‘How to Get Your Book Published’ event to highlight tips, tricks and best practices

First-time authors often describe academic publishing as a “black box.” Justin Race, director of Purdue University Press, and Michael Smith, a Purdue history professor and a seasoned author, will help demystify the academic publishing process and provide insights for faculty and graduate students looking to publish their work during “How to Get Your Book Published: Tips, Tricks and Best Practices in Publishing” on Nov. 28.

The event, which is free and open to the public, will be from 10-11 a.m. ET in Stewart Center, Room 202. Registration is available online.

Attendees will learn about:

• Choosing the right publisher
• Crafting a compelling book proposal
• Preparing for peer review
• Successful book promotion

A Q&A session also will be held during the event.

As director of Purdue University Press, Race oversees a publishing program of 25 new books and 16 journals each year in addition to heading the scholarly publishing services division. Before joining Purdue, he was director of the University of Nevada Press. Race got his start in 2010 as an acquisitions editor with Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group. In his 13-year career, Race has acquired books in a multitude of fields, from fiction and memoir to engineering and astronautics.

Smith is professor of history at Purdue, where he has taught Russian history and aerospace history since 1996. He also is the author of several academic works, including his most recent book “The Rocket Lab: Maurice Zucrow, Purdue University and America’s Race to Space.”