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

[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.