By Dr. Noelle Sterne
Q: I How can I stop feeling like I don’t deserve a dissertation or degree?
— Existentially Squirming
A: In tears, my dissertation client Aurora wailed, “Chapter 2 is destroying me! I’ll be in this article gridlock for the next 10 years! I’m just not dissertation material!”
TAA Member Dr. Maureen L. Mackenzie-Ruppel, authored The Fearless Speaker: The Strategic Presenter’s Playbook, published by SophiaOmni on August 5.
The Fearless Speaker delivers a powerful and proven roadmap for mastering public speaking and transforming fear into focused intentional presence.
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How Trump’s Admissions-Data Push Burdened Colleges (September 30, 2026)
It’s your final curtain call to put forward a session for the 2027 Textbook & Academic Authoring Conference in Austin, TX. The deadline is approaching – submit before Friday, October 9, 2026.
By John Bond
“Will a publisher steal my book idea?”
“Will a peer reviewer steal my ideas (data, theory, conclusions, etc.)?
In my Publishing Consulting practice over the last ten years, I get some of the same questions asked over and over again. Common ones are, “Do you know a journal that is interested in my paper on XYZ?” “Do I need an agent to get published?” Or, “Are people still reading books?
Since the claims notices went out at the beginning of September, TAA has been speaking with authors and the claims administrators involved in the Bartz v. Anthropic Settlement to better understand this phase of the process. All claimants, whether “educational” (textbook) or “non-educational” (trade and academic) have received these notices. You need to log in to the portal and confirm or change what is there to have “participated” in this stage of the process and preserve your claims.
