In this video Senior Production Editors Emily Park and Julie Van Pelt talk about the first step in doing that: copyediting, specifically book copyediting. They discuss what it is, what you can expect, and how you and your copyeditor will work together.
Following the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, a brief window of time opened to “take audacious steps to address systemic racial inequality.”
By Stephanie Summerhays, Senior Production Editor at UC PressWhoever coined the old adage about a picture being worth a thousand words clearly wasn’t in the business of bookmaking. When it comes to producing books, even simple art programs require a kind of careful handling that many thousands o
On March 8, 2024, the Rutgers Digital Ethnography Working Group welcomed University of California Press Senior Editor, Michelle Lipinski, for the online event Demystifying Dissertation-to-Book. This talk breaks down the steps and the often winding pathways scholars can take from finishing a diss
Watch Parts 1 and 2 of our EA Roundtable.As an author, you might have a sense of what an Acquisitions Editor does, since you’ve been talking with them about your new book proposal. But what do Editorial Assistants (EA) do and how will you be working with them?In this EA Roundtable video seri
In this video, Stephanie Summerhays, senior production editor and FirstGen Program Committee member, discusses the role of the production editor in turning a manuscript into a book and the people authors will work with throughout the process.
As an author, you might have a sense of what an Acquisitions Editor does, since you’ve been talking with them about your new book proposal. But what do Editorial Assistants (EA) do and how will you be working with them?In this EA Roundtable video series, our Asian and Latin American Studies Edit
We are pleased to introduce the incoming co-editors-in-chief for Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture who will assume their positions in January 2024 after the journal's founding editor-in-chief, Charlene Villaseñor Black, steps down.Mariola Alvarez is a historian of Latin American