Here are the resources for my workshop on Turning Your Thesis into a Monograph.
🎤 You can also hear me talking about publishing your thesis on the PhD Life Raft podcast.
Books 📚
- How to Publish Your PhD by Catherine Pope
- Thinking Like Your Editor – How to Write Serious Nonfiction & Get it Published by Susan Rabiner & Alfred Fortunato - not specifically for academics, but useful for considering your project from the publisher’s perspective.
- Writing Science by Joshua Schimel - despite the title, the excellent advice applies to writers in all disciplines and is also applicable to book proposals.
Websites 🕸️
Open Access
- Knowledge Unlatched - repository of OA books.
- Open Book Publishers - OA publishers
Contractual Support
- Society of Authors – will check contracts
- Textbook and Academic Authors Association – US-centric, but lots of resources and guidance.
Web Presence
- Reclaim Hosting – affordable hosting for academics. Offers WordPress, Omeka, MediaWiki and more.
- Knowledge Commons – not-for-profit alternative to Academia.edu. Also offers free WordPress hosting.
- Omeka – create online exhibitions.
Podcasting
- Pod Academy – directory of research-based podcasts
- H-Podcast – lots of discussion and podcasts in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Publishing support
- Bookvault - publish, print, and sell books globally.
- Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading - directory of qualified editors and proofreaders across many fields.
- Reedsy – marketplace for finding reputable publishing professionals.
- Society of Indexers - find a qualified book indexer, or even train to become an indexer!
- Indexing: A Guide for Academic Authors - comprehensive blog post explaining the process.