TAA welcomes new Workshop present Vernetta K. Mosely, PhD, a Writing Coach, Editor and Consultant with Cultivate the Writer.
Vernetta offers four 90-minute workshops:
Busy TAA People: Juli Saitz Recommended by Who’s Who in Legal
TAA member Juli Saitz, a Certified Public Accountant at HKA, has received a Recommended ranking by Who’s Who in Legal, which identifies the foremost legal practitioners in multiple areas of business law. WWL says: WWL says; “Juli Saitz is held in high regard for her profound skill when it comes to providing expert testimony in IP-related litigation involving damages and valuation issues.” Congratulations Juli!
Busy TAA People: Jean Murphy Under Contract For First Book
TAA member Jean Derricotte-Murphy, D.Min., Ph.D, is under contract with Cascade Books to publish her first book, A View From the Balcony: Opera Through Womanist Eyes, in early 2024. Excerpted from the book’s abstract: “..this work offers the reader a historical glance at the philosophical and religious underpinnings of systemic racism by presenting a new healing hermeneutic, a Balcony Hermeneutic, from which to view, critique, assess, correct, and reverse the devastating effects Anthropological Poverty has inflicted upon the world.” She will also be presenting the paper “Beloved, Margaret Garner, and the Desperate Flight to Freedom” at the November 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in San Antonio Texas. Congratulations Jean!
Welcome New TAA Members
Welcome to the new members of TAA who have joined us in the past two weeks. With TAA membership, you are not alone. You become part of a diverse community of textbook and academic authors with similar interests and goals. We are so glad to have you.
Adeli Cortez | Pattie Dillon | Gisela Esteva | Gislene Ferreira dos Reis |Ashley Frutos | Belle Fuller | Carla Guice | Robert Manske | Andrea Monteverdi | Terri Peerenboom | Mariah Phillips | Kenny Roberts | Ian Van Deventer | Tashea Walker | Yong Kuk Yu | Kelly Zinn
Busy TAA People: TAA Member Margarita Huerta’s Work Reaches the 1,000 Mark for Citations
TAA member Margarita Huerta, PhD, writer and Founder of Real Academics, reached the 1,000 mark for citations on her Google Scholar profile on August 25, 2023.
Her top three most cited articles (out of 20 articles tracked by Google) include:
- “Graduate students as academic writers: writing anxiety, self-efficacy and emotional intelligence” (2017), M Huerta, P Goodson, M Beigi, D Chlup, Higher Education Research & Development, 36 (4), 716-729. (205 citations)
- “The effect of an instructional intervention on middle school English learners’ science and English reading achievement” (2012), R Lara‐Alecio, F Tong, BJ Irby, C Guerrero, M Huerta, Y Fan, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 49 (8), 987-1011. (184 citations)
- “Connecting literacy and science to increase achievement for English language learners” (2010), M Huerta, J Jackson, Early Childhood Education Journal, 38, 205-211. (62 citations)
To Promote Your Book, Consider a Webinar
In addition to all the social media, a webinar is an excellent promotional tool for your book. Combining PowerPoint slides and audio and posting on your website, YouTube, and the ubiquitous social media, a webinar delivers valuable information and shows you’re the one to deliver more. But you’ve gotta do it well, or people (potential readers/buyers of your book) will click off. As the proud veteran of one webinar (I blush to admit with some excellent feedback), here I share what I learned about designing and delivering an excellent webinar.
For the webinar on my book Trust Your Life: Forgive Yourself and Go After Your Dreams (Unity Books, 2011), I had wonderful help and structure from the publisher’s promotion director. You can achieve similar results alone or with a few seasoned colleagues. In any case, the steps are similar.