By Stephanie Summerhays, Senior Production Editor at UC Press Whoever coined the old adage about a picture being worth a thousand words clearly wasn’t in the business of bookmaking. When it comes …
Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy (the first original form of American popular music) and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of …
Copyright and fair use are not subjects that rivet a lot of people, but it’s necessary that an author planning to publish their work understands the fundamentals of both.
On March 8, 2024, the Rutgers Digital Ethnography Working Group welcomed University of California Press Senior Editor, Michelle Lipinski, for the online event Demystifying Dissertation-to-Book. This talk breaks down the steps and the often winding pathways scholars can take …
Watch Parts 1 and 2 of our EA Roundtable. As an author, you might have a sense of what an Acquisitions Editor does, since you’ve been talking with them about your new …
In this video, Stephanie Summerhays, senior production editor and FirstGen Program Committee member, discusses the role of the production editor in turning a manuscript into a book and the people authors will work with throughout the process.
As an author, you might have a sense of what an Acquisitions Editor does, since you’ve been talking with them about your new book proposal. But what do Editorial Assistants (EA) do …
We’re thrilled to announce our new Co-Opting AI Book series, helmed by series editor Mona Sloane! Co-Opting AI will be a new series of compact books for readers to better understand the …