Book Author Help

Help for Book Authors

Are you writing a book based (at least 50%) on your dissertation and/or other writing, such as conference papers or articles?
Are you in the humanities or qualitative social sciences?
Would you like a set of practical, detailed exercises to guide you through the process of assessing what you have and making plans to turn it into a cohesive, argument-driven book?

If you answered "yes," consider signing up for the Dissertation-to-Book Boot Camp--an online curriculum designed for authors like you!

Learn more!

The Dissertation-to-Book Boot Camp is the brainchild of my friend and colleague Katelyn Knox of the University of Central Arkansas. I've helped her develop and run it since 2019. I've coached many authors through the curriculum, and I've heard over and over that it's tremendously valuable. In the course of the exercises, our authors pin down their most important arguments, assess the fit between the book's corpus and its claims, explain how each chapter advances the book's main claims, evaluate what changes from chapter to chapter, produce a "book narrative" that they can draw on for the book proposal, and much more.

The boot camp is self-paced. However, I'm available to provide feedback at key points in the curriculum and to meet with you afterward to debrief and make plans for future work. Contact me to learn more.