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Sessions
Academic
Track
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Margaret
Fisher Dalrymple
Richard
Hull
Paul
Siegel
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Milking
That Dissertation: Insights From An Acquisitions Editor
Friday,
June 20, 4 to 5 p.m.
Copper Room
Presenter: Margaret
Fisher Dalrymple, Acquisitions Editor, University of Nevada Press
Panelists: Richard T. Hull, TAA Executive Director, and
Professor Emeritus, University of Buffalo; Paul Siegel, Professor
of Communication at the University of Hartford, and TAA Vice President/President-Elect
Margaret
Fisher Dalrymple, an acquisitions editor from the University of
Nevada Press, will discuss the ways academic presses seek out
manuscripts to support their publishing programs. She will suggest
strategies that will help writers turn a dissertation or thesis
into a publishable work, including making decisions about publication
in a scholarly journal or with an academic press, and about determining
the audience for any work and shaping a manuscript to meet the
needs of that audience. She will also help writers identify potential
publishers and give tips about contacting them In addition, she
will discuss the important partnership between an author and an
editor and outline the referee process that is part of the acquisitions
process at most scholarly presses and journals.
About the
Presenters/Panelists:
Margaret
Fisher Dalrymple is currently a part-time acquisitions
editor for the University of Nevada Press. She has worked
in the publishing industry for over 25 years as a freelance fact-checker
and translator; as a manuscript editor, acquisitions editor, editor-in-chief,
and assistant director at Louisiana State University Press; and
as editor-in-chief, acting director, and assistant director at
the University of Nevada Press. She has acquired books in many
disciplines, including history, literary criticism, creative nonfiction,
natural sciences, fiction, poetry, and politics. In addition to
her work with the University of Nevada Press, she serves as a
freelance publishing consultant for university presses, trade
publishers, and private clients. She lives in Reno, Nevada.
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.
Paul Siegel
has published dozens of law review articles and essays in journals
of communication and sociology, and has been associate editor
of the Free Speech Yearbook for over twenty years. In this presentation
he will recount how a lesson he learned from the very first journal
editor to ever publish his work has stood him well in his work
as an editor and manuscript reviewer. Siegel never published his
dissertation as a book, but one specific chapter of it opened
up for him a second career as a guest lecturer, and begat 4 journal
articles and 5 book chapters over a span of 20 years. He will
rush through for us the whole Old Testament littany.
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