Join us for the 2007 TAA Conference at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo in downtown Buffalo, NY, June 22-23

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Preliminary Conference Schedule now available
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Book Raffle
IIL Publishing, New York will raffle four books at the 2007 TAA Conference
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Coming to Buffalo? Put these two books on your reading list
City of Light by Lauren Belfer
Trip to Niagara Falls by Geronimo Stilton (Scholastic)
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Mentoring Sessions
Several veteran authors have agreed to serve as mentors at the conference. Attendees will be able to sign up at the conference registration desk for 15-minute sessions with a mentor. A list of mentors will be available soon.

Roundtable Discussions Luncheon
Saturday, June 23
12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Choose from 10 different moderated roundtable discussions related to textbook and academic authoring.
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Dinner at The Anchor Bar
Thursday, June 21, 6 p.m.
The restaurant where Buffalo-style wings were invented
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Buffalo, NY Waterfront Tour
Friday, June 22, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Take a guided tour of the Buffalo waterfront
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Karpeles Manuscript Musuem and Library Tour
Friday, June 22, 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
View Walt Disney illustrations and documents, among others
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Social Networking Event: A Chartered 3-hour Dinner Cruise Aboard the Grand Lady
Friday, June 22, 6:45 p.m. to 10 p.m.
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Four-hour Guided Tour to Niagara Falls (American side)
Saturday, June 23, 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tour full.
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Free one-on-one sessions with an authoring attorney or literary agent
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Options for Publishing Your Academic Book  

Moderator:
Richard Hull, Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo, and editor of several book series, including Presidential Addresses of the American Philosophical Association

This roundtable discussion will review the various options for publishing an academic book, either a monograph or a collective volume. These range from those provided by so-called "vanity" presses that require either a subvention or a guaranteed number of sales, to those provided by a top academic press such as Oxfurd University Press. Many options fall between, and both types and specific presses will be identified and evaluated.

About the Moderator: 

Richard Hull retired from 30 years with the Philosophy Department at State University of New York at Buffalo in 1997. He has continued to publish, edits several series, and has 13 volumes in print with such presses as Wadsworth, Rodopi, Kluwer, Prometheus, Thoemmes, and AuthorHouse, as well as a self-published e-book. Hull is also Executive Director of TAA and the TAA Foundation.

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