Publishing

You can’t know your research is publishable unless you ship it. But even publishing should involve shipping for feedback.

You can’t know your research is publishable unless you ship it. But even as you ship for distribution, you should still ship for feedback.

You can’t know your research is publishable unless you ship it. But you can improve your odds by shipping it for feedback.

To know if your research is publishable, you need to ship it. But if you’re a student, you also might need to wait before you ship.

Sometimes, it can be hard to know whether your research is actually publishable. There are two steps to find out.

You can have two problems creating purple research. Black or brown research might look purple. Or purple research might look black or brown.

Determining whether research is publishable is essentially the same action as seeing whether a cow is purple.

Faith communities can be perfectly valid audiences for your research. And like any audience, that who will naturally shape your what.

Once you know who your research is for, you can then determine what it means to create publishable research for them.

If you’re a student, your research isn’t just for your professor because your assignment likely imitates something outside your class.

Clearly understanding what you want in your research is important. Still more foundational, though, is grasping who it’s for.

Your research is worth protecting. Nobody will ever have more incentive to keep it safe than you do. So be sure you have a robust backup plan.

Your research question can be known or unknown by your audience. But they need to have the question before you can answer it.

Purple, or remarkable, research shares some common elements. But it can also have different shades depending on who it’s for.

Seeing how others work can help us hone our own craft. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at Stephen Lawson’s essay in “Scripture First.”

The preorder bonuses for “Scripture First” focus on helping you see behind the scenes of and learn from the process for producing the volume.

The Association of Theological Schools has several helpful webinars archived for new faculty.

From AWOL: Auctor is the postgraduate journal of the Royal Holloway (University of London) Classics department. Our aim is to provide a high quality peer-reviewed journal, where postgraduates at any stage in their career can publish notes or articles pertaining to the classical world. We do not discriminate and so not only welcome submissions in Classical literature, but also from archaeology to reception, and everything in-between. ...

From the Open Journal of Philosophy mailing list: “We sincerely invite you to submit or recommend original research papers.”

According to the New York Times, Random House and Penguin completed their planned merger Monday morning, creating the biggest and most powerful book publisher in the world. The new company, called Penguin Random House, will control more than 25 percent of the trade book market in the United States, giving it unmatched leverage against Amazon.com, a growing force in the industry. ...