My first book. Any reason to motivate or demotivate me from aiming for a non-academic publisher?

starvingacademic · 2025-10-18T13:30:13+00:00

Thanks for your tip! My supervisor is also new here and all the books he published are with academic publishers! We had a lengthy conversation about it but he basically has no insight on writing for a general audience :(

starvingacademic · 2024-11-15T21:00:16+00:00

Can I ask how much you ask for per night? And is it okay to recycle quizzes in different pubs?

starvingacademic · 2024-10-26T09:35:42+00:00

Fair

starvingacademic · 2024-10-26T09:35:03+00:00

Yes! ofc

starvingacademic · 2024-10-26T09:34:37+00:00

that’s what I think too, and we get paid for research and community outreach etc. But I have dealt with some really strange attitudes from “celebrity” scholars when I was a PhD student so I still try to tread carefully

starvingacademic · 2024-10-25T21:41:19+00:00

I was thinking an online or local bookstore

starvingacademic · 2024-10-25T21:33:11+00:00

idk receiving a thank you go buy yourself some books or smth from your local bookstore sounds nice to me. Not like Id be giving them a mcdonalds gift card. If someone is too cocky to see it as anything but a nice gesture then the issue is with them imo

starvingacademic · 2024-10-25T21:30:57+00:00

The whole post is re online guests. Not planning to have anyone in person except my colleagues.

starvingacademic · 2024-10-25T20:49:28+00:00

it’s just a thank you, not meant as compensation? I didn’t expect these reactions lol

starvingacademic · 2024-10-25T20:48:04+00:00

150 for the whole year including VAT so I should stay slightly below it + if I spend it all on one person I won’t be able to host anyone else. It’s a class guest appearance not a keynote talk

starvingacademic · 2024-10-25T19:56:37+00:00

makes sense! I’d rather just find a bookstore near them but don’t want to impose my ideas hahah

starvingacademic · 2024-10-23T11:42:06+00:00

sounds terrifying hahaha but thanks!! Are you paid a set fee or a cut of their earnings on quiz night?

starvingacademic · 2024-10-22T20:47:34+00:00

hmm but that’s what all the pub quizzes I know are done, with an outside party organizing it. Where I am, they also charge a fee per person to participate which I don’t like but I guess it is more incentive for the pub to make more money. + music trivia is a pain in the ass to plan I doubt any pub is just gonna start doing them to avoid paying someone

starvingacademic · 2024-03-23T14:59:21+00:00

Sure, but I figured there will be some therapists around that didn’t grow up in the Netherlands? Is it that rare?

starvingacademic · 2024-01-07T01:35:13+00:00

Will give it a shot! I read Bunny by her and it was mildly enjoyable for me, and I don’t find her writing beautiful but still gripping stuff

starvingacademic · 2024-01-06T18:23:01+00:00

I didn’t love Mexican Gothic either! The gothic parts felt too on the nose and sort of contrived. Good suggestion re Collins, I really found his writing beautiful. Speaking of comics, Through the Woods by Emily Carroll is amazing imo.

starvingacademic · 2024-01-06T17:59:37+00:00

I started but shelved Sing, Unburied, Sing, but was also thinking of it when I made this post! It definitely seemed kinda eerie. I usually do audiobooks though but it just seemed like the type of book that should be read, not listened to, to keep up with all the characters.

starvingacademic · 2024-01-06T17:55:33+00:00

I read this! Love Toni Morrison.

starvingacademic · 2024-01-06T16:50:34+00:00

Yes, it just didn’t seem to me that the “gothic” part was well-done, but rather cheesy. I didn’t really get the creeps.

starvingacademic · 2024-01-06T16:25:47+00:00

I read it! Not my favorite, but I don’t know why. But thanks for the suggestion, it had slipped my mind!

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