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 to producing books, even simple art programs require a kind of careful handling that many ...
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 from finis...
After the often many-year process of writing your book, submitting the proposal, revising and preparing the manuscript for production, and then working with the copyeditor, you’ll end up with the final, exciting result of all that hard work — the finished, published book!
Yet it’s impo...
The first official event of our FirstGen Program launched on January 21, 2022 and was sponsored by UC Press and the UC Collaborative of Humanities Centers and Institutes.
This webinar was designed to help first-gen scholars learn about the book publishing process. The first section fea...
Book publishing can be an unclear, mysterious process to many scholars, including those who are first in their family to attain a college degree.
In our First-Generation Scholars Book Publishing Survey, we found several ways that the first-gen author experience differed, especially wit...