Getting Your Book Published: Publishers’ and Authors’ Perspectives

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This workshop is open to all U-M Faculty. This is a virtual workshop. A Zoom link will be shared with registrants via a Google Calendar invitation closer to the event date. If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]. Please note that any non-U-M faculty registrants may have their registration dropped.

Becoming a published scholarly writer is part of what it means to be a professional academic. However, there are specific skills for the academic author to learn—from proposal to manuscript to first book and on to the books that will follow. This session will focus on the professional publishing knowledge every academic writer needs. Experts in academic publishing will address the key issues, review options and strategies, and field questions. In addition, a LSA faculty member who has recently successfully navigated the publishing process will sit on the panel to share her experience and advice. This workshop is designed primarily for faculty members in “book” fields in the humanities and social sciences, and will focus on individual monographs.

Presenters

Charles Watkinson, Director, University of Michigan Press
Charles Watkinson is Director of University of Michigan Press and past president of the Association of University Presses. He is on the Board of Supervisors of the OAPEN Foundation/DOAB. He has played a foundational in OA initiatives including TOME, Lever Press, Path to Open and the OA Ebook Usage Data Trust. In 2023, U-M Press published 75% of its scholarly frontlist OA without any grant funding via its Fund to Mission program

Anna Bonnell Freidin
Anna Freidin is a historian of the Roman empire. Her research and teaching focus on the history of gender, daily life, science and medicine, and more recently, food cultures in ancient Rome. Her first book, Birthing Romans: Childbearing and its Risks in Imperial Rome (2024), examines how pregnancy and childbirth were understood, experienced, and managed in ancient Rome during the first three centuries of the Common Era. Her second book project, Empire of Bread: Food and Community in Ancient Rome (under advance contract with Princeton University Press), is a social and cultural history of Roman foodways, especially how bread shaped Romans’ daily lives and concepts of material and metaphysical transformation.