Special
Convention Update
February
7, 2005
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Meet
One-on-One With an Agent or Veteran Author
TAA will be offering
one-on-one sessions via its "Literary Marketplace" at the TAA Convention
in June. Authors can sign up for a 15-minute session with an authoring
attorney for a review of their existing or new contract; an agent to
review their manuscript; or a veteran author from a publishing company
that might be interested in accepting their book. By appointment or
walk-in. Notify TAAšs home office at TEXT@tampabay.rr.com
if you would like to pre-arrange a meeting for a specific time.
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Step Four to
Becoming a Prolific Scholar
Tara Gray, who will
present her popular writing workshop, "Publish and Flourish: Become
a Prolific Scholar" as a 10-hour pre-conference workshop at the TAA
convention in Las Vegas in June, shares the fourth step in becoming
a more prolific scholar (Gray will be sharing a step in each News Alert
leading up to the convention): Write from the first day of your research
project. "Everybody knows that the literature review-and the research-should
be finished first before 'writing it up.' Everybody is wrong. First,
neither the literature review nor the research is ever finished. And,
if you have thought about your discipline for years, how much is your
thinking going to change by reading one more article or doing one more
day of research? Be writing every day no matter how rough the writing.
It's much better to write from your heart, from what you feel and know,
and leaves blanks to fill in from the literature and the research later.
Each paragraph you write doesn't have to become a paragraph that will
later go into a certain section of your paper such as the introduction
or the literature review or the methods. What you write can just be
your own thinking and musings on the subject. As you write, imagine
you are writing a letter: 'I don't know why I got the results I got
in the lab today. . . Perhaps it was because. . . . No, I don't think
so. I think the reason was. . . . Tomorrow I will try something different.
. . .' The crudest writing about a given idea is superior to the best
thinking precisely BECAUSE it can be saved, reviewed, and revised later.
Write from the very first day of your research project: research as
you write and write as you research."
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Help Us Market
the TAA Convention
We would appreciate
any help you can give us on getting the word out about the convention
to possible attendees (especially if you reside in Nevada). Does your
College have an internal bulletin board or listserv of some type, where
you could post information about the convention (contact your public
affairs or university relations department to find out)? Here is the
copy that you could post:
The Text and Academic
Authors Association (http://www.taaonline.net) is a national organization
committed to the advancement of textbook and academic authoring and
to the creation of quality educational materials at every level. To
these ends, TAA provides assistance to both the published author and
the potentially published author. TAA holds annual conventions for text
and academic authors that feature presentations on various topics including
electronic publishing, ethical issues for authors, contracts and licenses,
website development, marketing your work, repackaging/product development,
managing your royalties, textbook selection process, mergers and acquisitions,
textbook pricing controversy and more! This year's TAA convention will
be held in Las Vegas at the Imperial Palace Hotel, Friday, June 24 and
Saturday, June 25. To register, contact TAA at (727) 563-0020 or TEXT@tampabay.rr.com
Room rates for TAA convention attendees are $85 per night until May
20.
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Advertise in
the Special April Convention Issue
Full page ads in
the print newsletter are $350, half page ads are $275, quarter page
ads are $200 and 1/8 page ads are $150. A business card sized ad is
$45. Special discounts apply for those who advertise in four or more
issues. If you would like to place an ad in the Special April Convention
issue of The Academic Author, or on the TAA website, please contact
TAA's interim advertising manager, Kim Pawlak, at kmpawlak@centurytel.net
or (608) 687-3106. More information about advertising in the print newsletter
or online can be found here.
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Register Now
to Attend TAA Convention in Las Vegas!
TAA is returning
to Las Vegas this year to hold its annual convention. Attending this
year's convention is no gamble, however; new authors will find solid
ideas for getting started in textbook or academic authoring and veterans
will find challenging sessions too! Register for the 2005 TAA convention,
to be held at the Imperial Palace Hotel in Las Vegas, Friday, June 24
and Saturday, June 25. To register, contact TAA at (727) 563-0020 or
TEXT@tampabay.rr.com Room
rates for TAA convention attendees are $85 per night until May 20.
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