Category: Behind the Scenes
Guest post by Michele Callaghan As an editor, I like words. It is safe to say that I love them. But sometimes there are just too many of them. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Turning perfectly good verbs into nouns just so you can add a preposition, repeating ideas and even…
After more than a decade at the University of Southern California, the editorial offices of the journal American Quarterly recently found a new home at the University of Hawai'i. The transition began almost a year ago, and was recently completed as the editorial teams at USC and Hawai'i worked together on several issues. The journal will…
Guest post by James Martin and James E. Samels One of the many sins an author can commit is to be a "passenger" on the publishing journey of her or his own book. We have heard colleagues admit, "I just write the books; it is their job to sell them." Or, "I just spent three…
Johns Hopkins University Press has appointed Robin W. Coleman as acquisitions editor for public health, global health, and health policy. He will join the Books Division’s editorial department of nine full-time editors and assistants. Coleman will continue to grow a dynamic list that includes top sellers such as Introduction to U.S. Health Policy, Health Disparities…
Guest post by Keith Brock, JHUP Staff After serving just over two years as the chair of the JHUP Diversity Committee, I am still in awe of its existence and accomplishments over such a short period of time. I do not make these statements to applaud my efforts, nor do I intend to be self-deprecating;…
Words matter. But, when it comes to book publishing, so do art and design. During this University Press Week, we chose the theme “Our UP in Pictures” to go behind the scenes and show how the visual elements which accompany an author’s words are selected, shaped, and formed. In Part I of the post, we speak with JHU Press Art Director…
Words matter. But, when it comes to book publishing, so do art and design. During this University Press Week, we chose the theme “Our UP in Pictures” to go behind the scenes and show how the visual elements which accompany an author’s words are selected, shaped, and formed. In Part I of the post, we speak with JHU Press Art Director…
Guest post by Jeremy A. Greene I entered medical school during a strange interlude in the history of drug marketing. Perhaps you also remember those confusing months in 1997, after the FDA issued statements supporting widespread direct-to-consumer promotion of prescription drugs, but before the regulation of these ads had been fully worked out. Pharmaceutical brand…
Guest post by Jeremy A. Greene I entered medical school during a strange interlude in the history of drug marketing. Perhaps you also remember those confusing months in 1997, after the FDA issued statements supporting widespread direct-to-consumer promotion of prescription drugs, but before the regulation of these ads had been fully worked out. Pharmaceutical brand…
Guest post by David R. Shumway My book, Rock Star: The Making of Cultural Icons from Elvis to Springsteen, grew out of two moments of recognition. The first, which I experienced in the 1970s when I briefly wrote record reviews for the Bloomington, Indiana, Herald-Telephone, was that a record’s meaning and significance derived to a major…