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Upwards of 90 percent of submissions never make it past the proposal stage, according to Sisler, and most that make it on to the next stage have been actively solicited by editors. “The majority of things we publish don’t come in over the transom,” he says. “The value of an acquisitions editor is in her or his contacts...
...vast majority of top universities require young scholars in the humanities to have published before they are granted tenure-track jobs. “That means, almost always, getting a book published by a university press,” Greenblatt says. “So obviously university presses are to a considerable degree participating in the tenure process whether they fully acknowledge they are doing that or not.” And many of the manuscripts HUP reviews have tenure application written all over them. “A lot of books that we publish, the author is either...
...necessity of saying no 10 times out of 11. “It’s certainly in mind that it’s important to these young scholars, to assistant professors to Ph.D.’s on the job markets, that a prestigious press would publish their book,” McDermott says. “That cannot, of course, be the first and only reason to publish the work...
...were lawn furniture, graced the cover of Action Comics No. 1. Superman was the creation of Cleveland teenagers Jerry Siegel (writer) and Joe Shuster (illustrator). They envisioned him in 1932 and for six fruitless years tried to get him into print. In early 1938, comics publisher Max Gaines (whose son Bill would publish Tales from the Crypt and Mad in the '50s) recommended the lads to DC Comics. Finally someone said yes. From that first issue, the character was fully formed: he could "hurdle a 20-story building ... run faster than an express train ..." and still, as Clark Kent, never...
Warren said the group is currently supporting two bills in the state House of Representatives. One bill would allow mental health rehabilitation for prisoners who attempt suicide or self-mutilation rather than extending their prison sentences, he said. The other would require the state Department of Corrections to publish statistics on how many prisoners eventually return to prison following their initial release, according to Warren...