The Book has gone to the Publisher!!!

[purplecat]

I thought we had hideously missed our deadline, but on review, I think we're only about two and a half years late which is probably good for academic authors.

Part of me thinks that I've spent an awful lot of my life (more or less an hour per working day for the past two years) writing something that barely anyone will read. On the other hand, one doesn't really feel one is a proper academic until one as written a book.

Comments

[adore]

Congratulations, that's wonderful!! I think it'll be resourceful for whoever does read it; the few years I was at university I loved the academic books I read in my field and they really did change me intellectually/perceptually. I know I won't find those books outside of that setting, I won't find them when I walk into a bookstore, but they were valuable.

[purplecat]

This one is quite niche and technical - though I suppose we will get to cite ourselves lots!

[eve11]

congrats!

[liadt]

Congrats!

[sir_guinglain]

Congratulations!

[wellinghall]

Congratulations!

[senmut]

I am so glad to hear it has gone!

[jesuswasbatman]

Congratulations!

[a_cubed]

Most research texts get limited readership. It's the quality of the impact rather than the quantity you should measure.
I've got some very highly cited papers (top one over 1500 according to Google Scholar). My favourite, though, is the one I've had at least three people say "that was a brilliant paper that really helped me/changed the way I think/inspired me to do some other work" type of thing. It's only my 7th most cited paper, but I was really happy with it and the quality of reactions to it has been very helpful in battling my imposter syndrome (which can be particularly bad as my PhD field is not where I've been working for the last fifteen years).
I'm also pleased with a paper I wrote in 2007 that got very few citations in the first few years after publication but from 2015 onwards has been steadily cited and now has over 100 (another 9 last year). That one shows me that my insights were ahead of their time and are still relevant today.

[purplecat]

I'm not sure this is going to change anyone's thinking. It collects together work across a number of papers and then contextualises it with some introductory material at final year undergraduate level, and contains tutorials as appendices. I mean I think it will potentially be a useful resource for us in terms of something to give new PDRAs/PhD Students but I can't see it making waves.

[thisbluespirit]

Well done!!

[daniel-saunders.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

I think the only people who read my Doctor Who were people I've met in person and it might have been easier just to talk to them. I'm still looking for an agent for The Novel...

[purplecat]

Well, TBH, I think the chances of anyone reading this who doesn't work with me or want to work with me are quite low.