TAA member William P. Berlinghoff, a retired professor of mathematics at Southern Connecticut State University and Colby College, has coauthored (with…
How to find a co-author to help with the workload on a successful one-author textbook series
Computer science textbook author William Stallings, a 13-time winner of TAA’s Textbook Excellence Award, and five-time winner of TAA’s McGuffey…
When getting rights clearance is tough
We’ve all been there. You have the perfect photo . . . verse . . . song lyrics . . . vignette . . . you name it . . . to open your book or a chapter within it. Having labored long and hard to locate just the thing, you are now certain that nothing else will do. There’s only one problem. It’s not yours and either you can’t determine who owns the rights, or you can’t figure out how to reach them, or they’re dead or out of business, or they won’t answer you.
How to keep your textbook on track during the production stage
Once you have delivered your textbook manuscript to your publisher, the book production process begins. What should you, the author, do after…
Developing a new textbook? Research other textbooks in the field
If you are thinking of writing a textbook, an important step in the process is to research other textbooks in…
TAA Upcoming Fall Webinars for Textbook & Academic Authors
Join us for these 60-minute live, interactive sessions that connect you to experts discussing a variety of topics designed especially…