I check lj more often than my professional email

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...a sad commentary on the current state of my brain, forsooth. But thank goodness for kayliemalinza who kept me in the loop!

I will say that getting an email which begins:

Fellow Doctor Who scholars,

We have a book deal.

Cambridge Scholars Publishing has accepted my proposal and is in the process of generating and mailing a book contract. So — if you’ve been putting off reworking that conference manuscript, now is the time.

is pretty squeeful. Like. YAY. =D

I've heard mixed things about Cambridge Scholars Press; founded by some scholars at Cambridge, some seem to think it has semi-vanity press associations because of its name; but others seem to think it's simply a young press, trying hard to establish itself in the humanities. But... I checked out their website, and they seem respectable.

Anyway. This means I have to expand that paper, yo. *laughs* I'll just add it to the list! At this rate, I'll sleep when I'm dead.

YAY!

ETA: The abstract for the paper is here, f-locked, if you're interested. The paper's called When Worlds Continue: The Doctor's Adventures in Fandom and Metatextuality.

Comments

[kayliemalinza.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure why I'm laughing right now, but I am. Probably it's because 1) I totally hear you on the LJ-more-than-professionalism-thing (although all my LJ notification go to my professional e-mail, harhar) and 2) I got a shout-out on your journal. Hee. ^_^

Considering that the conference is notoriously uneven (John has a horror story about some poor presenter whose "psychology" paper said, basically, "video games are dumb and kids these days are lazy"), I think "semi-vanity press" is alright, especially since it's not the universal impression. Also, duuuuude. We'll be published. My dad was all like, "This takes care of Christmas next year. We'll just buy a ton of copies!" Which will be weird, frankly, because my Aunt Karen is a Who fan so she'll actually read the thing. ^^

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Hahah. My parents were like, "um.. cool... but what about your dissertation?!"

lol. I prefer your dad's response!

And hey, you gave me a shoutout on your journal! Which is how I found out about the damn thing in the first place. I suck!

Um. re: conference uneven. Yeah. There were even a few Who ones where I was like, um... okay. Aaaaand???

I finally watched the Death of Adric. *sob*

[kayliemalinza.livejournal.com]

Cleverly, I am a bum who is working on nothing else besides this conference paper and fanfic. The key to exceeding expectations is to make them really, really low. ^_^


"um.. okay. Aaaaand???"
I don't remember if you were at that panel or not, but the funniest thing was when one paper put forth a very shallow thesis (Cybermen = terrorists) and didn't expand on it at all, and then the next paper used that thesis as a given and used it to extrapolate various wondrous things. Basically, it did in two paragraphs what the first paper needed ten pages for. Obviously, it was funny in a sort of dark, pathetic way. :/


OMG I NOT, RITE? I've probably seen it twelve times by this point, but I still tear up. It's his faaaaaaace. :(

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Hahahah. I am, OTOH, meant to be doing all sorts of things, and am instead just writing fanfic. *laughs*

I wasn't at that one. But what about the Daleks-music-lips thing, where the guy'd obviously not seen any of the eps where we, you know, actually see the Daleks? D'you think they're invited too???

[kayliemalinza.livejournal.com]

I actually thought the Dalek-music-lips thing was really interesting, and I gave the guy a lot of slack because he admitted up front that the conference paper was essentially a rumination on theories he was building for another, non-DW project. I think it was bad planning that he was on that particular panel, and a better approach would have probably been to include *lots* of different texts, rather than just DW. His main focus was on "voices that are unseen", which happens to include Classic!Who Daleks, rather than DALEKS!! (who happen to have unseen vocal apparati.) Does that make sense? He probably should've applied to a different area, rather than try to squeeze into the DW area.

[verasteine.livejournal.com]

I absolutely adore that book, having heard of it from several people on my flist, and I have to say to all of them: yes, please! I want that book, so I'll cheerlead anyone who'll write for it. I'm not a literary scholar, so I can't write for it, but I applaud anyone who does.

Any chance you can gives us a clue what your paper'll be on?

[rm.livejournal.com]

I think this is unrelated ot the call for papers for the other academic who book thing that is floating around.

[verasteine.livejournal.com]

Ah. Call me dense. My bad.

Does that mean there are two DW books in the process of being written??

[rm.livejournal.com]

This is some sort of compendium of papers from a Doctor Who track at a major conference that Kali presented at, with a proper publisher. She can elaborate, since I, in fact, have no idea.

The other book is soliciting proposals for chapters and comes from a different publisher and has had their RPF out for some time. Both Who, both academic, different sources and focii.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

The other book is soliciting proposals for chapters and comes from a different publisher and has had their RPF out for some time.

You mean CFP, but THIS IS THE BEST TYPO EVER.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I meant RFP actually -- Request for Proposal, but that that may be business speak.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. I was not familiar with the term. Well then, it is only MY BRAIN. D'oh!

[rm.livejournal.com]

In biz it's always RFP, so I've found myself calling CFP's the same, and then I switch a letter and we all go to hell!

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Not dense at all. I was extremely vague. But yes, I think there are two being done =D

The first, that you're referring to I think, is published by the SF journal Foundation, and the book is gonna be called The Unsilent Library (http://www.sf-foundation.org/publications/drwho.html).

This one's also a collection of articles, and it grew out of an area group for a conference done by the journal Film and History and is organized by a filmmaker/prof from Baylor University.

The really funny thing is I was planning on submitting this paper that I'd already written to the first one, but now that the second one has a home... I'm going to have to think of a new topic for that one! *laughs* woe!!

[verasteine.livejournal.com]

Yay! Two books on this subject is so much better than one, and you writing for both is also fab! ::does happy dance:: I so want to have both! And I will cheerlead, should you need the encouragement. Running off to dust off my pompoms now!

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Awwww, thank you. I will definitely be in great need of cheerleading. =D

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Yup! The abstract for the paper is here (http://kalichan.livejournal.com/144519.html); it's f-locked, so if you're logged in, you should be able to read it. The paper's called, When Worlds Continue: The Doctor's Adventures in Fandom and Metatextuality.

As for what I'm gonna submit for the SF Journal one... no bloody idea.

[verasteine.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the linky-link!

[mellacita.livejournal.com]

That's awesome!

As for it being a vanity press, I don't really agree with that. The depth of their titles, at least, suggest something beyond a small cadre of people who can't get published anywhere else. *g* And a quick google of a few of the titles that caught my eye showed that people they publish also are published by Oxford, University of Chicago, etc.

Are their rates and royalty policies consistent with a commercial publishing house?

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And yes, after poking around their website, I tend to agree with you. The royalties and rates seem pretty consistent. So, squee!

[framefolly.livejournal.com]

Whoa! Wow! Congratulations!

When it comes out I'll pimp it in my department and on my flist :) .

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

YAY! *dances* Thank you.