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Sign up for a 15-minute mentoring session with a veteran author

Several veteran authors have volunteered to provide free 15-minute mentoring sessions to attendees during the 2008 TAA Conference. All conference registrants will receive an email containing a list of mentors and their available days/times for mentoring. Mentoring must be set up prior to the conference. The deadline for signing up for a mentoring session is June 9.

Mentors:

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.

"I am willing to mentor on philosophy, including philosophy for children, undergraduate and graduate philosophy courses, and on editing collective volumes of papers from conferences."

Mike Sullivan is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Chicago State University where he taught for 34 years before retiring a few years ago. Sullivan has been writing math texts for over 30 years. He currently has 15 books in print: three Precalculus series with Prentice-Hall and one Business series with John Wiley. Sullivan is a member of the Council of Fellows of TAA and has been awarded a Texty and a McGuffey award for two of his books. He is currently Treasurer of the TAA Foundation and the Immediate Past President of TAA.

"I am willing to mentor on general issues for authors and higher education mathematics authoring."

Mary Ellen Lepionka is a writer, presenter, and publisher of professional resources for academic authors and editors. She conducts seminars and workshops in academic authoring and higher education publishing. Her background includes classroom teaching, research, and curriculum development in the social sciences at the postsecondary and secondary levels. She taught at Boston University and Northeastern University, for example, and was a doctoral candidate in cultural anthropology at the University of British Columbia. In her long career in educational publishing, in-house and as a consultant, Mary Ellen has worked on more than 80 textbook manuscripts, including 28 first editions. Her clients have included Prentice-Hall, Allyn and Bacon, Houghton Mifflin, McGraw-Hill, John Wiley & Sons, Sage, and others, as well as corporate clients. Mary Ellen is the author of two books on developing college textbooks and supplements and as Atlantic Path Publishing—which she founded in 2003 in Gloucester, MA--publishes other titles in her field as well. She presently is engaged n developing online courses and researching alternative publishing models for the Digital Age.

"I am willing to mentor on writing a textbook prospectus; finding the right publisher; the publishing cycle and process; constructing chapter outlines and text headings; developing textbook apparatus and pedagogy; working with co-authors and editors; breathing new life into an older revised edition; other."

Karen Morris, a past president of TAA, is a Distinguished Professor and teaches various law courses at Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York. She is also an elected judge. She writes textbooks in Business Law, Hotel and Restaurant Law, and Criminal Law. She pens a column for Hotel and Motel Management entitled, "Legally Speaking". She also writes occasional newspaper commentaries on various legal issues for a variety of periodicals. Karen graduated from St. John's Law School and received an LL.M. from New York University.

"I am willing to mentor on co-authors (I have had five co-authors on four books); relations with publishers; work habits necessary to survive book writing; preparing and writing subsequent editions."

Kevin Patton is a founding Professor of Life Science at St. Charles Community College and recently retired from the faculty St. Louis University Medical School. He is also the founding Director of HAPS Institute, a graduate biology program sponsored by the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS).

He has published many editions of several textbooks, lab manuals, and reference books in human anatomy and physiology, including McGuffey winners Structure and Function of the Body and Anthony's Textbook of Anatomy and Physiology. He joined a successful author team at the beginning of his authoring career, has published solo works, and now is working as a lead author on several revisions and new projects. He is currently on a one year sabbatical to work on a new title.

"I am willing to mentor on revision planning; revision execution; coauthorship; joining an established book team; general textbook authoring issues; writing textbook ancillaries; use of graphics/illustrations; writing style; science textbook writing; breaking into textbook writing.

Fred Kleiner, recently elected to the TAA Council, is Professor of Art History and Archaeology and Chair of the Art History Department of Boston University, where he has taught since 1978. Prior to that, he was a member of the faculty of the University of Virginia and a postdoctoral fellow at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Kleiner has won Boston University's Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching as well as the College Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising. The author of scores of peer-reviewed monographs and articles on Greek and Roman art, architecture, and numismatics, Kleiner also wrote the 2007 Texty Award-winning A History of Roman Art and co-author of the 2001 Texty and McGuffey Award-winning Art through the Ages. From 1985 to 1998, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology.

"I am willing to mentor on writing proposals for new textbooks; working with editors, marketing managers, and sales representatives; securing permission to reproduce photographs; and other general issues in textbook publishing; as well as on writing articles for peer-reviewed academic journals, about which I will also be speaking on a panel on Friday afternoon."

Andy Johnson is Professor of Holistic Education and Chair of the Department of Special Education at Minnesota State University, Mankato. He has taught courses in educational psychology, literacy, and action research since 1996. He is the author of eight books and more than 40 articles, book chapters, and monographs. His latest book, Teaching Reading and Writing: Research-Based Strategies for Teachers, Tutors, Parents, and Paraprofessionals is published by Rowman and Littlefield and will be available in September.

"I am willing to mentor on the process of academic writing; writing and submitting journal articles; revising journal articles - listening to reviewers; ideas for writing books and journal articles; how to write a book proposal; how to write an article for an academic journal; writing as a professor - a harmonic convergence - (finding the balance)."

Laura Taalman is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at James Madison University. She received her Ph.D in mathematics from Duke University, and did her undergraduate work at the University of Chicago. Her research includes singular algebraic geometry, knot theory, and the mathematics of puzzles. Laura is the author of a textbook that combines calculus, pre-calculus, and algebra into one course, and one of the organizers of the Shenandoah Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics (SUMS) Conference at JMU. She has received the Trevor Evans Award and the Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching from the Mathematical Association of America, and a Texty Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association. Laura has enjoyed the privilege and survived the experience of working with many co-authors, on projects including a general-interest article, an in-progress calculus textbook, scholarly research articles with colleagues and students, and perhaps most challenging, a Sudoku puzzle book for which the coauthor was none other than her husband.

"I am willing to mentor on working with coauthors; dealing with editor turnover; changing publishers; and using LaTeX, a typesetting program. Math people use it a lot because it can handle equations and symbols, but publishers also often use it. I wrote my Integrated Calculus book in LaTeX and the compositor at the publisher actually used LaTeX too. One thing that is really cool is that you can use LaTeX to generate the index and art manuscript for the book, and have numbering for sections, exercises, references, theorems, etc all handled automatically so if you move things around in the document, everything is automatically reordered and referenced correctly. It's great!"

Frank Wilson received his B.S. and M.S. in mathematics from Brigham Young University. He entered the Air Force as an officer in 1994. During his six years of service in the Air Force, he was stationed in Louisiana, Arizona, and Colorado. His last assignment was teaching cadets mathematics at the US Air Force Academy. In 2000, he departed the Air Force and accepted a fulltime teaching position at Green River Community College in Auburn, WA. In 2005, he accepted his current position as residential faculty at Chandler Gilbert Community College. In 2007, Frank received a TEXTY award for his book Finite Mathematics and Applied Calculus. On the lighter side, Frank's children's picture book, Measure Up! A Bug Contest (2003), was a hit among kids and their parents. Frank fourth textbook, Applied Calculus, will be published in 2008. Three other textbooks are in development and will be published in 2010.

"I am willing to mentor on the textbook writing process, contract negotiations, working with publishers, getting a manuscript accepted, working with coauthors, etc."

Charles B. "Chuck" Corbin is professor emeritus at Arizona State University where he taught for 25 years. He has authored, co-authored, or edited more than 80 books including Concepts of Physical Fitness,14th ed. (previous winner of McGuffey Award) with McGraw-Hill Higher Education, Fitness for Life, 5th ed. (previous winner of Texty Award) with Human Kinetics and Fitness for Life: Middle School (2008 Texty Award) with Human Kinetics. He has published more than 200 scholarly journal articles and has made scholarly presentations worldwide including numerous named lectures (Cureton, ACSM; Hanna, Sargent, and Distinguished Scholar, NAKPEHE; Prince Phillip, British PEA; and Weiss and Alliance Scholar, AAHPERD). He is past president and Fellow of American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education. Among his awards are the Healthy American Fitness Leaders Award (President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports-PCPFS, National Jaycees), AAHPERD Honor Award, Physical Fitness Council Honor Award, the COPEC Hanson Award, and the Distinguished Service Award of the PCPFS. Dr. Corbin was named the Alliance Scholar by AAHPERD and the Distinguished Scholar of NAKPEHE. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Fitnessgram, was the first chair of the Science Board of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, and was recently elected to the National Association of Sports and Physical Education Hall of Fame.

"I am willing to mentor on health, fitness, wellness, exercise science and physical education authoring, but I would be happy to meet with authors in any area to answer questions about publishing in general. I have been at it since my first book was published in 1968."

Paul Krieger has taught courses in human anatomy and physiology, general biology, and general chemistry to high school and college students in the United States and abroad for more than 20 years. His current position is teaching anatomy & physiology at Grand Rapids Community College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He wrote and illustrated his first book in 2003 entitled A Visual Analogy Guide to Human Anatomy (Morton Publishing Co.). This was followed by a companion book, A Visual Analogy Guide to Human Physiology. To complete the series, his first two books will soon be merged into a third book, A Visual Analogy Guide to Human Anatomy & Physiology. Paul is an active member of many scientific and professional associations including the Human Anatomy & Physiology Society, the Michigan Science Teacher's Association, and the Michigan Community College Biologists. He has successfully presented numerous workshops at the local, state, and national levels on topics such as improving the teaching and learning process. In addition to teaching, Paul is an accomplished artist whose work can be found throughout the Visual Analogy Guides.

"I am willing to mentoring on contract negotiation, meeting deadlines, landing your first book contract, and helping your publisher market your book."

Barbara Waxer is a freelance author and developmental editor of computer software and Internet intellectual property textbooks for the academic and trades markets. Her clients include Cengage /Course Technology and Delmar Learning, Microsoft Press, Perspection Press, Pearson-Prentice Hall, and Sybex Press. Her 2006 text, Internet Surf and Turf: The Essential Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Finding Media, published by Cengage Course Technology, won the Text and Academic Authors Association "Texty" Award and the New England Book Show Award. Waxer also teaches Copyright and Digital Media at Santa Fe Community College and provides training in that topic to college faculty and student bodies around the country. Her current book, Adobe Photoshop Elements, will be published by Course Technology later this year.

"I am willing to mentor on finding media you can use in projects, honing software skills for manuscript preparation, and writing software textbooks: Beta blockers and crash test dummies."

Kenneth Henson has written and co-authored more than 300 national publications. His 40 books include five books on writing for publications and two Phi Delta Kappa fastbacks (monographs) on this topic. His biennial survey results have appeared in every other June issue of the Phi Delta Kappan for over 25 years. Henson has given this workshop on some 300 colleges campuses from coast to coast.

"I am willing to mentor on all aspects of authoring and publishing academic journal articles and books, and grant writing in higher education."