As a TAA member, you become part of a diverse community of textbook and academic authors with similar interests and goals. Each new member enriches the community experience by expanding its breadth of knowledge and creating more opportunities for networking and collaboration.
Discover all of the member resources available to you to help you navigate your path to writing success
Browse a list of academic coaches, editors, consultants, intellectual property attorneys, indexers, accountants and tax advisors, and more, offering discounted rates exclusively to TAA members.
Accomplish your academic writing goals by focusing on two areas of academic writing that many authors tend to struggle with - isolation and accountability – with TAA’s new Month of Motivation program, offered each year in February, April, July, September, and November. Open to members only.
Flex your writing muscles in the TAA Writing Gym. This 6-week work-out-on-your-own gym time will serve as your writing accountability partner as you work to achieve your writing goals. The gym is open to those writing textbooks, scholarly journal articles, and dissertations. Sign up for the October Gym. Open to members only
Are you an industry professional (e.g., editor, publisher, consultant, indexer, textbook illustrator, writing coach, etc.) seeking to reach our audience of textbook and academic authors? If so, learn more about how TAA membership can benefit you, or join here.
Member Categories | Dues
Membership dues are paid on an annual basis. Your renewal date is one year from your join date. We are now offering an Automatic Membership Renew option for some dues categories. Learn more
Graduate Student | $25 Emeritus Member | $35 (Authors who are retired from teaching and are no longer writing or revising.) Untenured Faculty or Textbook Author with Royalties Under $5,000/yr | $50 Tenured Faculty or Textbook Author with Royalties Above $5,000/yr | $100 Industry Professional | $90 (e.g., editor, publisher, consultant, indexer, textbook illustrator, writing coach, etc.)Join here
TAA's chapter program provides colleges and universities an efficient and cost effective way to extend their faculty development programs by offering TAA's extensive membership benefits to their faculty. Chapters benefit from a reduced annual dues rate, annual chapter grants of up to $500, two complimentary annual conference registrations, a starter mini resource library that grows each year, and all the benefits of a TAA membership. For more information about starting a TAA Chapter, visit the Chapter page or contact Maureen Foerster, Director of Institutional Memberships & Meetings at [email protected]
