Educational Webinars
TAA webinars are one-hour live, interactive sessions that connect you to experts discussing a variety of topics designed especially for textbook and academic authors. Members can also access 250+ presentations on demand.
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2026 Fall Webinar Series
 Date: Friday, October 23, 2 - 4 pm ET
Facilitator: Alison Miller, PhD
Join us for a live coworking session with Alison Miller, PhD, a 25-year dissertation coach and founder of The Academic Writers’ Space and The Dissertation Coach, to experience a new way of working—one that supports both your writing and your well-being.
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 1-2 pm ET
Presenter: Janet Salmons, Free-Range Scholar, Writer, and Coach
Are you trying to reach new readers or cultivate deeper relationships with current readers? Today’s blogs allow you to create double-duty posts that are accessible through a browser and delivered by email to subscribers who opt-in. A strategic decision you’ll need to make: create a standalone blog or set one up on a blog community such as Substack?
In this webinar experienced blogger Janet Salmons will compare and contrast stand-alone and community options. She will walk through basic steps involved with setting up a new blog using paid and fee-based platforms.
Date: Friday, January 22, 11 am - 3 pm ET
Facilitator: Dannelle Stevens, Professor Emerita, Portland State University
Join us for our first virtual writing retreat in the new year of 2027. Facilitated by Dannelle Stevens, we'll learn some tips to be more productive, have accountability and community in a group, and get plenty of much needed writing time.
Dannelle D. Stevens, Ph. D., is a Professor Emerita from Portland State University who has served as a coach, mentor, and writing buddy for faculty for over twenty years. She has presented at numerous national and international conferences to faculty about boosting their writing productivity and their sense of well-being and confidence about writing. Her recent book, Write More, Publish More, Stress Less, (2019, Routledge) offers graduate students and faculty numerous tricks of the trade designed to outfox the expectations of the system and become productive academic authors who know what to do when staring at the blank page. As a mentor, she is a great listener and guide through the winding and sometimes seemingly treacherous path toward success in your academic life.
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Presenter: John Bond, Author, Publishing Consultant
Most scholars and academics have some creative outlet from the heavy intellectual lifting they do during the day. Maybe it’s yoga, or playing music, or scrapbooking. Or it might be writing fiction. Storytelling (of the fictional kind) is an itch many academic authors have thought about or tried.
Publishing Consultant John Bond, after writing seven books on academic writing and publishing, decided to try fiction. He wrote a speculative fiction thriller called To the End of Reckoning (published August 2026). It is traditionally published by Histria Publishing and distributed by Simon & Schuster. He had no agent.
Presenters: Veselina Lambrev, Associate Professor, University of South Florida and Micki Caskey, Professor Emerita, Portland State University
Join Veselina and Micki for an engaging webinar about their new book, Writing as Artistry: EdD Students Learning to Write as Scholarly Practitioners. Designed for EdD students and the faculty who support them, this book reimagines academic writing as a creative, reflective, and practice-centered endeavor. In this session, participants will explore strategies for helping EdD students develop a confident scholarly voice while drawing on the rich professional knowledge and experience they bring to their studies. Veselina and Micki will discuss how scholarly writing can bridge theory and practice, enabling students to produce dissertations and capstone projects that address authentic problems in educational settings.
Presenter: Janet Salmons, Free-Range Scholar, Writer, and Coach
Join scholar, writer and coach Janet Salmons to learn how to better organize all those files you accumulate when working on your writing projects, including how to better label your files, how to determine what to delete and what to keep, and how to turn that unused content into blog posts, articles, and future projects.
Presenter: Robert M. Pesce, Managing Director, CBIZ
Robert M. Pesce, a Managing Director with CBIZ, will share the basic tax information you should know as an author, including:
- What type of entity should you be?
- Are you keeping good records on your business deductions?
- Income from Royalties and other sources
- Qualified Business Income Deduction
- Pass Through Entity Tax
- Tax deductions
- Home Office Deduction
- Self-Employment Tax (“SE Tax”)
- Pension Plans, SEPs, IRAs
- Foreign Tax Credit
 Presenters: Brenda Ulrich, Attorney, Archstone Law; Kim Pawlak, Executive Director, Textbook & Academic Authors Association
Attorney Brenda Ulrich and TAA Executive Director Kim Pawlak share an overview of TAA's new guidance for educational authors whose works are involved in the Bartz v. Anthropic Settlement but who are not eligible for the 50/50 default split, or for non-educational authors who chose to opt out of the 50/50 default split. This webinar covers:
- The steps involved in the post-claims process
- What authors should be aware of when going into the meet and confer process with their publisher and/or other claimants
- Seven contract considerations for the post-claims "meet and confer" process
Note that this webinar is intended to provide general guidance and is not legal advice for any particular claimant.
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Bartz v. Anthropic Settlement
 An Update on the Claims Process for Textbook & Academic Authors (12.10.25)
Presenters: Brenda Ulrich, Attorney, Archstone Law, and Kim Pawlak, Executive Director, Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA)
The official notice with your unique ID in the Bartz v. Anthropic settlement should be arriving near the end of November. Brenda Ulrich and Kim Pawlak share an update on how your unique ID will help you when filing claims, as well as other updates on the claims process and TAA's recommendations for textbook and academic authors whose works are included in the settlement.
Note that this webinar is intended to provide general guidance and is not legal advice for any particular claimant.
Demystifying Course Adoption Email Marketing
 Presenters: Frank T. Rothaermel, Author, Professor, Georgia Tech; Nick Murphy, SVP - Business Development, Sales, Product Management, BMG Solutions, Inc.
A leading reason textbooks fail to get adopted isn’t content; it’s lack of visibility. Even the most innovative, classroom-ready resources can disappear in today’s crowded market if instructors never see them.
That was the challenge facing Frank T. Rothaermel, professor of strategy and innovation at Georgia Tech and author of Strategic Management (McGraw-Hill). Despite strong reviews and classroom-tested content, his book risked being overlooked. Partnering with BMG Solutions, Frank used precise, data-driven email campaigns to put his book directly in front of the right instructors, growing awareness, securing adoptions, and ultimately becoming the #1 best-selling strategy text in the U.S.
In this eye-opening session, Frank joins Nick Murphy, SVP of Business Development, Sales, and Product Management at BMG Solutions, to share the real story of how he bridged the adoption gap and built market leadership.
What you’ll learn:
- The harsh reality: Why “email doesn’t work” is a myth, and how poor targeting, not the channel itself, is the real problem.
- Your opportunity: How independent and publisher-supported authors alike can complement—not compete with—their publisher’s efforts to dramatically extend their book’s reach.
- The proof: Concrete results, including how Frank leveraged MarketPoint campaigns to connect with faculty, drive meaningful adoption growth, and transform visibility into market leadership.
Whether you publish with a major press or independently, this session will give you practical strategies—and a proven example—to help you take a more active role in your book’s success.
 Presenter: Maria Zafonte, Professor of English, Department Chair, Grand Canyon University
As writers and educators, we are always looking for ways to write more effectively and be more productive in our writing. This session seeks to provide an overview of technology tools that can help us to meet our academic writing goals From brainstorming and researching to drafting and editing, this session will explore the gamut of both low tech tools, such as Microsoft Word templates, and high tech AI tools that can help busy professionals at each stage of the academic writing process. If you are embarking on your first academic article or your fiftieth, the tools discussed here can help you supercharge your writing process. Participants will leave with a list of tools that they can try out as they pursue their next writing project.
Presenter: Allison Miller, PhD, 25-year dissertation coach and founder of The Academic Writers’ Space and The Dissertation Coach
Academic life often teaches us to push harder, move faster, and override our needs. But what if real progress comes not from pressure, but from presence? In this session, explore how to create the conditions for immersive contact—the kind of steady, meaningful engagement that helps you actually move your work forward.
Alison will introduce the concepts of Relaxed Productivity and Relaxed Effectiveness, and show how immersive contact—rather than force or frenzy—is what allows for consistent, human-centered progress and productivity.
You’ll learn:
- Six essential conditions that make immersive contact with your work possible
- How to shift out of overwhelm and reconnect with your capacity
- How to build the clarity, structure, and inner steadiness that help you engage deeply and sustainably.
Experience a new way of working—one that supports both your writing and your well-being.
What Textbook & Academic Authors Need to Know About Filing Claims in Bartz v. Anthropic (10.8.25)
 Presenter: Brenda Ulrich, Attorney, Archstone Law
Educational/textbook and university press/academic authors represent almost half of the close to 500,000 works infringed in Bartz v. Anthropic, a landmark copyright infringement case that will award $1.5 billion to authors and publishers whose books were pirated by Anthropic to train its large language models (LLMs). The $1.5 billion settlement will be paid out at the rate of about $3,000 per work infringed. Two separate processes were laid out for these two groups of authors: The court approved 50-50 default splits of the $3,000 amount between authors and publishers of trade and university press works. For textbooks, the court approved a separate claims process to determine how to split between educational/textbook authors and publishers.
Intellectual Property Attorney and TAA Board Member Brenda Ulrich walks you through what textbook and academic authors need to know about filing claims in the settlement and answers common questions TAA has been receiving from authors about the settlement.
Read more about the settlement and use the searchable database to see if your works are included.
Presenter: Brenda Ulrich, Intellectual Property Lawyer, Archstone Law
Under US law, copyright lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years. This means that, by law, your copyrights will outlive you by several decades. When making your estate plan, how can an author best manage their copyrights for their heirs and beneficiaries?
In this webinar, intellectual property lawyer Brenda Ulrich discusses some of these issues, including:
- How should I plan for my copyrights in my estate plan?
- What happens if I DON’T address copyrights in my estate plan?
- Is there a difference in how to handle published vs unpublished copyrighted works?
- What is a “literary executor” or “literary trustee”, and do I need one?
- What about leaving my works to an archive or library?
Presenter: Christine Tulley, Professor of English, Founder and Director of the Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Writing, The University of Findlay
Learn four key strategies for effectively managing and implementing the "revise and resubmit" feedback in academic writing. This session focuses on methods to prioritize and organize reviewer suggestions based on their potential impact on both revision time and manuscript quality. By examining the relationship between effort investment and manuscript improvement, you'll learn a systematic approach to tackling revisions.
Strategies include:
1) creating a feedback matrix to visualize impact versus time investment,
2) developing a tiered response system for addressing critiques,
3) implementing a revision timeline that balances quick wins with more substantial changes, and
4) utilizing technology tools to streamline the revision process.
This approach not only enhances the efficiency of the revision process but also maximizes the overall improvement of the manuscript. These strategies will benefit academic authors across disciplines, providing them with practical tools to navigate the often daunting task of manuscript revision.
Presenter: Dr. Erica Machulak, Founder, Hikma
Marketing doesn’t need to be flashy to be effective. The best marketing plan for your book will build on your strengths, move your work forward, and foster connections with your ideal readers and collaborators. Learn how to align your book marketing strategy with your professional goals so that you can sidestep some of the challenges that many academic authors face come publication day. Erica shares stories and learnings from the launch of her new book, Hustles for Humanists: Build a Business with Purpose (Rutgers University Press, 2025). You will take away:
- A framework to situate your work in context
- Three steps toward a low-key book launch
- A brief exercise to jumpstart your book marketing plan
This session is designed for emerging and established authors with book projects at any stage of development.
Presenter: Christine Tulley, Professor of English, Founder and Director of the Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Writing, The University of Findlay
Most academics will experience rejection at some point during a scholarly writing career. It may take the form of an outright rejection, requiring the project to be submitted somewhere else, or a revise and resubmit, where substantial revisions might be necessary. In this one-hour webinar, learn a series of strategies for navigating rejection news and effective practices for approaching resubmissions of scholarly projects to increase the likelihood of success.
 Presenter: Dr. Donna Elkins, Associate Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness and Professor of Mass Communication at Campbellsville University
A challenge that most writers face at one time or another is the blank page and how to begin their work. Though finding the steps to begin might not be easy, there are ways understanding how your brain works can help you jump that first hurtle.
In this interactive session, you will learn ways to organize your work, trick your mind out of facing the blankness of a new page, and allow yourself to make progress even if it is imperfect. You'll also get to practice six strategies to get your brain working for you and not against you as you start a new writing project or pick up an existing one.
Presenter: Wendi Zimmer, Ph.D, Researcher, Writing Consultant, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
We know we must see ourselves as writers to reach our publishing potential, but our mindset and limiting beliefs often get in the way. Instead, what if we could shift our mindset to show up differently as writers? What if there was a simple, easy, and transformational system that you could implement today? In this webinar, Wendi Zimmer guides you through research-based strategies that will change how you see yourself as a writer (and any other area where you want to be more successful). These strategies are grounded in principles surrounding your mindset, identity, habits, and energy. Believing in yourself is the concept. Wendi's system is the tool.
Presenter: Christina Inge, Harvard University, and Author of Marketing Analytics: A Comprehensive Guide
Tired of feeling overwhelmed by the endless distractions pulling you away from your writing goals? This refreshing take on productivity tailored for the busy academic. Rediscover your focus and develop actionable strategies to finally finish that manuscript, whether you're working on a textbook, research paper, or academic article. Designed with college professors and researchers in mind, you'll learn proven techniques for overcoming writer’s block, managing time effectively, and staying motivated, so you can confidently bring your work across the finish line.
 Presenter: Janet Salmons, PhD, free-range scholar, qualitative methodologist, creative
You want to contribute to your field, but your work is scattered across multiple publications (and buried on your hard drive.) In this webinar Janet Salmons will show steps in the process she is undertaking as a fellow of the Center for Advanced Internet Studies to curate a largebody of work and transform it into a multimedia e-book. She’ll suggest other curatorial approaches such as citation analysis or autoethnographic reflection on your academic writing journey.
In this webinar you will learn how to organize your work, invite feedback, and create new publications. Develop a plan to make your body of work an important foundation that others can build upon!
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