2010 TAA Conference on Text and Academic Authoring
Ramada Mall of America Minneapolis, Minnesota
June 24-26, 2010
Friday, June 26, 2008
12:00 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Trinidad
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Working With Editors: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Moderator:
Steven Barkan, Department of Sociology, University of Maine, and the author of five textbooks and one trade book
From the initial submission of a book proposal to the publication of the first and subsequent editions of a textbook, every textbook author works with at least one editor and perhaps several editors. Like people in other occupations, some editors are a pleasure to work with (the "good"), some editors are ineffective and have other faults (the "bad"), and some editors are downright disagreeable (the "ugly"). This roundtable discussion draws on the moderator's experience as a textbook author with several publishers and many editors during the past fifteen years. It will examine the qualities that make an editor good, bad, or ugly and offer suggestions on working with editors with these various qualities. Roundtable participants will be encouraged to discuss their own experiences with editors of various kinds and to provide other participants with advice and suggestions that may help enhance the author-editor relationship.
Steven E. Barkan is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maine, where he has taught since 1979. His teaching and research interests include criminology, sociology of law, and social movements. He is the author of Criminology: A Sociological Understanding, 4th ed. (Prentice Hall, 2009), which received in its third edition the 2006 Textbook Excellence Award ("Texty") from TAA. He has also written Collective Violence, 2nd ed. (with Lynne Snowden; Sloan Publishing, 2008) and is preparing the 4th edition of his Discovering Sociology: Using MicroCase ExplorIt (Wadsworth) and the 2nd editon of Fundamentals of Criminal Justice (with George Bryjak; Jones and Bartlett Publishers). His new text, Law and Society: An Introduction (Prentice Hall) appeared in early 2008, and a trade book, Myths and Realities of Crime and Justice: What Every American Should Know (with George Bryjak; Jones and Bartlett Publishers) appeared in Summer 2008.
