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What’s in a name?
As I ran my hand down the smooth cover of my book, I saw it for the first time. My middle initial. Only when I held Dreaming of Money in…
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What’s in a name?
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The Kidbiz Test
People with kids in elementary school may be familiar with kidbiz. This platform human interest stories into digestible articles pitched at differentiated reading levels. Students read assigned articles and then…
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The Kidbiz Test
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Whither library books?
The worldwide pandemic has changed our reading habits. Some people have more time to write, and to read. In April, my sister organized a much-needed socially-distanced book club for our…
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Whither library books?
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The Death of Book Exhibits?
What is the cover of a book if not a marketing tool? Whoever claimed that we should not judge a book by its cover has never been to a book…
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The Death of Book Exhibits?
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Why Write a Book? Why, oh why, oh why, oh why?
Why write books? For some tenure-track faculty in the social sciences and humanities, the why of writing a first book is glaringly obvious. To keep our jobs. Publishing a single-authored…
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Why Write a Book? Why, oh why, oh why, oh why?
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The Publishing Pipeline
An early morning email greeted me on the publication of my second book, Pure Land in the Making. The email caught me by surprise. I knew the book would be…
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The Publishing Pipeline
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Resolve and the Second Book
Resolve and the Second Book As we step into the second week of 2021, how many of us have resolved to write more? January shimmers with possibility, a new beginning.…
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Resolve and the Second Book
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Signposting
Allison Truitt is an anthropologist and author. She is on a mission to make her learning curve visible to younger scholars and students who are looking for signposts for their…
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Signposting