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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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events schedule
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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for info
Click
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• Articles
• Convention Q&A
• Convention Materials
• Photo Gallery
Archive
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Roundtables
Roundtable Discussions
Luncheon
Saturday, June 23
12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
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TAA
Conference Testimonial:
"I
attended the first TAA conference in Las Vegas and was very impressed
with the other attendees. It was enlightening to talk with other
authors, and share our concerns."
— Charles P. "Pat" McKeague, a full time writer
and a part time instructor at Cuesta College, who has published
over 16 textbooks in mathematics, from basic mathematics through
trigonometry
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Choose from 10 different
moderated roundtable discussions related to textbook and academic authoring
(roundtable discussions will be available on a first-come, first-served
basis).
How Roundtable
Discussions will work
Roundtable Discussions will be held in conjunction with a Buffet Lunch
from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 23 at E.B. Green's, a restaurant
located off the Hyatt's lobby (it will be closed to the general public).
Choose the table identified with the Discussion you wish to participate
in. Each table will be set up for 8 people, and one seat at the table
will be reserved for the Moderator. After 30 minutes for lunch, discussions
will begin. At that time, more people can join around the various discussion
tables if they wish.
Roundtable
Discussion Topics & Moderators:
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Writing
Mathematics Textbooks
Moderator:
Mike Sullivan, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Chicago
State University, and author of three precalculus series.
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here for info
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Mike
Sullivan
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Presenting
Publishable Papers
Moderator:
Mary Jo Orzech, PhD., Interim Director of Drake Memorial Library
and Director of Information Technology Support Services at SUNY
Brockport
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Mary
Jo Orzech
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Deciphering
Your Royalty Statement
Moderator:
Paul Rosenzweig, former President of Royalty Review Service,
Inc., representing authors who wanted to confirm the accuracy
of their royalty statements, and a former consultant to the successor
firm, Royalty Review LLC
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here for info
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Paul
Rosenzweig
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Writing
a Textbook
Moderator:
Christopher Stream, Assistant Professor of Public Administration
at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and author of State
and Local Government
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Christopher
Stream
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Getting
to first base: How to pitch your textbook idea to publishers
Moderator:
Janet Belsky, Professor, Psychology, Middle Tennessee State University,
and author of three psychology textbooks
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Janet Belsky
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International
Editions: When Your Textbook Goes Global
Moderator:
Ann McIver McHoes, author of Understanding Operating Systems,
which has been translated into five languages
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here for info
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Ann McIver
McHoes
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Writing
Indexes
Moderator:
Seth Maislin, Freelance Indexer and Consultant, Focus Information
Services, President of the American Society of Indexers
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Seth Maislin
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E-Textbooks:
What Do They Portend for Authors?
Moderators:
Hannah Rubenstein, author of three public speaking textbooks,
and Stephen E. Gillen, Authoring Attorney, Greenbaum Doll
& McDonald
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Hannah
Rubenstein |
Stephen
E. Gillen |
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Authoring
and self-publishing your first textbook
Moderator:
Jan Lyons, Adjunct Professor in Risk Management at Southern Methodist
University in Dallas.
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Jan Lyons |
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
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Richard Hull |
TAA reserves
the right to make changes to the program and speakers or cancel sessions.
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