The following is Lisa S.’s way of saying Happy Friday to all. Working in the journals department, I correspond with a wide range of people from all over the world. […]
Could Iron Man Handle Copyright?
Here’s Heather on creative communication strategies: We journals production editors have noticed how hard it can be to get important information, resources, and instructions to the busy editors and contributors […]
Green Publishing to the Max
In the August 15 Chronicle of Higher Education, we discover that Routledge was really into recycling. Now they’re really into dancing, rhetorically speaking. Imagine cracking open a new book and finding […]
Authors and Book Covers, or You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Today Breanne opens the Pandora’s box known as Book Cover Design. Before a manuscript enters the copyediting queue, I’ll ask authors for their cover art suggestions. While some authors prefer […]
The Virtual Columbian Exposition
Today’s post is from Breanne: The Urban Simulation Team in the School of Arts and Architecture at UCLA employs real-time visual simulation technology to recreate scenes from The World’s Columbian […]
National Book Festival invites Michael Harper
Frost Medal recipient Michael Harper has been invited by the National Endowment for the Arts to participate in the National Book Festival in Washington D.C., on September 27, 2008. His […]
Wanted: Graveyard Support Vampire
Where would we be without IT? I’ll admit to remembering a time Before IT, when youngsters armed with English degrees (ahem) were allowed to scamper in on Saturdays to run […]
Who is up for a UIP radio station?
PW Daily reports this morning that some trade publishers are setting up their own “radio stations” at BlogTalkRadio.com. “HarperCollins and the Hachette Book Group are the latest publishers to set […]
John Hallwas on Chicago Public Radio
On August 6, 2008, Chicago Public Radio’s 848 aired an interview with John Hallwas about his book Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers. “Ed and Lon Maxwell were two […]
Farewell, Rebecca
Friday, August 1, was Managing Editor Rebecca Crist’s last day at the University of Illinois Press. Best wishes. I’ll miss talking with you about local music shows as we pass in the […]
The straight and flat road
Sir Paul was just passing through Springfield, Illinois, over the weekend? […]
Just Landed: New books on soy, cinema studies, and women journalists
A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past week: –Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South by Michelle R. Scott (August 25, […]