Use discount code UTXGIFTS for 40% off when you purchase directly from the publisher.

Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India, by Darshana Sreedhar Mini, published by University of California Press. Use discount code UCPSAVE30 for 30% off when purchasing directly from the publisher.

New Destinations of Empire: Mobilities, Racial Geographies, and Citizenship in the Transpacific United States, by Emily Mitchell-Eaton, published by University of Georgia Press.

Publishing the DNP Project: An Evidence-Based Approach, by Diane Monsivais, Franchesca Nunez, and Leslie Robbins, published by Cognella Academic Publishing.

Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America, by Rachel Louise Moran, published by University of Chicago Press. Use discount code UCPNEW for 30% off when you purchase directly from the publisher.

Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture, edited by Jonathan Najarian, published by University Press of Mississippi.

Adoption Memoirs: Inside Stories, by Marianne Novy, published by Temple University Press.

Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora, by Sharon M. Quinsaat, published by University of Chicago Press. Use discount code UCPNEW for 30% off when you purchase directly from the publisher.

The Wound and the Stitch: A Genealogy of the Female Body from Medieval Iberia to SoCal Chicanx Art, by Loretta Victoria Ramirez, published by Penn State University Press. Use discount code NR24 for 30% off when purchasing directly from the publisher.

Digital Culture and the U.S.-Mexico Border: Rhetorics on Human Mobility, edited by Rubria Rocha de Luna and Maricruz Castro Ricalde, published by Routledge.

Breathing Hearts: Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany, by Nasima Selim, published by Berghahn Books. Use discount code BERGHAHN30 for 30% off when purchasing directly from the publisher.

Temples of Luxury, Volume II, edited by Lise Shapiro Sanders and Susanne Schmidt, published by Routledge.

All Y'All: Queering Southernness in US Fiction, 1980-2020, by Heidi Siegrist, published by University of North Carolina Press. Use discount code 01UNCP30 for 30% off at checkout when purchasing directly from the publisher.

No One Can Arrest Our Dreams: Black Men Storying a Path Toward Educational Justice and Freedom, by Clarice O. Thomas, published by Routledge.

Sins of Christendom: Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Evangelicalism, by Nathaniel Wiewora, published by University of Illinois Press. Use discount code S24UIP for 30% off when purchasing directly from the publisher.

This newsletter is coming to you from Laura Portwood-Stacer, PhD, professional developmental editor and publishing consultant. I help scholarly writers navigate the book publishing process with more ease and agency.

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The Manuscript Works Newsletter

Celebrating 2024's new books

The Manuscript Works Newsletter

Essential knowledge on scholarly book publishing that every author should have

Books released in 2024 by Manuscript Works clients and readers

This newsletter is coming to you from Laura Portwood-Stacer, PhD, professional developmental editor and publishing consultant. I help scholarly writers navigate the book publishing process with more ease and agency.

Coming up at Manuscript Works

Course

Book Proposal Shortcut for Busy Scholars

Course

Developmental Editing for Academics

Course

Book Proposal Accelerator

More free resources for academic authors

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Personalized support

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