- Call for entries for ForeWord's Book of the Year Awards
- 5 textbook authoring time management tips
- Grant writing workshop Oct. 2012
- Featured Member Marsha Huber: Academic author finds balance in her career
- Podcast now available for 'Five Key Strategies to Boost Power and Productivity'
- Podcast now available for 'How to Develop a Daily Writing Practice'
Call for entries for ForeWord's Book of the Year Awards
ForeWord Reviews is seeking entries for its 2011 Book of the Year Awards program. Entries can be any independently published title in any format with a copyright date of 2011. Categories include Adult Fiction, Adult Nonfiction and Children's. Adult Nonfiction includes anthologies, architecture, art, business & economics, education, history, performing arts, philosophy, poetry, political science, psychology, religion, writing and women's issues. A $1,500 cash prize will be awarded to Best Fiction and Best NonFiction entries. Submit your 2011 titles today, the ForeWord's Book of the Year program deadline is January 15, 2012.
5 textbook authoring time management tips
By Dionne Soares Palmer
Good time management skills are crucial for authors. Manage your time well and you can maximize your efficiency, allowing you to meet or beat deadlines and still have time for other activities. Five successful textbook authors share the following time management tips:
- Prioritize writing and other work and life commitments. “Ask yourself: What's most important? If family life ranks highest, then set aside writing in favor of spending time with loved ones. When you return to your desk, you'll focus far more effectively and get more accomplished because you will not be distracted by thoughts of having sacrificed life experiences that are deeply important to you.” —Laura Berk, author of Exploring Lifespan Development
- Set aside a sufficient number of hours per day or week to focus on your writing. “While you're writing, ignore email, Twitter, Facebook, and everything else in the virtual world.” —Steve Barkan, author of Criminology: A Sociological Understanding
- Don’t lose momentum; complete a full draft of any chapter you start writing. When I write a chapter, I have the outline in my mind every morning when I wake, because that’s a time when I can ‘see’ what I’m doing without the distractions that occur throughout the day.” —Jay Coakley, author of Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies
- Agree to specific deadlines for submitting manageable chunks of the manuscript and all the ancillary materials in order to help manage your time. “By doing this, my co-author and I met every deadline, and it certainly put us in a better bargaining position. My co-author and I actually withheld a completed section for three days until an overdue advance check arrived in the mail. It's interesting to note how much more moral authority authors have when they have done all that is expected of them!” —Jay Black, coauthor of Doing Ethics in Media: Theories and Practical Applications
- If your book has exercise material, write out the answers for the answer key or instructor's manual immediately after drafting the exercises. “This way, you will pick up any questions, problems, or exercises that don't work as well as you thought they would, and you can revise them at the easiest, most convenient, time.” —Barbara Clouse, author of Patterns for a Purpose: A Rhetorical Reader
Dionne Soares Palmer is a freelance writer based in northern California.
Grant writing workshop Oct. 2012
The Sisters of the Academy Institute (SOTA) will be holding The Intensive Grantsmanship Workshop in Washington, DC, Oct. 3-6, 2012. Learn more
Featured Member: Marsha Huber
Academic author finds balance in her career
By Dionne Soares Palmer
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Youngstown State University associate professor Marsha Huber has successfully juggled teaching and writing with working with clients as a CPA. She has found that the three complement each other very well. For Huber it is all about balance.
Huber combined her teaching and accounting expertise to author two accounting books. She started her writing career by writing two chapters on accounting systems for the restaurant and auto industries for an accounting encyclopedia, which caught the attention of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). The AICPA approached Huber and asked her to write A CPA's guide to restaurant management strategies: accounting, cost controls, and analysis, which was published in 1996.
In 2000, the AICPA asked Huber to write a new edition of the book. The second edition differs from the first in both scope and purpose, said Huber, essentially making it a different book. “When I wrote the first edition, I hadn’t started my doctoral program,” she said. “But for the second edition, I was working on my Ph.D. so I knew more and had much more to contribute on the subject.”
Huber has also written on accounting education. She examined the strategies she uses to teach on the subject of federal taxation when she wrote Shoeboxes and taxes: Integrated course design unleashes new creativity for a veteran teacher, which appeared in the journal New Directions for Teaching and Learning in 2009. Additional academicarticles have appeared in the Journal of Foodservice Research, Issues in Accounting Education, and the Case Research Journal.
Fortunately for Huber, her teaching, writing, and accounting work load is balanced throughout the year, so she is able to relegate each aspect of her career into a different part of the year. “During the academic year, I focus on my teaching and writing. I usually do my CPA workover spring break and during the summer. My clients go on extension until I have free time after the school year. Also, since I generally do not teach during the summer, that’s when I catch up on my writing.”
For future summer writing projects, Huber plans to focus on her new research area: positive psychology, the study of happiness and well-being.
Dionne Soares Palmer is a freelance writer based in northern California.
Podcast now available for 'Five Key Strategies to Boost Power and Productivity'
Listen to the podcast of the November session by Dannelle Stevens, "Five Key Strategies to Boost Power and Productivity.'
Podcast now available for 'How to Develop a Daily Writing Practice'
Listen to the podcast of the October session by Kerry Ann Rockquemore, "How to Develop a Daily Writing Practice.'
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