{"id":29688,"date":"2014-09-17T12:46:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T17:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=29688"},"modified":"2014-09-17T12:46:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T17:46:50","slug":"oxford-university-press-executive-editor-to-give-talk-on-book-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/09\/oxford-university-press-executive-editor-to-give-talk-on-book-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford University Press executive editor to give talk on book publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ferber-poster.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-29691\" title=\"Ferber Poster\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ferber-poster-655x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Ferber Poster\" width=\"302\" height=\"472\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYou published your first book, but there&#8217;s a part two in there somewhere. You hunker down to tackle that project, but &#8230; you soon discover that writing your second book has its own tricky challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Ferber, executive editor of Oxford University Press, will be on campus Friday, Sept. 19 at 3 p.m. to deliver her talk, &#8220;The Second Book: Advice for publishing monograph No. 2.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s easier to get a second book published &#8211; as you&#8217;ve already established a track record of sorts &#8211; there are unique challenges, says history professor and talk organizer David Schimmelpenninck.<\/p>\n<p>Chief among these are balancing writing with teaching &#8211; many first books are based on dissertations, which doesn&#8217;t require as much time as starting from scratch &#8211; and making sure Book No. 2 is distinct from Book No. 1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very fortunate to have the editor of a leading academic press give us the inside scoop on how to go about publishing the second book,&#8221; says Schimmelpenninck, adding that Ferber&#8217;s talk will include more general publishing information such as how to approach a publisher and how university presses operate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Second Book: Advice for publishing monograph no. 2&#8221; will be held in GL 201 (aka the Aquarium) at 3 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Ferber, executive editor of Oxford University Press, will be on campus Friday, Sept. 19 at 3 p.m. to deliver her talk, &#8220;The Second Book: Advice for publishing monograph No. 2.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[2310,2309,2308,693],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29694,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29688\/revisions\/29694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}