I check lj more often than my professional email

[fictional]

...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

[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