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An Early-Career Scholar’s Guide to Peer Review

Learn about the peer review process at academic journals and university presses and how to navigate it successfully.

What Does an Academic Developmental Editor Do?

Learn how an academic developmental editor can help you improve the argument, structure, and organization of your book or article.

How to Find the Right Academic Journal for Your Article

Do You Need an Academic Subject-Matter Expert to Edit Your Article or Book?

Working with an SME developmental editor, copyeditor, or dissertation editor can improve your writing and publication record, but there are downsides as well.

Tips for Writing Your Second Academic Book

Writing alone in the room, without a committee’s voices rattling around in the head, I’ve found the second book has felt much more like it is for me.

How to Give Quality Academic Content Feedback

What does it mean to give good feedback, and what distinguishes the feedback of a professor and a colleague from a developmental editor?

At What Point in Your Writing Process Should You Work with an Editor?

Editors can be helpful at many points in the writing and publication process.

What an Acquisitions Editor Looks for in a Publishable Book

How can you make the best use of your limited time and energy to ensure that your book will make it past an acquisition editor’s email inbox?

Why You Should Hire an Academic Editor

The single most important reason that you should hire an freelance academic editor for your project can be summed up in the definition of the role of an editor: we are here to serve as the reader’s advocate.