Book Club Scams: Are You Next? Rosemary Sekora is the Marketing and Sales Manager for UNP and has a notes file on her phone filled with book ideas. I am not a published author. I have a masters in English and loved being a part of a Creative Writing program but alas, I have not yet written a book. Although, what’s this in my inbox? “I recently came across…

Received an email from an admiring individual inviting you to their "book club" for an engaging reader discussion? You may be the target of the latest scam in book publishing.

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Cover of Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by Camelia Dewan

The 2025 winner in Environmental Humanities is Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by @cameliadewan.bsky.social (@uwapress.uw.edu, 2021)

Puzzle pieces on a yellow background, with speaker photos. Text reads: Finding the Right Publisher for Your First Book, October 8, 12-1 pm, part of the Ideas on Fire First Book Publishing Series

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October 8: Hear from these 3 acquisition editors at Finding the Right Publisher for Your First Book:
- Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social, @uncpress.bsky.social
- Dominique Moore, @illinoispress.bsky.social
- Mike Baccam @mikebaccam.bsky.social, @uwapress.bsky.social

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Book cover of 'Viable Ecologies: Conservation and Coexistence on the Galápagos Islands' by Paolo Bocci, with a foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan. The image features a lush green agricultural field with a person walking among rows of crops, surrounded by tall banana and corn plants in a tropical setting.

Newly released in our Culture, Place, and Nature series, VIABLE ECOLOGIES by Paolo Bocci explores how humans living amid an abundance of diverse flora and fauna help us rethink conservation.

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Working with Your Editor: Your Relationship with Your Copyeditor | H-Net A guest post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.Guest post by Amy Sherman, managing editor, University of Pittsburgh Press

a blog post I wrote for #FeedingTheElephant about working with your copyeditor, based on my experience as a managing editor and freelance copyeditor. it's written with academic authors in mind; acquiring or managing editors may find it helpful to share with authors to let them know what to expect