Please thank your 2010 TAA Conference Sponsors
sponsor of the Roundtable Discussions Luncheon
sponsor of the Awards Ceremony Luncheon
donated 30 copies of Frank Silverman's Self-Publishing Textbooks and Instructional Materials
donated 30 copies of Writing Your Way to Success: Finding Your Own Voice in Academic Publishing, by Susan M. Drake and Glen A. Jones
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Greetings!
We've added a new service, blogtalkradio's TAA Podcast Series, which will feature 15-minute interviews with authors, editors, publishers, attorneys, and others.
Our first episode will air live on May 11 at 1 p.m. CT. It will feature an interview with Michael Lennie, an attorney and
literary agent
with Lennie Literary
& Authors' Attorney, about how recent and future changes in the
textbook publishing industry, including e-book publishing, could affect
authors.
There's no need to register or download anything. Just go to our page on blogtalkradio on May 11 at 1 p.m. CT and click on the play button to listen. If you can't make it to the live episode, you can listen to the recorded version anytime by visiting our blogtalkradio TAA Podcast Series page.
Sincerely,
Kim
Kim Pawlak
Associate Executive Director
kim.pawlak@taaonline.net
(608) 687-3106
(507) 459-1363 cell
www.TAAonline.net
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TAA announces 2010 Council election results
Mary Kay Switzer has been elected TAA vice president/president-elect. Switzer will serve a two-year term as vice president beginning July 1.
"I am grateful to the members of TAA," said Switzer. "With their support and the TAA Council, TAA will continue to grow and flourish. I feel privileged to represent TAA as the vice president of the TAA Council. And I look forward to serving TAA."
TAA Council member Nancy Volkman has been elected TAA Treasurer. Volkman, an associate professor in the department of landscape architecture and urban planning at Texas A&M University, will serve a two-year term beginning July 1.
"I'm thrilled to be of further service to TAA," said Volkman. "I've enjoyed serving as a TAA Council member for the last three years.
Janet Belsky, professor of psychology at Middle Tennessee State University, and Scott Boyd, an associate professor in the theatre department at Middle Tennessee State University, have been elected to the Council. Belsky and Boyd will serve three-year terms beginning July 1.
"I'm honored to have this opportunity to forward my life's mission and the cause of so many of my peers," said Janet Belsky. "I hope to learn an enormous amount and will work diligently to further the mission of all authors."
Said Boyd: "I am very humbled and honored. I look forward to working with the rest of the Council and constituents of TAA to make it a better organization for everyone."
Read Switzer's message to members
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BOOK REVIEW:
How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing by Paul J. Silvia
Reviewed by Dr. Virginia Cook Tickles
How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic How to Write a Lot, by Paul Silvia  | Writing, by Paul J. Silvia is truly a practical guide to productive academic writing. It provides its readers with useful techniques and tools on how to increase writing productivity.
This book covers the gamut of academic writing by helping its readers understand the importance of scheduling time to write and sticking to it. To do so, Sylvia provides strategies on how to set goals in writing, how to manage multiple writing projects, and how to manage progress. He also offers suggestions on building and embracing writing support groups and the usefulness of these support groups as a means of co-authoring. Of course one cannot approach the concept of how to write a lot, without discussing writing styles. Thus, Sylvia provides valuable information on basic writing principles, strategies for writing well, and tips regarding the writing of articles, manuscripts, books, grant proposals and cover letters.
Read the full review: click here
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Register for the 2010 TAA Conference
Member registration is $250 and non-member registration is $280. One-day member registration is $195 and one-day non-member registration is $225.
Register online today.
Take advantage of the special group rate this year: $200 for members and $230 for non-members per person (minimum group rate is five). Groups must register by mail.
Rooms at the Ramada Mall of America for conference attendees are only $105 per night. Get the special conference rate by calling 1-800-328-1931 or 952-834-3411. Use the group code "TEXTBOOK" when you register. You can also reserve a room online at www.ramadamoa.com/
The conference will feature more than a dozen sessions, a Roundtable Discussions Luncheon, an Awards Ceremony Luncheon honoring TAA's 2010 Textbook Excellence Award and McGuffey Longevity Award winners and this year's Council of Fellows inductee, a Hospitality Networking Hour each night, and mentoring.
Conference sessions will include: - Tax Tips for Authors
- Take the Technological Mystery Tour: Web Resources Authors Can Really Use
- Open Access Electronic Textbooks and Journals
- Google Book Settlement: Where It Stands, What It Means For You
- How Open Licensing Improved Our Textbook and Our Careers
- Getting the Best-Looking Book: Best Production Practices for Authors
- Negotiating Publishing Contracts for Textbooks and Journal Articles
- Finding Images and Media Online: Understand Licensing and Use of the Public Domain
- Should You Write a Textbook? Almost Everything You Need to Know
- Authoring Into Retirement: Too Much Invested to Quit
- Finding Our Shared Humanity in an Academic Writing Community
- Fine-Tuning Your Work: Writing, Editing & Publication Preparation Skills for Scholarly Authors
TAA's 2010 Conference Committee members are Barbara Waxer and Michael Spiegler.
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Krausz awarded $750 TAA Publication Grant
Michael Krausz, professor of philosophy at Bryn Mawr College, Michael Krausz  | has been awarded a $750 grant from to TAA to cover editorial services for his book, Dialogues on Relativism, Absolutism and Beyond: Four Days in India, which will be published by Roman and Littlefield in 2011.
"I'm delighted to have received a TAA Publication Grant," said Krausz."It will allow me to hire an excellent copy editor to polish my manuscript."
TAA members can apply for a Publication Grant of up to $750 to cover the cost of publishing already accepted journal articles, or for the preparation of artwork or other charts, diagrams or images to be included in accepted articles or academic books. (Click for more info on grants)
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Missed a TAA Teleconference? Recordings are available online
Free for members!
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Mid-year TAA Council meeting June 24
The mid-year TAA Council meeting will be held June 24, 2010 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Ramada Mall of America.
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