TAA member Dr. Derrick Darden is seeking participants interested in completing a short, 3-minute, anonymous survey for his new book, Understanding Personality Traits and Decision-Making Styles. The purpose of the survey is “to explore people’s personality traits and decision-making styles. Our goal is to gather valuable insights to help individuals better understand their strengths and challenges in making choices and navigating life. Your participation in this survey will contribute to our understanding of human behavior and decision-making processes. Your input is valuable to us, and we appreciate your time and effort in helping us with our research.”
2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book, ‘The Reciprocal Relationship of Culture & Leadership’
The purpose of The Reciprocal Relationship of Culture & Leadership, by Millicent Lindiwe Ndaba, is to demonstrate how culture and leadership interact with each other contextualising this using South African organisations. This seeks to contribute towards building effective global leaders that are in touch with reality. Demonstrating how their behaviour make the families, organisations, societies, countries and the world better places to live/work.
Should You Index Your Own Textbook?
By Ken Saladin
Most authors may not want to index their own textbooks. Indexing has to be done quickly when paginated proofs become available, yet it comes at a time when we’re very busy proofreading the final pages, writing front matter, and getting the book to press. It also must look, to most, like a tedious chore. It may seem better left to a professional indexer, even if the cost is borne by the author.
Even aside from the cost, there are good reasons to leave it to the pros. Indexing is a complex skill that requires understanding of not just the book’s subject matter, but its audience, the publisher’s practices, and the stylistic mechanics of good versus amateurish and dysfunctional indexes.
Submit Your Proposal for the 2025 TAA Virtual Conference Now!
Are you interested in presenting at the 2025 TAA Virtual Conference? Submit your proposal by October 13, 2024, for the chance to share your expertise. Attendees are textbook, academic and aspiring authors, as well as graduate students and industry professionals, all of which are eager to learn and grow in this industry.
The 2025 Textbook & Academic Authoring Conference will be held online June 6-7. We invite presenters, first-time to veteran-level, to submit a proposal.
Curate Your Own Work
By Janet Salmons, Ph.D.
“The past is prologue.” – William Shakespeare in The Tempest
We know how to proof and edit without mercy. We are accustomed to having our writing reviewed by editors and peers. What happens when we take these processes to the next level and initiate a critical review with an eye to a radical update, synthesis, and new publication(s) based on the writing we’ve done throughout our careers? That is the project I am undertaking as a fellow of the Center for Advanced Internet Studies. The concept grew out of a TAA conference session, so I look forward to sharing lessons learned and inviting you to consider curating your work.
3-Minute Guided Meditation After Writing
By Kimine Mayuzumi
Some time ago, I created an audio for guided meditation before writing, and it touched the lives of many, helping them set the right intention for their writing sessions.
Recently, it was a reader’s comment on that guided meditation that inspired me to take a step further. The reader, like many of us, longed for a way to wrap up their writing sessions, to savor what they had achieved, and to quell the constant self-doubt that they hadn’t done enough. They yearned for a moment of closure, a brief yet powerful ritual to honor their efforts and embrace a sense of fulfillment.