The TAA Council announces a call for nominations for two TAA Awards: The Council of Fellows and The Ron Pynn Award. Any TAA member may nominate him or herself or another TAA member for these awards. The deadline for nominations is February 27, 2017.
Call for nominations to the TAA Council
The TAA Governance Committee announces a call for nominations for Vice-President/President-Elect, Treasurer, Secretary, and two Council positions. All nominations must be received by March 1, 2017.
How reporting royalty income affects taxes for authors
It is well established that an author who is engaged in the business of writing for income should report royalty income on Schedule C, not Schedule E. But what about a retired author who no longer is writing but still receives royalties from previous work? Should retired authors report royalty income on Schedule C or E? Or, should a sole-proprietor S corporation that reports royalty income as corporation profits and author wages be used? Each reporting method has tax consequences and legal issues.
Join us 11/18 for the TAA webinar ‘Becoming a Productive Writer: Strategies for Success’
Why does it seem like there’s never enough time to write? One of the key challenges of academic life is balancing the many demands on our time; while writing is generally key to professional success, finding time to write is consistently challenging. Most academics realize that they need to protect their writing time but still struggle to do so. Rather than seeing not-writing as a simple failure, it can be helpful to see it as a reflection of the inherent difficulties of writing and time management.
Join us Friday, November 18 from 12-1 p.m. ET for the TAA webinar, “Becoming a Productive Writer: Strategies for Success,” where presenter Rachael Cayley, who blogs at Explorations of Style and tweets at @explorstyle, will discuss how and why academic writing is so hard and look at some strategies for establishing a productive writing practice.
Download a sample of ‘Writing and Developing Your College Textbook’
Writing and crafting a textbook and attending to authoring tasks is a time-consuming, complex—some would say monumental—project, even harrowing at times. The updated and expanded third edition of Writing and Developing Your College Textbook, will guide you through the nuts and bolts of the textbook development process, and provide essential background information on the changing higher education publishing industry, as well as how to choose a publisher, write a textbook proposal, negotiate a publishing contract, and establish good author-publisher relations.
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