In this video, UC Press Marketing Associate and FirstGen Program Committee member Sara Fan interviews Senior Production Editor Stephanie Summerhays and FirstGen Program Committee member on the role of the production editor in turning a manuscript into a book and the people authors work wi...
In one of the first in-depth ethnographic accounts of coastal Fukushima written in English, Nuclear Ghost tells the stories of a diverse group of residents who aspire to live and die well in their now irradiated homes. Their determination to recover their land, cultures, and histories ...
“Behind the Scenes” series uncovers elements of book-making and publishing that make up our industry. Throughout the publishing process, authors may come across industry terms in their conversations with our staff as we work together.
Below are few common publishing terms and their def...
Each June, university presses from all over the world are invited to attend and participate in the annual industry conference of the Association of University Presses. Here, seasoned professionals and those in earlier stages of their career have a chance to share expertise, learn best pra...
“Behind the Scenes” series uncovers elements of book-making and publishing that make up our industry. A book represents a physical object that took the creative labor of a variety of people and processes to bring it into being, or “between covers”, in industry speak.
At UC Press, a tea...
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...
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...
This past year, we began the initial research and discovery phase of developing our FirstGen Scholars Program, an initiative to support and improve the publishing experience for authors who are the first in their family to go to college. We wanted to hear directly from scholars about thei...
In this edition of our UC Press Editor Spotlight Series, we sat down with Editorial Director Kim Robinson to discuss the role of an editorial director, how UC Press is addressing DEI within our editorial strategy, and what kinds of projects she’s interested in for the geography and urban ...