Terence Smyre and Joel Puchalla form the dyad that is the editorial wing of the University of Nebraska Press’s journals department. Their offices, and hearts, share a common wall—though not a physical coronary septum, which would be weird. They envision … Continue reading Mssgng w/ Jrnls Ed
Terence Smyre and Joel Puchalla form the dyad that is the editorial wing of the University of Nebraska Press’s journals department. Their offices, and hearts, share a common wall—though not a physical coronary septum, which would be weird. They envision … Continue reading Mssgng w/ Jrnls Ed
Last week, UNP’s publicity manager, Rosemary Vestal, and publicist, Kylie Morrison, went to a local fourth grade classroom and donated copies of Pioneer Girl: A True Story of Growing Up on the Prairie by Andrea Warren. They received twenty-four beautiful … Continue reading NEWS AND REVIEWS – Fourth Grade Edition
You would not believe how many people it takes to get a book or journal on the shelf. UNP is made up of authors, translators, editors, distributors, marketers, managers, assistants, coordinators, designers, sales representatives, and so many more. And let’s … Continue reading Our 2014: A Year in Retrospective
Ann Baker is the manager of EDP (Editorial, Design, and Production) and it has taken her more than twenty years of professional copyediting to overcome her own personal fear of the semi-colon. Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines the semicolon as “a punctuation mark used chiefly in a coordinating function between major sentence elements (as independent clauses of a compound sentence).” The Copyeditor’s Handbook explains that sometimes a semicolon serves as a “weak period” that joins independent clauses more closely together than a period would, and at other times it functions as a “strong comma” that separates syntactical elements more definitively than … Continue reading The Misunderstood Semicolon: Stop or Pause? Joined or Not?
Kylie Morrison-Sloat is publicity assistant in the marketing department. There was a great sense of community earlier this week as more than forty people gathered to celebrate the launch of Steve Sieberson’s book, The Naked Mountaineer. Each person who arrived … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: Naked Mountaineer Launch Party
The last time I was in Chicago, my favorite store was American Girl Place. So when I found out my AAUP residency application was approved I was excited to see the city again, this time without my Samantha but with a new job title and eagerness to learn how the University of Chicago Press varied from UNP. My initial intentions when applying for the AAUP Residency Program centered on the growing importance of social media in business practices. I wanted to gain a better understanding of university press publishing as well as network with a university press with the prestige … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: AAUP Residency, Chicago Edition
Rob Buchanan is the sales coordinator in the marketing department. For the last couple of years I have gone on a fishing trip to Lake of the Woods in northern Minnesota the week of Labor Day. My friends and I … Continue reading People Make Publishing: Pear cake, anyone?
Erica Corwin is the Electronic Marketing Coordinator at UNP. I wanted to pass along great pictures as a follow up to my Hanging Basket Grow Kit post but unfortunately the seeds barely sprouted and the squirrels helped themselves to the growing … Continue reading People Make Publishing: Recipes from the Good Ol’ Days
This past weekend, I was enjoying my Sunday routine of relaxation and watching the latest television series from FX, The Strain. While I do thoroughly enjoy the vampire/zombie/apocalyptic mashup, some of the characters’ backgrounds feel a little forced. For example, Kevin Durand’s character, Vasiliy Fet, is a second generation Russian living in Brooklyn, NY. His occupation: exterminator for the NYC Bureau of Pest Control. Of course, like any good Russian rat-killer, viewers of the show find out that he has a difficult past with his father, a scholar of architecture. For you see, Fet had a scholarship to get his … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: Watching FX No Strain on University Presses
